News from June 2018
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 DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for selling stolen firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Delivering on a promise, U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today are pleased to announce the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 was favorably reported out of the Committee with bipartisan support.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Rogers, members of the subcommittee, and our full committee chairman, Mr. Frelingyhusen. I appreciate the majority’s efforts to include many of my colleagues’ and my priorities in the bill. I also wish to welcome the newest member of our subcommittee, Mr. Rutherford.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Robs Albuquerque Bank, Possibly Flees in White U-Haul Van.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: A man who sent threatening “tweets" on the Internet to United States Senator Joni Ernst was sentenced today to six years in federal prison. Joseph Hilton Dierks, age 34, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a Nov. 22, 2017, jury verdict finding him guilty of three counts of sending threatening communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey filed a lawsuit today against the Borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, alleging that the borough and its zoning board violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow an Orthodox Jewish congregation to build a house of worship on its property and took steps to keep it from building a house of worship anywhere else in the borough.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Donnie Garland, 52, of Corbin, Ky., was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison, by United States District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for distributing methamphetamine, possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture, possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes, and possessing a firearm following a felony criminal conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Liquid waste operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have successfully restarted after a comprehensive, 15-month outage to replace and upgrade equipment and facilities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
Release: AUSTIN, Tex. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted a loaded firearm in a carry-on bag yesterday morning at an Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant part of operation targeting business email compromise schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that she and federal law enforcement partners, plus members of the District’s Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force, will participate in a Town Hall Meeting at the Kirwan Terrace Community on Thursday, June 14th at 6:00 p.m. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a bank robbery charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: On June 12, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an updated Northern Border Strategy (NBS). The strategy establishes a clear vision and concrete actions that will improve DHS’s efforts to safeguard our northern border against terrorist and criminal threats, facilitate the safe and efficient flow of lawful cross-border trade and travel, and strengthen cross-border critical infrastructure protection and community resilience.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: On June 12, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen joined the Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Public Security and the Israeli Defense Forces for an operational briefing on security technology and operations.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Re-enrollment Continues Through June 22, Dairy producers urged to act now WASHINGTON, June 12, 2018 – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the re-enrollment deadline for the Margin Protection Program (MPP) for Dairy will be extended until June 22, 2018. The new and improved program ...
