News from October 2017
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently toured EM’s Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site and received updates on deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) of the uranium enrichment process buildings.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Officer Jovany Perez, 34, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment following his conviction for receiving a bribe while a public official.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore -The National Park Service, in collaboration with the Red Cliff Band, Bad River Band and other Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission member Tribes, are planning to conduct a prescribed burn on Stockton Island between October 12th and 31st, if weather conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A lawyer licensed to practice in Illinois has been convicted on federal fraud charges for scheming to provide falsified documents to prevent foreclosure on a nearly $2 million parcel of land in Aurora. The fraud left an elderly couple out of $300,000.

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Ranking Democrats on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Elaine Chao urging immediate action on a stalled rulemaking that would add four prescription opioids to the drug-testing for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARIO HERRERA, a/k/a “Mo," was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and oxycodone. HERRERA pled guilty to one count of narcotics conspiracy on June 2, 2017, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska imposed today’s sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Oct. 10, 2017 - As fall brings cooler temperatures throughout the parks, firefighters are preparing to begin ignitions on the Lost Grove Prescribed Burn as early as Sunday, October 15. The Lost Grove Prescribed Burn unit is located north of Dorst Campground in Sequoia...

By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - More than 40 members of the public attended an EM Richland Operations Office (RL) informational meeting recently on the proposed location, construction, and operation of a dry storage pad for 1,936 cesium and strontium capsules submerged in water at an aging Hanford Site facility.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jeffrey Scott Beard, 37, entered his guilty plea to receiving child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced today that Andrew Ryan Leslie (22, Middleburg) has pleaded guilty to two federal charges that he sexually abused an infant and a toddler, and used them to produce images and videos of child pornography. He faces a mandatory...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - Christopher C. Myers announces that on October 6, 2017, former Cannonball Tribal Councilman ROBERT FOOL BEAR, age 55, was sentenced before Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland on three Counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and one Count of Incest. Fool Bear was sentenced to serve 30 years imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and was further ordered to pay a total of $400 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: On Saturday, Oct. 21, Ozark National Scenic Riverways will host an instructional gigging program at Round Spring in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). The “Gigs and Ghosts" program will begin at 5:00 p.m.on the lower landing at Round Spring. National Park...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Woman Convicted of Stolen ID Refund Fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dennis Lee Artis, of Youngstown, Ohio was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for distributing cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for selling crack cocaine, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, the group responsible for ATM thefts at several Anchorage banks were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.

By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 131,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2017/2018 marketing year.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Forged Prescriptions Using Identity of Duke Neurosurgeon.