News published on Federal Newswire in October 2018

News from October 2018


News Release: Mapping Interface Provides Neighborhood-Level Information on Children’s Outcomes.


Fossil Butte National Fossil Day Celebration

News Release: Kemmerer, WY - Fossil Butte National Monument will be celebrating National Fossil Day on Saturday, October 13th, 2018. This annual event is held across the nation to highlight the scientific and educational value of paleontology and the importance of preserving fossils for future generations.



Rarest Sea Turtle Nests on Queens Beach

News Release: Queens, N.Y. - Ninety-six hatchlings of the world’s most endangered sea turtle crawled out to sea this week on West Beach on the Rockaway Peninsula located within the Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway), National Park Service (NPS).


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.


Park Continues Extensive Search for Missing Woman

News Release: More Than 45 Agencies and Volunteer Search and Rescue Groups Participating.


Los Angeles-area woman sentenced to federal prison in scheme to smuggle restricted space communications technology to China

News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that illegally exported sensitive space communications technology to China was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison.


Eagle Butte Man Sentenced for Assault

News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding, was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC, doing business as DaVita Medical Holdings LLC, has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability for providing inaccurate information that caused Medicare Advantage Plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Justice Department announced today. DaVita is headquartered in El Segundo.


MS-13 Member Sentenced to 36 Years in Prison for RICO Conspiracy Involving Murder of a 15-Year-Old Boy

News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.


News Release: Dr. Phyllis Messenger to Speak at Pipestone National Monument.


News Release: GREENBELT, Maryland - Roy David Evans, Jr., age 34, of Essex, Maryland, was sentenced today to 17 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography, possession of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore and the Montgomery County Police Department.


Four Charged in Federal RICO Conspiracy Indictment involving Gang-related Murder and Other Crimes

News Release: Those Charged Include Gang Members from the “Rollin 30s" Set of the Crips.


Philadelphia man and Wheeling man sentenced for drug charges

News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - James R. Stewart, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Deion J. Jones, of Wheeling, West Virginia, were sentenced today to a combined 78 months for drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.


News Release: On Sunday, Oct. 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Tumacácori will celebrate the harvest season during the first annual Mission Bake-Off! Community members are invited to submit their finest recipe in one of three categories inspired by the heritage fruit trees of the mission orchard - pomegranate...


Jacksonville Repeat Offender Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison for Firearms Offense

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Carl L. Lawson (46, Jacksonville) to 16 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for violating the conditions of supervised release that Lawson was serving in connection with a prior federal...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after President Trump announced the United States, Canada, and Mexico have reached an agreement on the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexander Seegar, 29, of Darien Center, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jason Bonds, 43, of Ascutney, Vermont, was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2018, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 45 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Bonds to serve a five (5) year term of supervised release, and to pay a $100 special assessment.


Twenty Previously Deported Aliens Charged With Illegal Re-Entry

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that twenty previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Sept. 26, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Luzerne, Monroe and York.