News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Mariposa Grove and the Wawona Road remain closed. Limited visitor.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released draft environmental documents for the proposed approval of a one-time transfer of up to 2,500 acre-feet of Central Valley Project water from Tulare Irrigation District to Wutchumna Water Company for late-season irrigation deliveries.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: A PDF copy of this report is available.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man from Alabama was sentenced Thursday to 96 months in prison for trafficking cocaine in his vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Troy Walker, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used Online Marketplace to Target Victims.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa: Fort Necessity National Battlefield will host an eighteenth century period military encampment on August 4 and 5. The encampment is titled “The Armies in the Meadow" and will be located next to the reconstructed Fort Necessity at the park’s main unit. Volunteer and staff living historians...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER MAZUR, age 34, and REBECCA COMSTOCK, age 36, pleaded guilty today to violations of the Federal Gun Control Act. MAZUR pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Russell, a/k/a Mucho, 41, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine and 28 grams or...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Russell, a/k/a Mucho, 41, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine and 28 grams or...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Howard M. Appel, 57, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was charged today in a criminal information with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the FAA will provide $180 million in infrastructure grants for the construction of two major taxiway complexes at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Robert A. Brady (D-PA), Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Members of the House Committees on Homeland Security, House Administration, Oversight & Government Reform, and the Judiciary, released the below statement following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon for a second time and violating his supervised release, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting they conduct a retrospective review of Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) mergers, and how these mergers have affected prices for consumers.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced USDA is inviting comments on the implementation of the e-Connectivity Pilot Program established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 on March 23, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Beginning today, visitors to Glacier National Park can purchase digital annual and seven-day entrance passes online at YourPassNow. The National Park Service (NPS) partnered with NIC Inc. to develop and administer YourPassNow to better serve Glacier visitors.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) is planning to construct a new accessible hunting blind and wildlife viewing platform on Bodie Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, age 44, a Guatemalan citizen, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., to bank robbery through the threatened use of a pipe bomb, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Russian national was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for hacking into the accounts of two companies and issuing unauthorized debit cards associated with dependent care accounts to conspirators around the world, leading to losses of more than $4 million.
