News from December 2019
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: We want to remind visitors that beginning Jan. 2, 2020, entrance fees to Mesa Verde National Park will increase. In response to public comments on a fee proposal released in October 2017, there was a modest increase for all entrance fee-charging parks, rather than the higher peak-season fees initially...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement calling for continued work next year to end surprise medical billing. Murray also highlighted the need to address the effects of Republican efforts to undermine families’ coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida collected $60,236,230.99 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, $56,913,999.14 was collected in criminal actions and $3,322,231.85 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former GardaWorld armored truck driver Mark Nicholas Espinosa has been sentenced to 37 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $932,285.22 in restitution, for five charges related to the theft of more than $900,000 from the vehicle, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Thomas J. Whalen, D.O., 65, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to charges related to his unlawful importation of foreign, non-FDA approved injectable medications that he falsely billed to health care benefit programs in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announced awards of more than $8,742,871 to help public safety and public health professionals in the Northern.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A Dubuque man who distributed crack cocaine near playgrounds was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, to over fifteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Joseph Donald Roberts, 43, of Branford, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Bristow man Tuesday of coercion and enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews are deactivating Building K-1600, a former test and demonstration facility for uranium enrichment centrifuges at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: School Owner Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Department of Veterans Affairs Program Dedicated to Rehabilitating Disabled Military Veterans.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor on, a domestic priorities and international assistance minibus of Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations bills.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering the use of “blended lanes" at all six airports in Maine. Blended lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property at smaller airports that do not have a dedicated TSA Pre✓® checkpoint. At the nation’s larger airports, blended lanes are utilized during off-peak hours when TSA Pre✓® passenger volume is too low for dedicated TSA Pre✓® lanes.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement after successfully securing the inclusion of legislation based on his bipartisan bill with Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore) in the year-end appropriations package. The SECURE Act includes the Retirement Enhancement and Savings (RESA) Act of 2019, legislation Grassley introduced earlier this year with Wyden.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Donora, PA, has pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DON EDWARD PANNELL, II (“PANNELL"), age 32, of Harvey, Louisiana was sentenced today for Receipt of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service is actively working on options to improve the resiliency of Denali Park Road or possibly reroute a portion of the road at Pretty Rocks Landslide, located at mile marker 45.4, for the 2020 season. The park is coordinating closely with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to further evaluate the situation and develop alternatives to balance visitor safety, enjoyment and resource protection.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - Weather conditions permitting, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District is scheduled on or about Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, to begin burning slash piles of pinyon-juniper in the Kern Mountains, about 80 miles northeast of Ely. Area residents may occasionally see smoke and there will be an increase in fire vehicle traffic. No closures are planned.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Pennsylvania Doctor Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Drug Importation Charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
Release: ARLINGTON, VA - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Metro (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) are partnering to test new security technology intended to protect riders by detecting potential explosive devices and other dangerous items before they enter the transit system.
