News published on Federal Newswire in October 2018

News from October 2018


News Release: HAMMOND - Robert Watkins, 32 years old, of Porter, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after pleading guilty, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.


News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Romondo Begay, 23, of Whippoorwill, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 108 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a twelve-year term of supervised release with sex offender registration, treatment, and testing. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact of a child.


News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Alphonso Andrews will lead the efforts of her Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.


U.S. Department of Labor Renews Partnership with Electrical Contractors and Associations to Protect Worker Safety and Health

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today renewed a national strategic partnership agreement with the Electrical Transmission and Distribution (ET&D) Construction Contractors; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); and related trade associations to protect the safety and health of line workers, and other electrical transmission and distribution industry workers.


Reclamation Signs Finding of No Significant Impact to Support a Revised Resource Management Plan at Horsetooth, Carter Lake, Pinewood, Flatiron Reservoirs

News Release: LOVELAND, Colorado -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for a revised Resource Management Plan (RMP) for Horsetooth Reservoir, Carter Lake, Pinewood Reservoir and Flatiron Reservoir. Reclamation owns and manages the four reservoirs...


Press Release by U.S. Attorney Relating to November 2018 Elections

News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laurie Kelly, no relation, will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election. AUSA Kelly has...


Thompson: President Trump’s Latest Immigration Policies are Nothing More Than Desperate Political Stunts

News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump inciting fear and playing politics with immigration policy just before an election...


"Industry Day" invites input for public-private seasonal housing development opportunity

News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is hosting an Industry Day at the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel and Conference Center, 119 Eden Street (Route 3), Bar Harbor, Maine on Nov. 14, 2018 from 9:30 am to 5 pm. This Industry Day will help the NPS decide if and how to proceed with a project...


News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn about the history of prostitution in the early American West and the owls of Nevada at the California Trail Interpretive Center.


News Release: New Haven - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut hosted a Community Policing Awards Ceremony this afternoon that recognized 15 law enforcement officers and community members from cities and towns across the state.


West Valley Site, Firefighters Provide Fire Safety Training to Students

News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project partnered with the local volunteer fire company to conduct fire safety training for West Valley School District middle school students. “In the event of an emergency, you always fall back to what you know," said...


News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that NICOLE SERUNTINE, age 35, an employee of Company A.M.M., pleaded guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Quran Jeter, 20, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from his role in a conspiracy to purchase firearms through a straw purchaser in the Atlanta, Ga. region and bring them to the District of Columbia for illegal resale.


The FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Miami

News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Miami.


SRS Reaches Cleanup Milestone at Site of Fuel Production for Space Mission

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Recently, EM workers for the first time removed equipment contaminated with plutonium once used to power deep space missions from a building known as 235-F, marking a milestone in reducing risk at the Savannah River Site (SRS) facility.


U.S. Attorney Shappert Announces Election Day Program

News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Alphonso Andrews will lead the efforts of her Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.


News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Steven P. Springer II, 26, of Pittsfield, Maine, was sentenced today by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for providing false information during the purchase of firearms. Springer pleaded guilty on May 29, 2018.


Talent, Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Distribute Cocaine and Trading Cocaine for Firearms

News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, Jonathan Alan Ochoa, 31, of Talent, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.


News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Deborah Sue Hand, 51, of Glenpool, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to eight months imprisonment (five of those months are to be served on home detention), as well as a period of 36 months supervised release, for embezzling from a Tulsa labor organization where she was employed as an office manager.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal prosecutor will be on duty on election day to respond to complaints of possible election fraud or voting rights violations in federal elections in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.