News from March 2018
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
Release: Rescinding Federal Order Removes Regulatory Burden and Aligns with Industry FeedbackWashington, D.C. - March 6, 2018 The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is rescinding the Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) Federal Order and will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Colby Isaac Hilleary (24, Greenville, Texas) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interfering with the duties of a flight attendant. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Students from Howe, Arco, and Mackay are proving there’s as much emphasis on technology as there is in tractors in these rural Idaho farming communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Elizabeth, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for using his home computer to distribute sexually explicit videos and images of children, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to threatening to murder African-Americans at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico, as well as the protected areas of Maderas del Carmen, Ocampo, and Cañon de Santa Elena, will start summer hours of operation beginning March 11, 2018. The change in hours is to align with daylight hours.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: KIMBERLY - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument will hold a public meeting on March 22, 2018 at the Grant County Senior Center in John Day, Oregon to present the park's Draft Accessibility Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan. As part of the planning process, the National Park Service is seeking public comment on the draft plan. Your participation is important to our planning process.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park woman has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for injecting a woman with a foreign substance for the purpose of buttock enhancement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. -- Federal and state agents have arrested 23 members and associates of the Ghostface Gangsters prison gang, which originated in the Cobb County, Georgia jail in 2000, and has since spread through Georgia jails, prisons, and beyond. A federal grand jury returned a 21-count indictment on Feb. 8, 2018, which was recently unsealed. The crimes alleged in the indictment range from wire fraud to murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant Admits Misrepresenting His Connections to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Falsifying an Escrow Account to Secure a $450,000 Payment.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs denounced the Trump Administration decision to censor critical elements of the State Department’s annual Human Rights Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York man pleaded guilty today to defrauding a national trade association out of more than $1.1 million in an email phishing scam.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Federal project directors recently took members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) on a tour to view DOE’s excess contaminated facilities at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Colorado man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to ship $3 million worth of marijuana through the mail for distribution in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stanislav Nazarov, 46, a dual citizen of Israel and Russia, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering stemming from his role in an international fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) request for a second special counsel to investigate “decisions made and not made by the Department of Justice and the FBI in 2016 and 2017"...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Today, the Energy Department announced $4 million to support three new cost-shared research projects focused on medium- and heavy-duty, on-road natural gas engines and $3 million to support two new cost-shared research projects for advancing fluid power systems for off-road vehicles. These five projects are complemented by $5 million in early-stage research at DOE’s National Laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Eight Central Ohio defendants charged on Valentine’s Day have now been indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to launder and for laundering the proceeds of online romance scams.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Columbia River Basin Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) honored two Hanford projects at its annual awards gala Feb. 23. EM’s Richland Operations Office sponsored both winning entries.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office plans to conduct two prescribed burns near Townsend and Wise River in the upcoming months.
