News from August 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
Release: NORFOLK, Va. -A local resident was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded handgun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint Thursday, Aug. 30, marking the 16th firearm that TSA officers have caught at the airport so far this calendar year, far exceeding the 10 that were caught during all 12 months of 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide Medicare Advantage plans additional tools to negotiate lower Medicare Part B drug costs...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Victim Was in Washington With His Family for Memorial of Rev. Billy Graham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a federal jury sitting in Charleston returned unanimous guilty verdicts following the trial of former Logan County Schools Superintendent Phyllis Doty, 68, of Logan. The guilty verdicts came after a four day jury trial before Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber. The FBI and the West Virginia Legislature Commission on Special Investigations conducted the investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: HYATTVILLE, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to supporting sustainable, working public lands for the American people, the Bureau of Land Management requests public input on the analysis of the Alkali Creek Reservoir Project near Hyattville. In addition, the BLM will host a public meeting to discuss the project from 5:30-8:00 p.m. on September 20 at the Hyattville Community Center.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Albio Sires, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement on Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales’s announcement that he will not renew the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) when its current mandate expires...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 31, 2018 - On International Overdose Awareness Day, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett announced that USDA has formalized an innovative agreement in which a nonprofit organization will purchase homes from the Department and convert them to transitional housing for people recovering from opioid misuse.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS - Beginning Sept. 1, 2018, Mount Locust Inn and Plantation on the Natchez Trace Parkway will be open Thursday through Sunday, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Mount Locust Inn and Plantation, including the historic house, grounds, and information center will be closed Monday through Wednesday until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Over 20 MS-13 Gang Members Arrested in California for Assault and Drug Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Peever, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Jacqueline Scroggins, 53, of Avondale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 37 months’ imprisonment, followed by 100 hours of community service. Scroggins had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud. Co-defendants Amethyst Nicole Henderson...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: (ERIE, Pa,) - United States Attorney Scott w. Brady announced today that Hallman Chevrolet of Erie, Pennsylvania entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, and agreed to pay a monetary penalty of $1,400,000.00 and more than $737,000.00 in restitution to various lending institutions.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Mike Goicoechea’s Northern Rockies Type 1 Incident Management Team 1 assumed command of the fires as of 6 am on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Yesterday, Donald Rowley, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Robin L. Rosenberg to 168 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to possessing and receiving child pornography.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
Release: More information about Taiwan is available on the Taiwan page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for sexually exploiting a child, using USPS computers to access child pornography, and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: FAIRFIELD, Idaho - Effective immediately, the BLM Shoshone Field Office is temporarily closing public lands in and around the Stewart Creek fire area in Camas County for public and firefighter safety. Approximately 3,840 acres of BLM-managed public lands are affected by this closure, which covers all...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: The former president of a Kentucky-based corporation and a political consultant were both indicted today for using corporate funds to make contributions to the campaign of a candidate for U.S. Senate and for causing the concealment of these contributions from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that seven previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Aug. 29, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury this week indicted a Dallas man for defrauding the Summer Food Service Program, a U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative that provides free meals to children in low-income areas when school is not in session.
