News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant admitted to being deported four times.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed Contra Costa Water District’s Cypress Preserve Property Inclusion Project.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s mission to promote domestic energy development as well as conservation of America’s natural resources, BLM Wyoming this week held its third-quarter oil and gas lease sale, bringing in approximately $61 million through competitive bids. In accordance...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted a City of Paterson police officer for multiple offenses arising from the assault of an attempted suicide victim at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is pleased to announce special programs and school reunion activities at the historic Button Rock School and historic Cortoreva School site on September 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Park rangers will be on hand to share a history of one-room schools in Shannon...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after news reports indicated a revised bill to tackle the opioid crisis may include a provision that sends billions to pharmaceutical companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Feliciano Ochoa Reyes, 34, of Mexico and Modesto was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to 17-and-a-half years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Olympic National Park and its non-profit partner Discover Your Northwest will host a special meet, greet, and signature event featuring local, renowned large-format photographer Ross Hamilton. The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center located at 3002 Mount Angeles Road in Port Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who used a fraudulent identification document to obtain a job was sentenced today to almost four months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Jose Luis Alonso DeLeon was sentenced today by United States District Judge William Steele. DeLeon pled guilty without benefit of a plea agreement to an indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that yesterday, United States District Judge Brian Harwell sentenced Jonathan Stefan Vanderhorst, age 23 of Tabor City NC, to 660 months (55 years) of incarceration as a result of his convictions for Conspiring to Commit Hobbs...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 21, 2018 - The state of North Carolina will be able to better serve participants through the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in the wake of Hurricane Florence, thanks to operational flexibilities approved for their use by the...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has signed separate agreements with Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) and Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) that will make it easier to approve each country’s aircraft and aviation products for their growing aviation markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced David Wise, a/k/a Rambo and Rampage, age 23, of Baltimore, to 13 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeremy A. Churchill, 38, of Cabot, Vermont, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to six years in federal prison for possessing stolen handguns. Churchill pleaded guilty to the stolen firearms charge in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing of an indictment charging a Janesville man with being a felon in possession of ammunition. Royal Powell, 35, was charged in an indictment returned by a grand jury on Sept. 12, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - As part of National Public Lands Day, Douglas High School joined the Bureau of Land Management and local community members in a clean up of the Cow Creek Back Country Byway along Cow Creek Road on Sept. 20, 2018. In total, 57 students participated in the cleanup along with volunteer leaders from Douglas High School. We believe partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), an original cosponsor of the bipartisan bill funding the National Park Service (NPS) maintenance backlog recently approved by the Natural Resources Committee, said today that if Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke truly wants to improve Grand Canyon...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting that he issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Falsely claimed a woman and child as his family to enable release.
