News from November 2018
By Fed News Journal | Nov 30, 2018
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page rule on Nov. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 30, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Westminster TCF Bank Robbery Nov. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WAYNE JEROME CELESTINE, M.D., age 58, a physician who practiced in Gretna and resided in New Orleans, pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts in the Second Superseding Indictment, charging him with illegally dispensing controlled substances and money laundering.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
Release: Summary: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is publishing a record of decision for the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on cattle fever tick fencing in South Texas. 018, USDA published the final environmental impact statement that discussed how to continue to protect ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: On Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, the First Flight Society and the National Park Service (NPS) will continue the tradition of honoring the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the 115th anniversary celebration of the first heavier-than-air, controlled, powered flight. The event takes place outside of the Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center and park entrance fees will be waived for the day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a federal grand jury returned a three-count superseding indictment charging a convicted felon from Mexico with illegally re-entering the United States and firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -Two members of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration Minneapolis District Office spoke with the Minnesota chapter of the International Association of Special Investigative Units last November in Eagan, Minn., on the deadliness of opioids in America and how the DEA is addressing the epidemic at the local level.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ST GEORGE, UT -- Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Superintendent Chad Corey has set the seasonal winter closure of Kelly Point Road (NPS1203) to motorized vehicles for Monday, December 3rd, 2018 at 12:01 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a statement following the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States, Canada and Mexico have signed the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement...
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, December 6, at 10 a.m. entitled “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense: Promoting U.S. Interests in Africa.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Glen Allen man was sentenced today to over nine years in prison for distributing almost 400 grams of heroin and fentanyl in the central Virginia area.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-The Southeast Utah Group of national parks (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees on five days in 2019 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in their national parks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident with an extensive criminal history of hands-on sex offenses against children was convicted by a jury Wednesday of possession, and receipt or distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The owner of Ready Made RC, a Lewis Center-based company that sells radio-controlled model aircraft and drones as well as parts and supplies for them, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to intentionally understating the value of lithium polymer (LiPo) batteries he imported from China in order to avoid paying the proper import duty/tax on them, and violating safety regulations by improperly labeling, mailing and shipping the batteries.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice, along with Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme, this week announced the opening of the grant solicitation period for comprehensive funding to Indian Country to support crime prevention, victim services, and coordinated community responses to violence against native women.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kyle Wallace (22, Tampa) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with production and attempted production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. If convicted, Wallace faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Between 2014 and 2018, facial recognition software got 20 times better at searching a database to find a matching photograph, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) evaluation of 127 software algorithms from 39 different developers-the bulk of the industry. The findings, together with other data in a NIST report published today, point to a rapidly advancing marketplace for face-based biometric matching algorithms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Nov. 28, 2018, Pharmacist Vilawoe Aku Boadu, 39, of Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 120 months in prison. Zinka Sisic, 30, of Phoenix, Ariz., who worked as a Pharmacy Technician for Boadu, was previously sentenced to 48 months in prison. Boadu and Sisic were both convicted of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and conspiring to launder money involved in a drug trafficking offense.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for the proposed Mendota Pool Group 20-year groundwater exchange program.
