News from October 2018
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a second letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today seeking answers to a series of questions following concerning new reports on the company’s failure to curtail the sale of counterfeit products on its website. In the letter, Pallone expressed...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Filemon Vela (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee, released the following statement on news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing multiple waivers to disregard certain environmental laws to rush construction of border wall along the Rio Grande Valley...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Cumberland man admitted in U.S. District Court in Providence today to participating in a series of “lying and buying" schemes, where in the fall and winter of 2016, he bought a total of nine guns from three different licensed firearms dealers by falsely representing that he was the actual buyer of the firearms, when in fact he was buying the guns for others.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A broad group of Wyoming leaders and stakeholders have voiced support for Sen. John Barrasso's (R-WY) bipartisan legislation, S. 3021, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Help mālama (care for) the Hawaiian rainforest at the summit of Kīlauea volcano and volunteer for “Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, October through December, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a second letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today seeking answers to a series of questions following concerning new reports on the company’s failure to curtail the sale of counterfeit products on its website. In the letter, Pallone expressed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant in custody on state drug distribution charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce that reservations are now open for the preserve’s 3rd annual Candlelight Tour taking place on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. All activities are free, but reservations are required for this event and fill up fast. Please call the visitor center at 620-273-8494 (hit 0) to make your free reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Santa Fe, N.M. - In order to make it easier for members of the public to obtain fuelwood permits for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed lands, the BLM will sell fuelwood permits on certain days in Northern New Mexico. On Oct. 15, Oct. 16, Oct. 23, and October 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to press reports that President Donald Trump will sign two bills lifting gag order clauses mandating that a pharmacist may not inform patients of cheaper equivalent prescription drugs::
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - George Nangah, 51, of Cordova, Tennessee was arrested following a 14-count indictment by a federal grand jury alleging wire fraud, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi William C. Lamar, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi Christopher Freeze and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE), Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee ranking member Ben Cardin (D-MD) released the following statements on the Senate's passage of S. 3021, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey resident was convicted by a federal jury today of two counts of threatening to murder U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo and members of the congressman’s staff, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JODI ZILS GAGNE, 43, of Bristol, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of mail fraud related to her theft of more than $169,000 from individuals for whom she served as a court-appointed conservator.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), led the committee's minority members in urging Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to stay firm on his commitment to “restoring the rule of law" at the Environmental Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alejandro Quintero-Marquez, age 33, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Caught With a Gun and a Ski Mask After Ninth Robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces a finding of no significant impact related to oral rabies vaccine (ORV) field trials in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia. The finding, which is based on the Environmental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty today to robbing a Quik Trip in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Stephan McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - The Bureau of Land Management will burn slash piles in Lawrence County this winter as weather conditions allow.
