News from May 2018
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The lead environmental cleanup contractor for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management recently celebrated a significant milestone, surpassing the $2 billion mark on its $2.9 billion cleanup contract.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming invites the public to its annual statewide hearing on the use of helicopters and motorized vehicles in wild horse management operations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Rogelio Martinez-Rojas, of Mexico, has admitted to cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jose Santiago Cruz-Delcid, of El Salvador, has admitted to cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-U.S. economic growth and national security depend on the approximately $150 billion invested annually in federal research and development (R&D) funding. To ensure that investment reaps the largest commercial and economic returns possible, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Five people were sentenced today to a combined 145 months incarceration for their roles in a firearms theft and sale scheme, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute as part of a drug trafficking organization operating in the city of Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: International Falls, MN -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 237,249 visitors to Voyageurs National Park in 2017 spent over $18 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 273 jobs in the local area. "The environment of northern Minnesota is integral to our economy in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces the following guilty which took place before Senior U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany, Georgia on April 30, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman Yoder scheduled nine budget hearings for us in the space of three weeks. It was a little bit hectic but at the end of those hearings, we ended up with a bill that gives most of the Legislative Branch agencies most of what they asked for. The $4.88 billion in this bill...
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2018
Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - On Monday, April 30, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm in a carry-on bag at the security screening checkpoint at the Eastern Iowa Airport (CID).
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Sterling man pleaded guilty today to intentionally damaging his former employer’s computer network.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, sent a letter to Elaine Chao, Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), and Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling on the officials ...
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today announced the details for its hearing with the leadership of national and regional drug distributors in regards to the committee’s bipartisan investigation into opioid distribution practices, particularly alleged pill dumping in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Andres Lopez Elorez was arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go on an indictment charging him with conspiring to import and distribute heroin into the United States. The defendant was arrested in Spain on a provisional arrest...
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Scott Peters (D-CA) issued the following statements today following news that Albert Kelly has resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as Administrator Pruitt’s top advisor of Superfund cleanups.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Sharing the Road: Policy Implications of Electric and Conventional Vehicles in the Years Ahead."
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - The first defendant involved in a rip crew responsible for multiple home invasions and carjackings to steal narcotics in Hidalgo County has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jorge Antonio Calvo-Ayala, 25, of Pharr pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
