News from September 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that 21 small businesses will receive a total of nearly $3.9 million in grants to support innovative technology development.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 (S. 1141), bipartisan legislation requiring the U.S. to develop a comprehensive strategy to increase and strengthen women’s participation in peace negotiations and conflict prevention.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 (S. 1141 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Elan Nash, 30, of Keams Canyon, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 29 months’ imprisonment, in addition to 8 months’ imprisonment previously served on a related case in the Hopi Tribal Court. Nash had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Access across Canyon Ferry Dam will be closed to all traffic October 3 through October 5, 2017, from 7:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The temporary road closure is due to required maintenance work being conducted on the dam.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Robert Steven Jones, 29, of Anna, Ohio, pleaded guilty to 11 charges involving the sexual exploitation of minors, including an infant and a seven-year-old girl.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 7, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Fire officials are fighting the Winter Valley Fire in Moffat County, Colo. The fire is now estimated at 5,200 acres on BLM and private land, and is actively burning on Cross Mountain. A Type 3 Team is assigned to the fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Pharmacy Manager Pleads Guilty to Illegal Prescription Drug Diversion and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Topeka man who took part in a robbery while wearing a monitoring device was sentenced Monday to 36 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hurricane recovery efforts are now supporting more than a dozen commercial passenger flights per day at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As the agency continues to restore radars, navigational aids and other equipment damaged during ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Bruce Kevin Hawkins, 52, of Desoto, Texas, was sentenced this morning before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to serve 41 months in prison and pay $219,109 in restitution for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that exploited vulnerable homeowners facing foreclosure, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after a judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit from Alaskans seeking to overturn the 2001 national Inventoried Roadless Rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Juneau, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, a federal jury of six women and six men convicted a Juneau man of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Press Briefing for Ashanti Billie. There is a press briefing regarding Ashanti Billie scheduled today, Sept. 25, 2017, at 3 p.m. at the FBI Field Office, 509 Resource Row, Chesapeake. WHAT: Press briefing regarding missing person Ashanti Billie. WHO: Special Agent in Charge Martin Culbreth of FBI...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is seeking answers from Envision Healthcare and its subsidiary EmCare Holdings, Inc. following reports of skyrocketing costs at emergency rooms (ERs) run by EmCare. According...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement after today’s vote on a six-month extension of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Houston, Texas man has admitted to an illegal firearm charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
