News from June 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM (June, 2018) - Thanks to a 2017-2018 school year field trip grant from the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, Pecos National Historical Park welcomed 113 local kids to the park. The grant, titled “Creating Connections to the Ancestors: Northern New Mexico 4th Graders Discover their Past at Pecos", enabled students to develop a deep understanding of park resources and the relevance of parks in their lives.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - The Washington Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), in collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Operation Predator, participated in Operation Broken Heart from March 1 through May 31. The operation identified individuals using peer-to-peer networks to share child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two federal inmates convicted of killing another inmate at a Beaumont Prison in the Eastern District of Texas were sentenced to death today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Mountain Brook man to nearly three years in prison for cyberstalking, including threatening to kill, a former girlfriend and a second woman associated with her, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Strong City, KS: You are invited to join in a fun day of citizen science field research by counting butterflies in the Flint Hills on Saturday, June 23, 2018. The butterfly survey is named in honor of prominent biologist/naturalist Marvin Schwilling, who was born and raised in Chase County. The butterfly census will take place on and near the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - On June 13, a federal grand jury in Muskogee, Oklahoma, returned an eight-count indictment against two men for kidnapping and murdering a woman in Indian country in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jennifer Joyce Douglas, age 37, of Toppenish, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 16, 2018, to second degree murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), introduced legislation as part of their economic...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting the final public meeting at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. Friday, June 15 from 4:30-9 p.m. to provide input on the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program environmental impact statement (EIS). Public comments will be accepted through various other means until June 19, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - All 54 suspected smuggled aliens were rescued Tuesday night after being discovered inside a tractor trailer; one of those rescued remains hospitalized.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking business proposals to provide equestrian and related services at the Rock Creek Park Horse Center in Washington, DC for the next 10 years. Proposals are due by 4 pm EST Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man was arrested and charged today with receiving and distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A federal felon who entered a Cedar Rapids home armed with a stolen firearm and pistol-whipped and Tased its owner was sentenced today to twenty years in prison in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Sherman Hopkins, Jr., age 43, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a December 2017 guilty...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led a letter signed by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Board of Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released their annual reports on the financial health of these important programs. This year’s reports found that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officer Charles Wills was sentenced today to twenty-six months’ imprisonment for accepting bribes from an owner of an automobile collision shop in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to that shop, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Tennessee man was sentenced today for committing a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Marvin Dunigan, 46, of Johnson City, previously entered a guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Beckley Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park invites the public to learn about the history and future of the Far View Visitor Center during a symposium on June 30, 2018. There will be a self-guided tour of the exterior of the building from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, followed by presentations on the history of the building, challenges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Unser, 60, Sheldon, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to six years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by four years of supervised release. Unser pleaded guilty to this charge on March 21, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Just in time for the busy summer season, Cape Cod National Seashore has finished installation of new exhibits at Province Lands Visitor Center, located at the tip of the Cape in Provincetown. The new exhibits focus on the nature and history of the geographic area of the seashore referred...
