News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Monday, March 19 proved to be a busier-than-usual winter day for rangers in Grand Teton National Park. Park rangers worked in concert with Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers to conduct a helicopter-based rescue of an injured skier who was caught in an avalanche in Death Canyon early in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon, rangers completed a ground-based rescue of a snowshoer who became injured while jumping off boulders near Taggart Lake.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Two illegal aliens from India, unlawfully residing in southwestern Nebraska, were sentenced to a year in federal prison Monday on felony charges related to labor trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Energy’s $30.6 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Third Largest Asset Forfeiture Collection Among Medium-Sized U.S. Attorney’s Offices Ranked in the Top Third of All U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Asset Forfeiture Collections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing an Investors Bank branch in Navesink, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Sussex County, New Jersey, women, one a defense contractor employee and the other a civilian employee at Picatinny Arsenal, today admitted their roles in a scheme that traded bribes and other gratuities for favorable treatment on government contracts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Weekend back country explorers planning to visit the Dry Valley area east of Susanville the weekend of April 7-8 will encounter more people than usual, as a two-day Diamondback Hare Scrambles’ motorcycle race is scheduled on public land. Competitors will begin arriving Friday, April 6.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Iranian national, who was arrested in New York City, was sentenced in Minneapolis Tuesday to 15 months in prison for his role in illegally exporting restricted technology to his home country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that John Jacome, 35, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to oxycodone trafficking charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, today pressed the Trump administration to take action to better understand how to prevent sex trafficking of young people in foster care.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Darius Junior, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Gresham Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: PRINEVILLE, Ore. - As part of its multiple-use mission to support working landscapes that help local communities grow, the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District, is requesting public input regarding a proposed project to renew a livestock grazing permit. It covers the Millican and Williamson Creek grazing allotments located on both the north and south sides of Highway 20 near Millican, Oregon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Across the American West’s Rocky and Sierra mountains, miners dug for gold, silver, zinc and lead to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As they burrowed into the mountains seeking thick veins of valuable ore, they tossed tons of rock waste outside their mine entrances.
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “The FY 2019 Foreign Assistance Budget.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Convinced Minor to Send Him More Explicit Photos by Threatening to Release Earlier Pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Justin Douglas Jones, 42, of Medford was sentenced today to 155 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for armed robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: The Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee roundtable policy discussion entitled, “America’s Water Resources Infrastructure: Concepts for the Next Water Resources Development Act, Part II," originally scheduled for this Friday, March 23rd in New Orleans, has been postponed.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Building on the recent success of its popular new trail system in the Copper City area near Three Forks, the Bureau of Land Management is considering doing something similar in the Scratchgravel Hills north of Helena.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Martin, 58, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,113,000.