News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is reopening several public land recreation areas in Lake, Mendocino and Colusa counties that have been closed since late July because of dangers from the Mendocino Complex fires and suppression efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JUAN HAZARD, also known as “Money," 42, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to a fentanyl trafficking offense.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 10 Vermont counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Orange, Rutland, Windham, and Windsor counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain and prolonged, cool temperatures that have occurred since April 1, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted on federal firearms charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau’s National Processing Center (NPC) is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Sept. 25, 2018. As part of this historic event, the NPC will hold a job recruitment fair for the 2020 Census. The NPC has been the primary processor of Census Bureau data since 1958, and has assisted...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 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), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting, where the committee advanced the following items...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
Release: MENLO PARK, CA — The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Duration Addition to electricitY Storage (DAYS). Awardees will develop energy storage systems to provide reliable, affordable power to ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Trump signed H.R. 5385, the Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018, into law.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Federal and contractor officials and community members serving on a panel at this year’s National Cleanup Workshop stressed the critical role of partnerships as EM reduces risks to people and the environment by addressing cleanup of contaminated, non-operational buildings with no future missions - otherwise known as excess contaminated facilities.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Doors of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area headquarters officially reopened almost five weeks after one of the largest wildfires in California’s history swept through the park, ultimately burning 39,000 of its 42,000 acres. After enduring an extremely trying and overwhelming time, the park laid down one more brick in a new foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JUAN HAZARD, also known as “Money," 42, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to a fentanyl trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Colin B. Montague, 63, of Greece, N.Y., who was convicted after a seven-week jury trial of operating a continuing criminal enterprise, drug conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering, was sentenced to serve life...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Colin McDonald (619) 546-9144 and Jennifer McCullough (619) 546-8773.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROBERT SHANE APGAR, 35, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 235 months in prison for making a bomb threat and sending child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jose Atalo Felix-Beltran, Arturo Felix-Beltran (U.S. citizens), and Osvaldo Felix-Beltran (U.S. resident) living in Indio, California, were arraigned in federal court on Sept. 14, 2018 on charges that they conspired to distribute over 20,000 pills of fentanyl, a Schedule II drug. These three defendants are brothers who were arrested together on Sept. 13, 2018, in El Centro, California.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation will be lowering the water level in Alcova Reservoir as the 2018 irrigation season draws to a close. The annual drawdown of the reservoir will begin on Monday, Oct. 1.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ryan K. Zinke today announced a $100 million distribution from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to all 50 States, the Territories, and the District of Columbia for state-identified outdoor recreation and conservation projects. LWCF funds are non-taxpayer dollars derived from Outer Continental Shelf lease revenues and are awarded through federal matching grants administered by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man was sentenced today to an additional 120 months in prison for possessing images of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for a previous offense involving the distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Former U.S. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Martin Rene Duran was sentenced in federal court today to 24 months in custody for unlawfully depriving another of his civil rights under color of law and for firearms offenses.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the need to pass America's Water Infrastructure Act.
