News from January 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: I want to welcome the witnesses and thank them. The information they will share will help inform the committee as it addresses the issue of high prescription drug prices.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT - Beginning in May this 2019 season, payments for park entrance fees, campground fees and Interagency Pass purchases at Cedar Breaks National Monument will be by credit and debit card only. Cash and check payments will no longer be accepted. Visitors can pay via the...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: The revised fee plan comes after more than a year of civic engagement with park users and neighboring communities. The new entrance fee will increase from $25 to $30 per vehicle for seven days. Individual entrance fees will increase from $8 to $15 and the park’s annual pass will cost $55. The second phase of fee increases will take place in January 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Mo., man who supervised workers at the federal courthouse in Jefferson City pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally selling firearms to convicted felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Westerly man who admitted to exchanging sexually explicit images involving minors with others online and to sending sexually explicit images to minors via social media applications has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, February 9, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 1-hour talk exploring the science involved in Civil War artillery. This is a free program and will take place at the DeLong Reservation on Missionary Ridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams today announced that U-Haul Company of Pennsylvania and Miguel Rivera, the general manager of U-Haul’s Hunting Park location, pled guilty today to two felony counts of violating hazardous materials regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is excited to announce the artists chosen for the 2019 Artist-in-Residence program. This is Homestead’s eleventh year offering artists the opportunity to live at the monument and create works of art inspired by the Homestead story and its environment. Homestead...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JEREMY SHAWN PARKE, 46, of Moore, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to three years in prison for possession of a firearm while under a victim protective order, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Defendant Stole More Than $545,000. WASHINGTON - Ashley Furst, 35, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., pled guilty today to a federal wire fraud charge stemming from an embezzlement scheme in which she stole more than $545,000 from a non-profit organization based in the District of Columbia. The announcement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House unanimously passed H.R. 430, the TANF Extension Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Additional Charges Filed in Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Black Hawk, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, was sentenced on January 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after voting against the disapproval resolution on Russia sanctions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Eugene Hilton Russell, 51, of Miami-Dade County, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge to Jose E. Martinez to 300 months in prison for trafficking in cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument has closed the Slot Canyon Trail due to heavy snow in the area which has created unsafe hiking conditions. Freeze and thaw in this area can lead to falling rocks and unstable hiking tread. The Veteran’s Memorial Overlook will also be closed until the road is passable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that HAROLD GORDON, 69, of Templeton, Massachusetts, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Cleveland Ellis, 30, and Joshua Hamilton, 29, both of Jackson, were sentenced yesterday by Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III for illegally possessing firearms as felons, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF").
