News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - A Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to nearly 3 years (151 months) in prison for conspiring to distribute multiple quantities of narcotics and illegal possessing a 9 mm handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Rodney D. Cydrus, 48, formerly of Chillicothe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in federal prison for mailing threatening letters to federal officials. Cydrus was an inmate at Lebanon Correctional Institution at the time of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Eleven Others Have Been Convicted of Drug Trafficking Charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is partnering with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to test new security technology that can help officials detect whether an individual is concealing an improvised explosive device such as a suicide vest. The testing of the equipment is taking place inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal at select times and locations this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed H.R. 5554, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), into law today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and making threats following a confrontation with law enforcement officers at the Richard Bolling Federal Building.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement after President Trump signed into law H.R. 2345, the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement after President Trump signed into law H.R. 2345, the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Port Angeles, WA- Yesterday evening, a 29-year old woman from Iowa suffered a fatal cardiac arrest while backpacking with family on the Sol Duc River Trail above Deer Lake in Olympic National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Larry O. Douglas, Jr., 45, of Tulsa, to 252 months in prison followed by 60 months of supervised release for Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Conspiracy to Carry, Brandish, and Use a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. Douglas must also pay a special monetary assessment of $200.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Threatened Officers in Confrontation at Bolling Federal Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: For Theft of Firearms, Possession of Firearms by a Felon and Possession of Stolen Firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced today that it has selected its next high-performance computing (HPC) system, which will be used to advance early-stage R&D on energy technologies spanning multiple DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed H.R. 5554, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), into law today.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed H.R. 5554, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), into law today.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Four Energy and Commerce Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today demanding to know when he and his staff learned that the Commission had provided inaccurate information about why its comment system went down during the net neutrality repeal public comment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced AUGUST NETTLES, a 21-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, to 42 months in federal prison following his convictions of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
Release: LOS ANGELES - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has partnered with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to deploy a new advanced portable passenger screening technology that will help detect weapon and explosive device security threats on the county’s transit system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Settlement Is Largest Penalty Imposed On A Single Entity By The Justice Department For Financial Crisis-Era Misconduct.
