News from September 2018
Justice Department Files Net Neutrality Lawsuit Against the State of California
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the state of California alleging that Senate Bill 822, an Internet regulation bill signed into law earlier today by Governor Jerry Brown, unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet, announced Attorney ...
Neal, Pascrell Statements on Updated NAFTA Agreement
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statements after the Trump Administration announced that the United States and Canada reached an agreement on terms, together with terms agreed to earlier with Mexico, to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Florence September 30 Update (Harkers Island)
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 55 National Park Service employees from 29 parks and 15 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
Missing Hiker in Dusy Basin Found Alive
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Sept. 30, 2018 - The missing hiker, Diane Salmon, 63, from Lafayette, California, who was reported missing has been found. She was seen by other hikers on her way to the South Lake Trailhead in Inyo National Forest. Ms. Salmon walked out with them and is currently being reunited with her family.
Convenience store manager sentenced to prison for trafficking synthetic cannabinoids
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mohammed Akram, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of misbranding food, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to 60 months in prison.
September Grand Jury
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 29 indictments charging 30 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.
Missing Hiker in Dusy Basin, Kings Canyon National Park
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Sept. 30, 2018 - Diane Salmon, 63, from Lafayette, California, was reported missing to the National Park Service late in the day on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. She was last seen on the Bishop Pass Trail on Friday morning on the Northside of the first lake in Dusy...
NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Florence September 30 Update (Currie)
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 55 National Park Service employees from 29 parks and 15 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
Hatch Statement on NAFTA Deal with Canada and Mexico
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released a statement following the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement that it has reached an updated NAFTA agreement that includes both Canada and Mexico...
Request for Bids
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: Richmond National Battlefield Park is issuing a Request For Bids which provides the opportunity for interested individuals to submit bids to the NPS for the leasing of agricultural lands within the park. There are ten fields ranging from 7 to 128 acres and leases are for 5 years. Interested bidders can...
NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Florence September 29 Update
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 72 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 19 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Florence September 29 Update
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 72 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 19 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
Park Mobilizes Additional Resources in Search for Missing Woman
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: Clingmans Dome Road Remains Closed to Accommodate the Search Operation.
Weather Temporarily Closes Logan Pass Area of Going-to-the-Sun Road
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The Going-to-the-Sun Road is temporarily closed between Avalanche Creek on the west side of the park and Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side of the park.
Saguaro National Park October Program Schedule
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: Saguaro National Park News Release. October 2018. Contacts: Saguaro West - Richard Hill (520) 733-5158, 2700 N. Kinney Rd. Saguaro East - Melanie Florez (520) 733-5151, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail. Saguaro National Park October Program Schedule. Saguaro National Park is offering a variety of walks and talks...
National Park Service and U.S. Coast Guard Continue Search for Helicopter Crash Survivors Near Lituya Bay, Alaska
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2018
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK 6:00PM AKDT - National Park Service (NPS) personnel continue to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in the search for three more possible survivors from a helicopter that went down Friday on a flight from Juneau to Yakutat. One 14-year-old was flown to Sitka for medical treatment after being...
Amite Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Obtain Forced Labor From Woman with Disabilities
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Bridget Lambert, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Eastern District of Louisiana to one count of a forced labor conspiracy for conspiring with members of her family to obtain forced labor from D.P., a woman with cognitive disabilities. At the plea hearing, Lambert admitted that, between ...
Justice Department Hosts Cybersecurity Industry Roundtable
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department’s Criminal Division hosted a cybersecurity roundtable discussion yesterday on the challenges in handling data breach investigations. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Criminal Division delivered opening remarks and served as moderator for the event. Deputy ...
Federal Inmate Pleads Guilty and Receives Life Sentence for 2000 Carjacking, Kidnapping and Murder in Vermont
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: A federal inmate formerly residing in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today to murder, carjacking and kidnapping, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan for the District of Vermont.
Dominican National Sentenced to Prison for his Involvement in National Conspiracy to Sell Identity Documents to Illegal Aliens
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: A Dominican national was sentenced to prison today for his role in a scheme to sell the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents to individuals illegally residing in the United States. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
