News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, P.A. - Last week the National Park Service (NPS) publicly unveiled plans for more than $14 million in improvements to Valley Forge National Historical Park, including a fully-renovated Visitor Center, new exhibits, a new visitor orientation film, and an expanded trail system in the center...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Thursday, April 12, 2018, hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Energy Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRIAN MAXSON, aka “Chin," age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl. MAXSON also pled guilty to one count of conspiring to possess firearms in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Thursday, April 12, 2018, hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Energy Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office today reached an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement with a Hammonton-based gymnastics program to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities in its classes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two one-count indictments today against Samuel Delacruz, 40, of Fresno, charging him with escaping from custody and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled a Boysen Reservoir Water Information Meeting in Worland, Wyoming.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced details for the Thursday, April 12, 2018, hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Energy Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tianna Thompson, age 26, of Washington D.C., pleaded guilty on April 4, 2018, before U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to the charge of providing contraband to an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Defendants Threatened a Brooklyn Doctor and Obtained Fraudulent Prescriptions for More Than 230,000 Oxycodone Pills.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled a Buffalo Bill Reservoir Water Information Meeting in Powell, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Three Orange County men have been charged in a scheme to use the synthetic opioid fentanyl and a similar drug to manufacture and distribute counterfeit pharmaceutical pills designed to look like brand-name oxycodone pills.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Timber harvests, vegetation treatments, and prescribed burns are on the horizon for public lands near Marysville, Mont., actions which are part of a recently-completed environmental analysis by the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today the results of the April 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The co-owner and CEO of TERiX Computer Company, Inc. was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for his role in fraudulently obtaining more than $10 million worth of intellectual property. Bernd D. Appleby, 66, of San Jose, Calif., was sentenced to 24 months in prison and two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - April 5, 2018 - Tad Cummins, 51, of Columbia, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to charges of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual conduct and obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Ramon DeJesus Magana, 40, of Paramont, and Maurilio Serrano-Cardenas, 27, of Fontana, charging them with conspiring and possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Defendants Fired Multiple Shots at Victim.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Four Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General (IG) Arthur Elkins, Jr. today requesting that his office open an investigation focusing on whether EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has misused or abused his position to inappropriately enrich himself or his family members and whether EPA’s political leadership applied political pressure on Agency ethics officials.
