News from August 2019

By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Aug. 24, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park rangers and living historians will conduct artillery demonstrations at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm. These programs are free of charge.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: “NOAA will continue to deliver the information that the public depends on before, during and after any storms throughout the hurricane season," said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting NOAA administrator. “Armed with our next-generation satellites, sophisticated weather models, hurricane hunter aircraft, and the expertise of our forecasters, we are prepared to keep communities informed to help save lives and livelihoods."
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that BRYAN ALLEN faces federal charges of theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The owner of a Kansas City, Missouri, day care center was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to fraudulently receive more than $556,000 in federal benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Robert Thomas, 46, has been sentenced to 108 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Outdoor Chattanooga will conduct two FREE programs on Friday, August 23. At 8:30 am, the first program is a 2 - hour guided and equipped historical kayak tour around Maclellan Island. Then, at 11 am, a ranger will lead a 90 minute...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to use explosives to kill and injure others.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding was sentenced by Daneta Wollmann, U.S. Magistrate Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Brothel owner Helen Kim pleaded guilty today to a racketeering charge, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today observed the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A citizen of El Salvador was indicted in federal court after he was stopped on the Ohio Turnpike transporting people who were in the country illegally.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report on Climate Change and Land Use...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joroy Nigel Twyman, of Ranson, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing cocaine base, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart issued the following statement regarding Oak Hill Hometown Pharmacy today.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report on Climate Change and Land Use...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - As part of an immigration enforcement operation throughout central Mississippi yesterday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) concluded their processing of detained aliens last night and followed their procedures by releasing many on humanitarian grounds, announced Jere Miles, HSI Special Agent in Charge in New Orleans, and Mike Hurst, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report on Climate Change and Land Use...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - On Tuesday, a federal judge sentenced Jarrett Denard Boykins, of Birmingham, to serve 241 months in prison for convictions related to drug trafficking and gun possession, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.