News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - With a shared commitment to control expanding populations of noxious and invasive weeds, the Bureau of Land Management will partner with Fremont County Weed and Pest for weed treatments in the Government Draw area east of Lander.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced today that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the committee the afternoon of Wednesday, September 5, 2018, regarding Twitter’s algorithms and content monitoring.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Rick Kempa joins the Mesa Verde National Park 2018 Artist in Residence Program from September 3 through 15. Rick, a poet and essayist of Rock Springs, Wyoming, took his first hike on the Colorado Plateau as a teenager in 1974, and has been returning ever since. A life-long lover of our National Parks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Fire, Racist Graffiti Used to Cover up Burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Angel Abel Campos, age 24, of Toppenish, Washington, a documented Sureno gang member, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty in May 2018, to being a felon in possession of a firearm and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 40 indictments charging 40 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced TROY LEE NEWSOME, JR., a/k/a “Slim," 30 from Wilson, North Carolina, to 42 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The road to the Bureau of Land Management’s Toston Dam Recreation Site is once again open after a landslide damaged the route in early July.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a six-count federal indictment against DAKOTA JAMES LAFAVE, aka “Biggs," 29, for attempting to murder an individual in retaliation for their testimony given at an official court proceeding. LAFAVE, who was arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota, will remain in detention pending further proceedings.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), led committee Democrats in writing a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to request that all records under control of the Judiciary Committee, and all records ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced the following recent indictments for previously convicted felons being found in possession of a firearm or ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Elijah Cummings of Maryland, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Cummings highlights the immediate need for Congress to enact oversight as a check to the rampant culture of corruption in the Trump Administration, and ensure that Washington works For the People. Video and audio of the Weekly Democratic Address can be downloaded here.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District, Wells Field Office will begin an emergency wild horse water gather on or about Aug. 24, from the Boone Spring area, located in the Spruce-Pequop Herd Management Area (HMA), as there is not enough water and forage to support the number of horses...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE- Frank Miranda Carrillo pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing crystal methamphetamine and illegally possessing unregistered firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, Obed Wild & Scenic River is launching a volunteer-based citizen science pilot program. A public meeting will be held on Monday, Aug. 27, at 6 PM (ET).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Fall River man who allegedly made repeated trips to Puerto Rico to obtain and ship significant quantities of cocaine to Rhode Island through the U.S. Postal Service has been indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: The latest statistics indicate that 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 - the highest death toll in a single year and a staggering figure. Nearly 30,000 of those deaths were attributable to one particularly deadly synthetic opioid - fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Quinn Alexander Haworth, 23 years old, of Monticello, Indiana, was sentenced by District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Looking for Albuquerque Man Wanted for Bank Robbery, Suspected in Others.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced today that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the committee the afternoon of Wednesday, September 5, 2018, regarding Twitter’s algorithms and content monitoring.
