News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY - Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region (LCR) announced on March 23, 2018, that it is requesting proposals to fund cost-share activities in support of its Water Conservation Field Services Program (WCFSP) within the LCR. The LCR grants process is open to enrollment and competition from water...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following a four-day trial before a federal jury convicted three men last week for their roles in a conspiracy to sex traffic underage girls.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) sent a letter to the Linux Foundation requesting more information about the challenges and opportunities faced by the open-source software (OSS) ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A convicted tax offender has been charged again, this time for failing to serve his prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he would reject the current greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that three Mission, South Dakota, men were sentenced on March 19th, and March 21, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Xavier Clyde Mann, of Finksburg, Maryland, has admitted to selling cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States, together with the State of Indiana, announced today that U. S. Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and Indiana law by undertaking substantial measures to improve its wastewater processing monitoring system at its steel manufacturing and finishing facility, known as the Midwest Plant, in Portage, Indiana.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) --- The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct a 200 acre prescribed burn on the Fort Meade Recreation Area near Sturgis in April.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Marlin Russell Derk, age 46, of Sumter, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to distributing child pornography images that had traveled in interstate/foreign commerce by computer, a violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Aurelio Herrera-Mata, age 35, of North Augusta, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Reentry of Removed Aliens, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs, of Columbia, sentenced Herrera to 10 months imprisonment with no supervised release because he is expected to be deported upon completion of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH - Micaha Paul Sneed, aka “Micaha “Mike" McGrath," 40, of Fort Worth, Texas, was last week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to serve 240 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in October 2017 to a felony offense related to elder abuse, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: On Monday, April 2, 2018, three individuals-two of whom reside in Alabama and one who resides in California-were arrested on charges stemming from their involvement in a public corruption scheme, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The Alabama defendants are State Representative Jack...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he would reject the current greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding media reports detailing instances of abuse, neglect, and patient harm at both Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and Nursing Facilities (NFs) participating in Medicare and/or Medicaid.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Three Energy and Commerce Democratic Leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today demanding answers about his troubling Washington, D.C. housing arrangement during a six-month period in 2017 in which he rented a room for $50 a night...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Jamaican national twice deported from the United States today pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence, RI, to making false statements on a United States passport application.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he would reject the current greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Three Energy and Commerce Democratic Leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today demanding answers about his troubling Washington, D.C. housing arrangement during a six-month period in 2017 in which he rented a room for $50 a night...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melissa M. Marangola and Katelyn Hartford, who handled the case, stated that on January 5, 2017, the defendant robbed the Chase Bank. Peeples was tracked by law enforcement to Binghamton, New York where he was arrested approximately 13 hours later. He left approximately $43,000...
