News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: United States Announces Settlement with New York City Board of Elections Resolving Improper Removal of Voters From Registration Rolls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Impersonation Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Rashod Lewis Murdered a Robbery Victim on Webster Avenue in January 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Release Date: Oct. 31, 2017. Contacts: Jake Koch, daniel_koch@nps.gov, 229-924-0343, ext. 201. NR17-06. Rare opportunity to visit Civil War prison site at night. See Confederate guards and Union prisoners by campfire and lantern light. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Join us for a rare chance to experience...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: On Oct. 31, 2017, Robert J. Smith, Jr., 48, Sparta, was sentenced to federal prison for a methamphetamine offense, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, capable of creating more than 1 million new jobs in a year and employing approximately half of the American workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Duval Grant, a/k/a “Val", 25, of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 28 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and distributing heroin, cocaine base, commonly known as crack, and oxycodone.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A new web-based application from the Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste contractor helps employees maintain a strong nuclear safety culture by tracking safety requirements and performing other tasks more efficiently.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Two Southland Retailers also Charged with Illegally Selling Decorative Contact Lenses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The City of Redwood City proposes to extend its existing recycled water distribution system from the Bayfront area of Redwood City into Central Redwood City. This water reuse project creates new, reliable, drought-proof water supplies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 36-year-old man has admitted he kidnapped his minor child from Brownsville and took her to Mexico City, Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) today introduced the Give Assistance and Help to Americans impacted by Natural Disasters Act (“Give A HAND" Act) to provide relief to individuals and businesses to recover in the immediate aftermath of the recent natural disasters and assist the ongoing rebuilding process in communities touch by natural disasters in years past.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with the armed robbery of U.S. Bank.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Project Team concluded startup functional testing of Building 91. The switchgear building provides electrical support to the more than 20 support structures of WTP’s Balance of Facilities. Building 91 was energized earlier this...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI - Jason Thomas Williams of Oktibbeha, MS, and Daniel Wayne Easley of Brandon, MS, both pled guilty to Theft of Government Property and were sentenced to prison, serve probation, and to pay restitution to the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) for a series of thefts that occurred in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia women and a Wallace, West Virginia woman have admitted to their participation in a meth distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Demeko Wells (22, Tampa) to four years and nine months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on July 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Alfredo Padilla, 59, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual exploitation of a minor child, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Padilla was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on May 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Today, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), City of Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and Yonkers Police Commissioner Charles Gardner announced a series of arrests which took place yesterday throughout the City of Yonkers, targeting street...
