News from April 2019
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Students from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, won the 2019 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® (NSB) today in Washington, D.C. In the middle school competition, students from Jonas Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts, took home first place.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has signed a Record of Decision (ROD) that will allow the City of Goodyear to build the proposed Sonoran Valley Parkway in Maricopa County largely on public lands. The Parkway will provide a direct route in southern Goodyear connecting Rainbow Valley Road...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michelle M. Syler, age 50, of Albany, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison after admitting to downloading and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven Silva-Lugo, age 32, of Henryville, Monroe County, was sentenced on April 26, 2019, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to forty-five months’ imprisonment and three years on supervised release for his role in a Monroe County-based cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: April 29, 2019 - The Trump administration recently appointed Thomas Dayley as the new State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Idaho. Dayley began his duties today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James Hocker, age 49, was sentenced on April 26, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 204 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for committing securities fraud. Judge Brann also ordered Hocker to pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $1,495,782.62.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: A 33-year-old Mexican national, unlawfully in the United States, has been sentenced to prison for making false statements to a federal agency and for using a false social security number, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: On April 30, 2019 at 2pm, the House Judiciary Committee will consider four bills to address prescription drug pricing, including H.R. 965, the CREATES Act; H.R. 2375, the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act; H.R. 2374, the Stop STALLING Act; and H.R. 2376, the Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Trump’s Tariffs End or His Trade Deal Dies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Steven Andrew Dobson, 33, of Delano, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 10 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for receiving and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation includes funding for programs within the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and other related agencies, including the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rodney Williams, age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, pleaded guilty on April 26, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to distributing fentanyl to another person that resulted in the death of that person.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that William Wayne Anderson, a/k/a "Buffalo", age 40, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced a $160,552.50 grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program to help protect 18.71 acres of America’s battlefields in Maryland threatened with damage or destruction by urban and suburban development. This grant will be used to acquire a portion of the South Mountain Battlefield, a significant Civil War Battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Samuel Crawford, 40, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute cocaine base or “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jonathan Williams, age 48, of Boston, Massachusetts, a former Maryland insurance agent and financial planner with New York Life, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud clients of more than $2.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Came to the attention of federal authorities after his arrest in Woodbury County for possession of drug paraphernalia and interference with official acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former United States Postal Service manager pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to charges of bribery, witness tampering and false statements to federal officials.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a letter today, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) pressed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee on May 15 as previously requested. The letter comes after months of stonewalling and failed staff-level outreach to Bernhardt, who has only indicated an interest in private, off-the-record, one-on-one meetings with individual lawmakers on the Committee.
