News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - During spring break, there will be “No Breaks" at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Dayton Michael Cramer, 71, of Tallahassee, was convicted of attempted enticement of a minor this afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee after a three-day trial. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: (Austin, TX) - Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Fred J. Milanowski, Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore and United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Travis Demond Johnson (38, Bunnell) to eight years and nine months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for selling cocaine on two occasions. He pleaded guilty on November 9, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on President Trump’s proposal to fight the opioid epidemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced an agreement with Secretary of Labor Acosta to fix the Trump Administration’s proposed tip rule, so that employers are not able to pocket workers’ tips and keep them for themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Five residents of Hudson, New York, have been indicted for their involvement in a crack cocaine distribution ring that operated in Columbia County.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Abstract submissions and registration are now open for the 14th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The deadline for abstracts is April 30, 2018. Registration will remain open until the conference fills.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, Ramone Jardon Nickerson, 33, of Phenix City, Alabama, was arrested on two charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and one charge of possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., from the Middle District of Alabama. Nickerson was an assistant football coach at Tuskegee University.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the Trump Administration announced the nomination of Dr. Robert Redfield as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management Glennallen Field Office is holding three open houses to seek public input and consider new information affecting management of 320,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands in the Haines and Skagway areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Alex James Spooner, 23, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawful acquisition of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Spooner was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William Hale, a/k/a “Man," age 44, of Schenectady, New York, was arraigned yesterday on charges that he distributed heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced WILLIAM MARTIN LAWSON, 42, of Lumberton to 120 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House floor today during consideration of H.R. 5247, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging former UAW official Nancy A. Johnson, 57, of Macomb, Michigan, with criminal violations of the Labor Management Relations Act, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Between 2014 and 2016, Johnson held the second most senior position in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Rondell Muwwakkil has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbing five metro-Atlanta banks in 2016. He passed notes to tellers at banks inside of stores demanding they give him small bills in each robbery.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Combatting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention and Public Health Solutions:"
