News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: St. Augustine, Florida - On Saturday, August 4, 2018 come join our Colonial British Navy re-enactors to learn about the life of an 18th century British sailor and watch the fort’s cannons fire. Fort tours complete with cannon firings will take place at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, & 3:30. Space on...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, and TENNESSEE - Drivers beware. Rangers will now be using unmarked vehicles to patrol the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway). After a six month pilot program showed a dramatic increase in the number of traffic stops for distracted and aggressive driving, the decision was made to order additional unmarked units. The order includes both typical and non-typical law enforcement vehicles such as full size SUVs and pickup trucks.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Vernal, Utah - School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) has requested title to 440 acres of federal parcels in T11S-R25E, Sections 5, 6, and 8 of Uintah County under the authorities of the Utah Enabling Act of July 16, 1894. Transfer of the parcel would fulfill the intent of the Utah enabling act to support the state’s schools through the land grant managed by the state.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to produce documents it is withholding relating to the Trump Administration’s decision to argue in federal court that key provisions of the ACA are unconstitutional.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, MD - The National Park Service (NPS) announces the open public scoping period for a project to improve the condition of the towpath between McMahon’s Mill to Lock 42 within the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal National Historical Park. The park plans to rehabilitate an historic stone retaining...
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Upon the conclusion of a non-jury trial before United States District Judge Reginald B. Walton, Judge Walton found Adolph Brown guilty of one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney Dunavant is pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph "Joe" Murphy as First Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee. This position was vacated when Lawrence J. Laurenzi retired in May 2018 after an extensive career with the Department of Justice.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after touring facilities with their colleagues where children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border have been held.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after touring facilities with their colleagues where children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border have been held.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District Office will hold a public fire information meeting at 5:00 p.m., Wednesday July 11 at the Humboldt County Commissioners meeting room at 50 W. 5th Street Winnemucca, NV.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s July 2018 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima basin indicates a full water supply for senior and junior water rights this irrigation season. This is an improvement for the junior users whose entitlements were limited to 96% of their full supply since June 11, based on the June TWSA. Prorationing is now 100%.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Trump signed into law H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today requested Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) schedule a hearing to examine misuse of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) program by pharmaceutical manufacturers in an effort to block, impede, or delay generic competitors from coming to market.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today sent letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Larry Page to probe the companies’ representation of third-party access to consumer data, and the collection and use of audio recording data as well as location information via iPhone and Android devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that on Friday, July 6, 2018, two Juneau men were sentenced in federal court, in separate cases, for federal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FEDERICO CANNON, also known as “Rico," 36, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Lawren John Slockish, 36, of Warm Springs, Oregon, was sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for molesting an 11-year-old girl.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $75 million in funding for 77 university research awards on a range of topics in high energy physics to advance knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
