News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Public Meeting to Discuss Proposed Landscape Changes at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Postponed.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released annual market reports documenting data and trends in wind installations, technologies, costs, prices, and performance through the end of 2018 for three sectors: utility-scale land-based, offshore, and distributed wind.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant Found with 528 MasterCard Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Victims’ Defrauded $89,900.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Flat Rock, NC - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church in Flat Rock, NC, will join national parks and communities across the nation to commemorate the first landing of enslaved Africans 400 years ago in English-occupied North America at Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 23, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued guidance to states today regarding the repayment of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from the sponsors of non-citizens who participate in the program. Today’s guidance follows the issuance of President...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - On August 15th, “Fugitive of the Week," Freedom Weymouth, 40, was arrested by the Peabody Massachusetts Police Department. Weymouth was being sought on outstanding Commonwealth of Massachusetts arrest warrants alleging the offenses of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (X4), assault to murder, as well as assault and battery (X4).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: 42 Pounds of Marijuana, as well as Cash and Firearm, Found in Defendant’s Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Aug. 9, after a five-day jury trial, Jarvis Thomas, 34, of Bakersfield, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - Brian Ahakuelo, 58, former Business Manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1260 ("Local 1260") based in Honolulu, Hawaii, along with his wife, Marilyn Ahakuelo, 55, and sister-in-law, Jennifer Estencion, 52,were charged yesterday in a 70-count indictment. Charges include conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and embezzlement.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park is monitoring a quarter acre, lightning-ignited wildfire in Lassen Volcanic Wilderness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III today sentenced Keenan Lawson, a/k/a BlackFace, age 27, of Baltimore, to 23 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise related to his activities as a...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released annual market reports documenting data and trends in wind installations, technologies, costs, prices, and performance through the end of 2018 for three sectors: utility-scale land-based, offshore, and distributed wind.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Tyrique F. Williams, a former officer with Georgia’s Department of Community Supervision, has been sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribe payments from a parolee in exchange for allowing a parolee to avoid wearing an ankle monitor, taking polygraph examinations, and attending treatment classes.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced today that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued the Record of Decision (ROD) on the Copper Flat Copper Mine Project (Project), approving Alternative 2 from the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The Project authorizes New Mexico Copper Corporation (Copper Corporation) to conduct mining activities in Sierra County, NM.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that STEVEN ROLAND HANSEN, age 63, was charged on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 in a five-count indictment for wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Wheat Ridge Police Department Need Your Help Identifying an Armed Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III today sentenced Keenan Lawson, a/k/a BlackFace, age 27, of Baltimore, to 23 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise related to his activities as a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: NEWNAN - Nicholas Ryan Carden and Michael Andrews have each been sentenced for possessing firearms after being convicted of felony offenses. Together, Carden’s and Andrew’s criminal histories involve prior convictions for burglaries and multiple theft offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Access to portions of the Pacific Crest Trail, north of Walker Pass, Kern County, is impassable to equestrians due to a series of rockslides triggered by recent seismic activity. The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office, Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument, and the Pacific Crest Trail Association, advise all recreationalist to use extreme caution.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park will be closing Shuttle Stop 7 and the Weeping Rock Trail beginning Thursday, August 29 through Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 to provide an adequate safe zone for phase one of trail repairs that includes rock scaling above East Rim Trail. Shuttle Stop 7 and the Weeping Rock Trail are expected to reopen Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at 6 a.m.
