News from May 2018
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released a report showing that the amount of illicit opioids, including illicit fentanyl, seized by the Border Patrol has increased dramatically over the last five years. McCaskill had recently released a report showing similarly dramatic increases in illicit fentanyl seizures at America’s ports of entry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal indictment unsealed here today charges three men in a “swatting" incident where false reports to police and emergency services set off a chain of events that led to a Wichita man being shot and killed, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, after the House Appropriations Committee adopted Republicans’ 302(b) subcommittee allocations that dramatically increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security while providing no increase for education, health and human services, environmental protection, and many other vital domestic priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 indictments charging 25 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MELVIN CORREA, 51, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately five months of imprisonment, time already served, and five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Starting after Memorial Day, the National Park Service will get Arlington Memorial Bridge ready for a full rehabilitation, which will begin in fall 2018. Work this summer will prepare the bridge to support construction equipment and traffic until its rehabilitation is finished in 2021. The bridge’s current 10 ton load restriction will stay in place for the duration of the project.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2018
Release: Under NEPA, agencies create their own implementing procedures that specify which agency actions or activities may require an environmental impact statement (EIS), an environmental assessment (EA), and which are categorically excluded from the need to conduct an EIS or an EA. Since APHIS issued the current ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin indicted James A. Nickels (age 67) of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on eighteen counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and one count of money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 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 “Reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program:"
By State Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 9 a.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), will hear testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The hearing is entitled “Strengthening American Diplomacy: Reviewing the State Department’s Budget, Operations, and Policy Priorities." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a five-count indictment charging Isai Sanchez, age 22, of Wilmington, North Carolina, with four counts of Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Stephen Mardigan, 61, of Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to running an illegal gambling business, money laundering, and subscribing to a false income tax return.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: In 2017, Rocky Mountain National Park was the fourth most visited national park with over 4.4 million visitors. This visitation represents a nearly 40 percent increase since 2012. Over the last 100 years, the reasons people visit are the same; to experience nature, to seek solitude, to enjoy scenic grandeur, to watch wildlife, and to partake in outstanding recreational activities.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released draft legislation to boost job prospects for the long-term unemployed and other Americans struggling to make ends meet. This proposed policy, called the ELEVATE Act, works to close the workforce gap that is preventing...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: A never-before-described gene that gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Ronald McKnight, 34, of Charlotte to 20 years in prison and three years of supervised release on bank robbery charges, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Heath Street gang members pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distributing drugs in and around the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to review H.R. 5385, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018, authored by #SubHealth Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) and #SubHealth Chairman Burgess. H.R. 5385 will reauthorize the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program for five years. The authorization for the program expires on Sept. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Esteban Santiago-Ruiz (Santiago) appeared today before United States District Judge Beth Bloom, and pled guilty to charges of committing acts of violence at an international airport resulting in five deaths and serious injuries, in connection with the mass-shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on January 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: (OCALA, Fla.) - Tirso Hernandez-(35, Ocala) was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. A federal jury found him guilty on Feb. 21, ...
