News from December 2018
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a Report to Congress: Ethane Storage and Distribution Hub in the United States. The report highlights the potential in Appalachia for the development of a new ethane hub based on the tremendous low-cost resource from the Marcellus and Utica shales, and the accompanying security and reliability benefits derived from geographic diversity in the nation’s petrochemicals manufacturing base.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jonathon Rule, age 28, of Moreau, New York, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for failing to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: A Colombian national was sentenced to 180 months in prison for his role in a scheme to smuggle illegal aliens from Colombia into the United States, which resulted in the rape of one and the death of two Cuban nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John Robert Sink, Jr., 68, and Diane Marie Sink, 63, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, were sentenced on Dec. 3, 2018, to serve 37 months in prison for making false statements as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill Wyoming Medicaid for mental health services, which were never provided, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gerald Castillo, Jr., 30, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to three years probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for assaulting a federal officer.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will sponsor seven trade missions in 2019 to expand export opportunities for U.S. agriculture across the globe, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pompton Plains, New Jersey, man was charged today with maliciously calling in a bomb threat to a religious institution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Timothy Scheitlin, age 43, of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Dec. 3, 2018, with theft of Government funds.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement in response to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum designating the violence against the Rohingya as genocide...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a Report to Congress: The report highlights the potential in Appalachia for the development of a new ethane hub based on the tremendous low-cost resource from the Marcellus and Utica shales, and the accompanying security and reliability benefits derived from geographic diversity in the nation’s petrochemicals manufacturing base.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: On Tuesday, Dec. 11, a new exhibit in Carl Hayden Visitor Center will be inaugurated by its intended audience: Junior Rangers!.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 40-year-old Houston man has been convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - On Nov. 15th Assistant Secretary Anne White addressed participants at EM’s 17th Annual Intergovernmental Meeting. The meeting provided opportunities for increased communication among DOE, states, tribes, and local communities affected by the ongoing cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex. Following are White’s remarks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - James Michael Hogan, Jr., 50, of Casper, Wyoming, and Levi Joseph Lupe, 49, of Lapwai, Idaho, were sentenced to federal prison terms last week of 21 months and 18 months, respectively, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Hogan, sentenced in Pocatello by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: For Immediate Release Contact: DHS S&T Press Office, (202) 254-2385 Houston, TX – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is presenting a demonstration of integrating emergency response technologies during a simulated HAZMAT scenario at the Port of Houston on ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton released the following statement on U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen's meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary-Designate Marcelo Ebrard.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2018 -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of three producers and three industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. The appointments will fill member seats that became vacant when the current terms expired on June 30, 2018. All appointees will serve the remainder of three-year terms ending June 30, 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today the appointment of Matthew J. “Matt” Lohr to serve as Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). In his role, Lohr will provide leadership for NRCS and its mission to support America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in their voluntary conservation efforts through a network of over 3,000 offices in communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: A federal court permanently enjoined a Saranac, Michigan company and its owners from preparing, processing, and distributing adulterated ready-to-eat food, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: A Homestead, Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Miami to 36 months in prison for surreptitiously producing and distributing pornographic audio and video recordings of himself engaging in sexual activity with multiple men. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice ...
