News from November 2017
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. ‒ Beginning Nov. 10, the Sierra Soil and Water Conservation District, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management Socorro Field Office, will treat up to approximately 2,400 acres of creosote bush and 840 acres of juniper. Treatments will occur on BLM land within Socorro and Catron counties in southwestern New Mexico where creosote bush and juniper densities have surpassed historic, naturally-occurring levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Nestor Mendez Nolasco, 26, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to one count of illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 27, 2017, Gerardo “Gerry" Garcia (age: 55) of Appleton, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release. On June 16, 2017, Garcia pleaded guilty to assisting in...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: FREDERICK, Md.- To provide for long-term protection and restoration of native vegetation, promote healthy and diverse forests and protect historic landscapes, three Western Maryland national parks are preparing to implement previously approved white-tailed deer management plans this year. The National Park Service (NPS) will donate all suitable meat from reduction activities to local food banks. Last year, more than eight tons of venison were donated to local food banks.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: America is facing enormous challenges. Our national debt exceeds $20 trillion, and there is no serious effort being made - by either party - to significantly reduce the 30-year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed $100 trillion.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation finalized the Finding of No Significant Impact for funding of the proposed culvert replacement project on the Resighini Rancheria. The replacement of culverts on Junior Creek will relieve flooding on Rancheria lands and restore access upstream of the existing failing culverts for the federally threatened Southern Oregon/Northern California Coho salmon.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) released the following statement regarding a provision within...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland, County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing two banks with an accomplice, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on, “MACRA and Alternative Payment Models: Developing Options for Value-based Care:"
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse will be open to the public for a free Winter Climb on Saturday December 9, 2017 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: The collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement under the Detroit One program has led to the investigation and racketeering indictment involving thirteen members of the violent eastside Detroit street gang, Smokecamp, a/k/a Original Paid Bosses (or OPB), Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Pray, MT, formerly of Clearfield, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer, and immediately thereafter was sentenced to five years’ probation and 50 hours of community service for each year of her probation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Armando Moronta pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to bribery, narcotics conspiracy and four counts of sexual abuse of a ward. At the time of the offenses, Moronta was a federal correctional officer employed by the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Metropolitan...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 3989, the USA Liberty Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An illegal alien found in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are south of the crest of the Alaska Range.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Subcommittee on Energy Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of the Hydropower Modernization Act of 2017 (H.R. 3043):
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on, “MACRA and Alternative Payment Models: Developing Options for Value-based Care:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Robby David Haley, 28, and Shawn Michael Hart, 28, both of Washington County, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawful possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Haley and Hart were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on April 11, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: 175 years ago, soldiers established a fort atop a bluff overlooking the Marmaton River. Its purpose was to keep peace on the frontier and to contain westward expansion. To patrol the frontier, the army stationed dragoon and infantry soldiers at Fort Scott. These soldiers faced the challenges of boredom...
