News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on Oct. 3, 2017, and concluding on October 4, 2017.
By State Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the administration’s decision to lift Sudan sanctions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: California Man Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Corporate Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Elbert Harris, 57, of Pine Bluff, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud. Harris stole more than $1 million intended to feed children in low income areas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Saguaro National Park Seeks Community Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Julie Ann Turk 46, of Slatington, Pennsylvania was charged in an indictment[1] unsealed this week with one count of bank fraud, one count of bank embezzlement, and three counts of money laundering, announced acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that between January of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old Houston man has been ordered to prison following his convictions of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jason Dion Johnson pleaded guilty April 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Eric Lamont Bates, 20, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court yesterday to one count of aiding and abetting the robbery of a pharmacy in Middletown, Ohio and possessing with the intent to distribute morphine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to more than seven years in prison for three bank robberies in 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brandon Kenon Rogers, 31, of Grand Rapids, with student loan and grant fraud. The grand jury charged Rogers with defrauding the U.S. Department of Education of approximately...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Release Date: October 7, 2017. Contact: Dave Lotz, Cultural Resources Program Manager. Phone: 671-477-7278 ext. 1008. Rehabilitation of Japanese World War II-era Submarine. SUMAY, GUAM - On October 8, rehabilitation on the historic Type C Japanese Midget Submarine located at the T. Stell Newman Visitor...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Great Falls, Va. - The National Park Service proposes increasing entrance fees at both Great Falls Park (Va.) and Great Falls (Md.). This proposal also reinstates a reciprocal agreement, which would allow entry to parks on both sides of the Potomac River by presenting a valid pass or receipt purchased at either park.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Trump Administration announced plans to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive coverage guarantee...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation finalized an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a University of California, Los Angeles, study on landscape resistance and the movement of genes across a distinct range of California tiger salamander populations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Redding Field Office has planned prescribed burning projects for this fall, winter and spring, to improve landscape health, reduce wildfire risk and to remove brush piles remaining from vegetation improvement projects. Burn dates have not been set.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Trump Administration announced plans to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive coverage guarantee...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN BOHANNON, 28, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 160 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Federal charges have been filed against three people after investigators seized 20 pounds of methamphetamine from a house in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore offers family-friendly programming for all ages interested in experiencing the Southern Outer Banks with a knowledgeable Park Ranger. The Autumn program season has begun and runs through Nov. 26, 2017. A variety of programs are offered and are FREE (excluding any applicable ferry fees to the program destination).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Boston - A Massachusetts man was arrested last night on charges that he conducted an extensive cyberstalking campaign against his former roommate, a 24-year-old Massachusetts woman, as well as her friends, family members, and other associates.
