News from November 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered a statement on the Senate floor this evening on the Senate Republican tax bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - As the opioid epidemic continues to ravage West Virginia communities and families, United States Attorney Bill Powell and community leaders remain steadfast in their commitment to educate students in the Northern District of West Virginia about the dangerous and deadly consequences...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - The Roseburg Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host an open house on Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. The open house is to provide information and solicit ideas from members of the public about the possible recreational uses and opportunities for the former Douglas County...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Neosho, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Harry Larmont McCall, 54, of Hayneville, Alabama was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. McCall was found guilty of the charge after a trial that took place in June 2017. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A longtime fugitive was named today in a nine-count indictment that alleges he participated in a $9 million loan fraud scheme that targeted Wells Fargo Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Christopher Paul Murphy, 68, of Golden Valley, Ariz., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management will host a public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, December 8. The corral is one of three facilities in Nevada that cares for wild horses and burros waiting to be adopted, including nearly 200 wild...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Defendants Threatened and Beat Victim for Operating a Competing Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Arrests resulted from Louisville Metro Intelligence Joint Task Force.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Director McGettigan: I write to request information regarding the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) approval of a request for Ms. Leandra English, a political appointee at OPM during the Obama Administration, to burrow in to a career position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an attempt to divert attention away from their inability to craft and advance legislation that would provide much needed funding to repair our country’s crumbling infrastructure, House Republicans are holding a hearing this morning to blame the National Environmental Policy Act...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles will go into effect Dec. 1 on certain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Junction Field Office to reduce stress on wintering wildlife and prevent road damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to 20 years in prison for the January robbery and hostage-taking at a Tuscaloosa credit union, announced U.S. Attorney Jay Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to 20 years in prison for the January robbery and hostage-taking at a Tuscaloosa credit union, announced U.S. Attorney Jay Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANORIS DELGADO, also known as “Alex," 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to five months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin. Judge Bolden ordered DELGADO to serve the first six months of his supervised release in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 72-year-old resident of Laredo has appeared in court on allegations he possessed more than 100 firearms, even though he was a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, distribution of a controlled substance, and distribution of a controlled substance where children are present.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: On Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, the First Flight Society and the National Park Service (NPS) will continue the tradition of honoring the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the 114th anniversary celebration of the first heavier-than-air, controlled, powered flight. The event takes place at the tent area south of the Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center parking area and park entrance fees will be waived for the day.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today wrote the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking information on whether grant programs targeted for major cuts were used to respond to the recent terrorist attack in New York City in which a vehicle was used to ram into a crowded bicycle lane killing eight people.
