News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2018 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. This contest in now accepting entries online (January 9 - February 7, 2018). Visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Freeport, Texas, man was sentenced last week to 88 months in prison for transporting a minor to Shreveport to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released a joint statement with Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), after the Trump Administration announced its decision to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Salvadorans...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Timothy Keith Igou, 31, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 37 months in prison, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Jonathan L. Courtland, 35, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and being a Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will terminate Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from El Salvador...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Ridder, 46, of Albion, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Jonathan L. Courtland, 35, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and being a Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
Release: SEATTLE - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) discovered two firearms in less than 24 hours during the routine screening of carry-on baggage.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement after President Trump signed two executive orders aimed at improving rural broadband.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with members of the ATF Philadelphia Arson Task Force were activated to respond to the scene of a two-alarm structure fire within a two-story residential rowhouse, located at 2240 North ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. praised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 5-0 vote to terminate the “resiliency" rulemaking proposed by Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Last year, Pallone sent a letter to Secretary Perry requesting details on the development of the proposal...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Michael S. Black will succeed Michael J. Ryan as Reclamation’s Great Plains Regional Director on January 21. An experienced engineer and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, Black has a strong background in infrastructure and is Reclamation’s first Native American regional director.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke at a public meeting hosted by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources (DNREC) to voice his strong opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After multiple meetings with President Donald J. Trump on issues of importance to rural America, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today joined the President onstage at the American Farm Bureau’s 99th annual convention in Nashville, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing a TD bank in Newark in May 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. praised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 5-0 vote to terminate the “resiliency" rulemaking proposed by Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Last year, Pallone sent a letter to Secretary Perry requesting details on the development of the proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - On January 5, 2018, JACKIE DUNCAN, 30, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 386 months in federal prison for his role in a robbery conspiracy, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), today questioned whether the Trump administration is wrongfully pressuring the IRS to produce 2018 withholding tables that would result in systematic underwithholding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal has sworn in Ryan K. Patrick as the 23rd presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas (SDTX). He began his duties immediately. As the United States Attorney for the SDTX, Patrick is the chief law enforcement officer responsible for prosecuting and defending the interests of the United States in the seventh largest district in the nation.
