News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Eastern States State Office announces a quarterly online oil and gas lease sale to be held Sept. 20, 2018. The sale will include 3,195 acres located in Cleburne and Stone Counties, Arkansas; Muskegon County, Michigan; and Monroe County, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2018
News Release: California Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2018
News Release: Tuolumne Meadows and Tioga Road Remain Open from U.S. 395.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park has temporarily closed Cape Royal Road. Included in this closure are Cape Final Trail, Cliff Spring Trail, the northern section of the Ken Patrick Trail from Point Imperial to Cape Royal Road, and the southern section of the Ken Patrick Trail from Cape Royal Road to the old Bright Angel Trail.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2018
News Release: The Moccasin Mesa Fire was reported by Park Point Lookout on August 4, 2018 at approximately noon. This fire is located on Moccasin Mesa near the southeast boundary of the park. As of the morning of August 5, this fire is approximately 185 acres. Personnel supporting this fire include NPS employees from...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2018
News Release: TALKEETNA, Alaska - A Talkeetna-based flightseeing airplane carrying four passengers crashed in Denali National Park and Preserve at approximately 6 p.m. on August 4. According to satellite information conveyed by the plane’s electronic locator transmitter, the de Havilland Beaver (DHC-2), operated by K2 Aviation, made impact at approximately 10,900 feet elevation on a feature unofficially known as Thunder Mountain.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2018
News Release: On July 23, the Carr Fire started on Hwy 299 inside Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but it likely ignited from a recreational trailer malfunction. Suppression response was immediate, with unified joint command of the National Park Service (NPS) and...
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will appear on CNN’s….
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office is temporarily closing the Cache Creek Management Area, which includes Cowboy Camp, due to the potential risk to public safety from the nearby Mendocino Complex Fire.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2018
News Release: TWIN FALLS, IDAHO - As extreme wildfire conditions increase across Idaho, the Bureau of Land Management mobilized a Wildland Fire Prevention Education Team to enhance ongoing local wildfire outreach prevention efforts. Aug. 3, 2018, the team was tasked to raise awareness of Idaho’s wildfire threat...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Aug. 3, 2018, the Honorable Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Dale Volney Freeman, 45, of Council Bluffs to 120 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Freeman was also ordered to serve seven years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: On Aug. 3, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands to discuss ongoing hurricane recovery and preparedness efforts. Secretary Nielsen was joined by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long and General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, Commander, United States Northern Command.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: A North Carolina man was sentenced yesterday to one year and one day in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in dog fighting activities, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., Prime Healthcare Foundation, Inc., and Prime Healthcare Management, Inc. (collectively Prime), and Prime’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prem Reddy, have agreed to pay the United States $65 million to settle allegations that 14 Prime hospitals in California ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, charging a Roanoke, Virginia tax return preparer with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and filing a false personal tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen for the Western District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore, U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Troy Walker, Special Agent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement agreement with Anchor Glass Container Corporation today that will resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at all six of Anchor’s container glass manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the application by Nordea Bank Abp, Helsinki, Finland, to establish a branch in New York, New York.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: MIAMI, FL – Belen Jesuit Preparatory School of Miami, Florida, will pay $635,269 to 461 employees for violations of the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) found in a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation. WHD also assessed the school $47,578 in civil money penalties for violations of the FLSA's child labor requirements.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 3, 2018
News Release: FRANKFORT, IL ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited HB Fuller Company - operating as Adhesive Systems Inc. - for 18 health and safety violations at its facility in Frankfort, Illinois. OSHA proposed penalties totaling $587,564.
