News published on Federal Newswire in October 2017

News from October 2017


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Body of Female Recovered from Kīlauea Crater

News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Park rangers recovered the body of a 63-year-old Kea‘au woman Sunday morning from Kīlauea caldera below Steaming Bluff.


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Fairview, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.


Former D.C. Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Student

News Release: Five-Year Sexual Relationship Began When Victim Was a 14-year Old Student of His.


Texas Man Charged with Armed Bank Robbery

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Justin Wade Lynch, age 44, of Texas, was indicted on Oct. 24, 2017, by a federal grand jury for armed bank robbery. The case was unsealed on Oct. 27, 2017.


Breeding Resistant Chickens for Improved Food Safety

News Release: A new test developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in College Station, Texas, could make it easier to breed pathogen-resistant chickens.


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Michael Glover, a/k/a “Glove," a/k/a “G," a/k/a “HG," age 47, and Jihad Salahadeen Pollard, age 43, both formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court. Glover and Pollard each plead guilty to conspiracy...


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.


News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LOUIS LITVIN, the former chief financial officer of United Realty Management (“URM"), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald to 63 months in prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme to steal more than $1 million from URM.


News Release: MILWAUKEE - The owner of several Milwaukee-area gas stations was charged Tuesday with forced labor involving aggravated sexual abuse, harboring an alien for financial gain, and document servitude.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A tax attorney who represented retired professional football player Antrel Rolle surrendered this morning to federal authorities after being charged with fraudulently claiming refunds for Rolle, stealing those refunds, and then filing false documents with the Internal Revenue Service to cover up his scheme.


News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington, Ky., man has entered a guilty plea to a federal arson charge, which involved a fire at a local business where he had previously been employed.


News Release: Two Wooster men were indicted for distributing heroin and cocaine that resulted in the fatal overdose of a Wayne County woman, law enforcement officials said.


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge for the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, today announced that, on Oct. 18, 2017, a grand jury in New Haven returned seven-count indictment charging the following eight individuals with cocaine trafficking offenses.


News Release: LAS CRUCES, NM: The Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District is sponsoring a photo contest and inviting public land users to submit their favorite photograph(s) of a special landscape, plant, animal or object located on public land. The grand prize winner will receive a 2018 Las Cruces District...


Decatur Man Pleads Guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery, Conspiracy, and Firearms Charges

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Sentencing has been scheduled on Mar. 5, 2018, for Matthew J. Higgins-Vogt, 25, of Decatur, Ill., who today pled guilty to his role in the April 2015, armed robbery of the Circle K convenience store and murder of 19-year-old Paige Mars, also of Decatur.


Taft Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mario Alvarez-Muniz, 49, a citizen of Mexico and former resident of Taft, entered a guilty plea today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


Libyan National Charged With Federal Offenses in 2012 Attack on U.S. Special Mission and Annex in Benghazi

News Release: Libyan National Charged With Federal Offenses in 2012 Attack on U.S. Special Mission and Annex in Benghazi.


News Release: FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Sunrise.