News from April 2018
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology (CAT) Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (D-OR) and CAT Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn today requesting a hearing to review the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The proposed merger, which was announced over the weekend, would have T-Mobile paying approximately $59 billion to purchase Sprint.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore, and Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, today announced federal charges against juvenile detention officer Antwan Lenard...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $19 million to support twelve new cost-shared research projects focused on batteries and vehicle electrification technologies to enable extreme fast charging. Selected research projects are focused on developing electric vehicle systems that can recharge rapidly at high power levels, decreasing typical charge times to 15 minutes or less using a connector or wireless fast charging system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: FBI Memphis Announces Recipient of Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) announced last week that the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Instagram account has won three 2018 Webby Awards. Announced annually since 1996, the Webby Awards are international awards honoring excellence on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Shomari Robinson, 37, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced Friday, April 27, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 96 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Robinson pleaded guilty to this charge on February 9, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park announces that sections of State Route 410 and State Route 123 between the Sunrise Road and the Stevens Canyon Road, to include Cayuse and Chinook passes, will experience a delayed opening as a result of spring snow conditions and a significant construction project. The expected opening of both SR 410 Chinook Pass and SR 123 Cayuse Pass is June 11.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Mark Menezes announced up to $23 million for innovative technologies to reduce capital costs and shorten deployment timelines of marine energy devices.The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Former Arkansas State Senator and Representative Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Bribery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On April 27, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office issued a Decision Record (DR) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) based on analysis provided in the Caliente Herd Area Complex Wild Horse Gather Plan Environmental Assessment (EA). The BLM developed the 10-year gather plan to manage wild horses within the Caliente Complex located in southern Lincoln County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today the appointment of Richard M. Cella as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma. As a Criminal Division AUSA, Mr. Cella will represent the United States of America...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be hosting its popular annual pruning workshop on Friday, May 4 in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Miller farm, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. Turn onto Port Oneida Road, go one mile and turn onto Miller Road, and follow the signs to the workshop site.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced that last Friday, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Otis Hunter to 107 years in prison after a jury found Mr. Hunter guilty of conspiracy to commit robberies, three business robberies, two carjackings, and five counts of brandishing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: A Bedford man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for defrauding banks by creating counterfeit checks.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology (CAT) Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (D-OR) and CAT Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn today requesting a hearing to review the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The proposed merger, which was announced over the weekend, would have T-Mobile paying approximately $59 billion to purchase Sprint.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Students from Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts, won the 2018 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® (NSB) today in Washington, D.C. In the middle school competition, students from Odle Middle School in Bellevue, Washington, took home first place. U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Pollock prisoner from Opelousas was sentenced last week to 12 months and one day in prison for possessing an improvised knife.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kansas man who was caught with crystal methamphetamine and a firearm in Hurricane in November of 2017 pled guilty today to federal drug and gun charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Bunthia Can Thach, 39, entered his guilty pleas to possession with intent to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Join the National Park Service (NPS) and Alhambra High School students for the 2018 Ecopoetry Event. This is the 5th annual ecopoetry event to be held in the historic Victorian home where the celebrated naturalist, John Muir, lived and wrote his books. The event will be on Saturday, May 12, 2018 from 5 PM to 8 PM at the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS), 4202 Alhambra Ave., Martinez, CA.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology (CAT) Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (D-OR) and CAT Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn today requesting a hearing to review the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The proposed merger, which was announced over the weekend, would have T-Mobile paying approximately $59 billion to purchase Sprint.
