News from September 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
Release: LYNCHBURG, Va.-Transportation Security Administration officers prevented a Bedford County, Virginia, man from bringing a loaded handgun on board an airplane at the Lynchburg Regional Airport checkpoint, Tuesday, Sept. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA- On September 5, 2017, James Lee Palmer, a 56 year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Palmer’s term of imprisonment is to be followed by ten years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A 33-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging six defendants with new racketeering predicate acts including assault in aid of racketeering, arson, extortion and unlawful firearms dealing. Five of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Isaiah Johnson, 37, of Dover, New Hampshire, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Following an agreement between Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), today the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held the first of four scheduled hearings on bipartisan steps Congress should take to stabilize the individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Hampshire stockbroker pleaded guilty today for his role in a market manipulation scheme which was actually part of an undercover operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Set Fire to Building, Trapping Two Residents Inside and Injuring Five Firefighters.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
Release: ABILENE, Texas - A temporary TSA Pre✓® application center will be open at Abilene Regional Airport (ABI) from Monday, Sept. 11 - Friday, Sept. 15.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park rangers are partnering with state and federal transportation officials to conduct safety evaluations of commercial vehicles and operators traveling in the park this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Springfield man pleaded guilty today to attempting to entice an eight-year-old minor to engage in sex during his trip to the Philippines in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HARRY DUREN, 74, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: In our everyday lives, pressure can mean a looming work deadline, a final exam, or bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. In scientific terms, pressure is a physical quantity that's important for many things, including car tires, blood circulation and breathing, semiconductor manufacturing of high-speed computer chips, and the weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Jerry Bob Stewart, 50, of Twin Falls, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its third hearing in the committee’s recently announced ‘Powering America ’ series. The ‘Powering America’ series provides members the opportunity to explore the challenges of electricity markets and potentially consider reforms related to the generation, distribution, consumption, and resiliency of electricity.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the unimplemented Inspector General and Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of the SELF DRIVE Act (H.R. 3388):
By EPA Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “EPA Oversight: Unimplemented Inspector General and GAO Recommendations:"
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: A dozen students and a few teachers from the Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School in New York City traveled every day for two weeks to work alongside the maintenance staff of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site to help stabilize and preserve a historic shed building pertaining to Theodore...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: FBI Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team Joins Unsolved Missing Girl Investigation.
