News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: * Rochester, New York - June 18 (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) NextCorps at Sibley Square, 260 E. Main Street, Suite 6000, Rochester, NY 14604. Register at...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Friday, June 15, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness: Responding to Biological Attacks, Pandemics, and Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Wesley Scott Aldred, 30, of Kissimmee, Florida, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for violating his supervised release on his prior telemarketing fraud conviction, Donald S. Boyce, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: In a joint announcement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Don Cochran announced federal charges against Steven J. Wiggins, 31, of Dickson, Tennessee, following an announcement by District Attorney General Ray Crouch that Wiggins, along with Erika Castro-Miles, 38, also of Dickson, had been indicted for the murder of Dickson County Sheriff’s Sergeant Daniel Baker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Donora, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 35 months in jail, to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Davis is the first...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On June 7, 2018, United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Melvin Lashley, a/k/a “Menace," age 28, of Baltimore, to fifteen years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute a kilogram of more of heroin and 280 grams or more of crack cocaine. Lashley pleaded guilty to these crimes in May 2017.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Calling all artists! Denali is accepting applications for its Artist-in-Residence program until Sept. 30, 2018. Artists will be asked to focus on the theme of Staying Safe with Wildlife, and Alaska Native artists are strongly encouraged to apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, June 14, entitled “Democracy Promotion in a Challenging World." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), along with Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have introduced a bill to protect the highly endangered North ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: The Energy Department today announced six awardees selected to receive a total of $6.7 million in federal funding to support the development of innovative technologies capable of generating reliable and cost-effective electricity from U.S. water resources. Each award had been selected as an alternate in a previous funding opportunity.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The Glacier View Turnout, located approximately 3.5 miles north of the Moose Junction on US Highway 26/89/191, will be temporarily closed from Monday, June 11 through Friday, June 15 for construction activities to prepare the site for a gathering area with educational exhibits.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: ELEPHANT BUTTE, NM - The Bureau of Reclamation is committed to ensuring that the historic damsite area at Elephant Butte Reservoir continues to be preserved and managed in a manner consistent with the public's historic preservation and public access priorities. Recent reports that Reclamation will destroy the buildings at the historic damsite area if the land is not transferred are false.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Donald Rice, formerly of Middletown, was sentenced on May 29, 2018, by Chief U. S. District Court Judge Leonard P. Stark to 48 months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Christopher Rhodes, age 53, from Lovejoy, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Rhodes faces a maximum sentence of up to twenty years in prison for each of the wire fraud offenses and a mandatory consecutive two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANDREW DEME, 52, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding investors in a yacht sharing club.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: EL PASO - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced 55-year-old former Chihuahua, Mexico State Police Officer Mario De La O Lopez (aka “Flaco") to 324 months in federal prison for his role in Sinaloa Cartel narcotics distribution operations. In addition to the prison term, United States District Judge Frank Montalvo also ordered that the defendant pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY VITO, 28, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to one count of aiding and abetting an armed bank robbery in Thomaston last year, and admitted that he aided and abetted two other commercial robberies on the same day.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Teachers are invited to join NatureBridge and the National Park Service for Learning from a Distance, a four-day summer workshop in Olympic National Park to be held August 6-9. Participants will hear from National Park Service rangers and researchers, discover the rich resources Olympic National Park has to offer, and learn ways to connect students to the park via technology.
