News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Effective Oct. 1, Steamtown National Historic Site will no longer charge a park entrance fee. Since 2005, the National Park Service (NPS) charged a $7.00 admission fee for visitors age 16 years and older to the park. After conducting a detailed analysis of costs associated with collecting...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of S. 1827, the Keep Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure (KIDS) Act of 2017. The KIDS Act extends funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years and, over time, transitions CHIP to its traditional federal-state partnership, and provides additional protections for low-income children and flexibility for states.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski might not have its own ghost story, but our island has certainly witnessed its fair share of the macabre. On October 20th and 21st, join park staff for a special ranger-led lantern tour into the darker history of Cockspur Island.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, requesting information on all private, non-commercial, or military flights she has taken since assuming her positon in the White House, including all flights she took with then-Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Thomas E. Price.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance two Department of Energy nominees to the Senate floor:
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Erica L. Morris pleaded guilty to making more than $35,000 in personal purchases on a Covington Housing Authority credit card that had been issued to her for work-related purchases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.- Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Michael J. Soto-Hernandez, 26, a/k/a “Quajo," previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl in Manchester in 2016.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today on CNN, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs, unequivocally called for an independent commission to get to the bottom of the Russian election interference and discussed the detrimental effects of the President’s proposed one-third cut to the Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Retired U.S. Army Colonel Indicted for Conspiring to Bribe Senior Government Officials of the Republic of Haiti.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELLSWORTH ROBERTSON, also known as “S," 37, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a 2008 federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Three defendants associated with a Miami street gang “Boss Life" operating in Miami-Dade County, Florida were sentenced by United States District Judge Federico A. Moreno for their roles in the distribution of firearms and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Warren Laprell, 54, of Palmyra, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone. Laprell pleaded guilty on Jan. 27, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Photographer Kit Frost of Durango, Colorado is October’s Artist in Residence at Mesa Verde National Park. She will offer a free public program, “Artists in Our National Parks" on Friday, October 13 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Far View Lodge Library in the park. Ms. Frost will share a presentation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Six Florida residents have been charged in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Mosa Jamal Almahdi, 26, most recently of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 57 months’ of federal imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker, after his guilty plea to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.- Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Michael J. Soto-Hernandez, 26, a/k/a “Quajo," previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl in Manchester in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jose Serrano Ayuso, 31, and Lilian Zapata, a/k/a Marta Arus, 52, both previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Indictment alleges responsibility for death of Darian Longoria in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an inmate serving a life sentence at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield was convicted by a federal trial jury today of murdering one inmate and attempting to murder another inmate.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 9 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to discuss the U.S. response to Burma’s escalating violence against the Rohingya. The hearing is entitled “The Rohingya Crisis: U.S. Response to the Tragedy in Burma.".
