News from January 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2019
News Release: The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for lower elevations in Mount Rainier National Park beginning at 10 p.m. Pacific Time Saturday January 5th. The advisory remains in effect through 10 a.m. Sunday January 6th. Significant snow accumulations have begun in the park, including...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2019
News Release: “During the lapse of appropriations, the men and women of the National Park Service who have remained on duty have gone to incredible lengths to keep America’s iconic national parks as accessible as possible to the American public. Thanks to the strong relationships that many national parks have built...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI, Ohkay Owingeh Police Investigate Apparent Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2019
News Release: Two Arrested for Tampering with a Witness in an Upcoming Trial.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., January 4, 2019) – Due to a lapse in federal funding, work on National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Office of the Chief Economist – World Agricultural Outlook Board (OCE-WAOB) reports have been suspended since Dec. 22, 2018 and remain suspended. Given the lead time ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta today issued the following statement regarding the December 2018 Employment Situation report: "With more than 5,000,000 jobs added since the 2016 election, the American economy surpassed 150,000,000 jobs for the first time ever. "This month's ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta today issued the following statement regarding the December 2018 Employment Situation report: "With more than 5,000,000 jobs added since the 2016 election, the American economy surpassed 150,000,000 jobs for the first time ever. "This month's ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 4, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Jan. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Friday, January 4, 2019, G. Ford Gilbert, 71, of Carmichael, California, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bribery of a state official, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Postal Inspector in Charge of the Houston Division Adrian Gonzalez, and Special Agent in Charge James Jewell of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Mobile Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement on the U.S. Trade Representative’s announcement it will request consultations with Peru, after the Peruvian government stripped independence from the agency that oversees Peru’s logging industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Angela Maxine Lee, 41, of Canton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 84 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lee pled guilty to the charge on Oct. 3, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) sent letters to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig, requesting explanations for how the partial government shutdown, now entering its second week, will affect taxpayers and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Friday, January 4, 2019, G. Ford Gilbert, 71, of Carmichael, California, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bribery of a state official, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Postal Inspector in Charge of the Houston Division Adrian Gonzalez, and Special Agent in Charge James Jewell of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Mobile Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Wichita, KS - The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a man and woman in Maize, KS in connection with a Tulsa murder. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth Williams, also known as Jazzie, and 33 year-old La’shae Terrell are now in custody.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Randy Quinn, age 31, of Westminster, was sentenced in federal court in Greenville for possession of child pornography. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of Columbia sentenced Quinn to 68 months in federal prison, followed by lifetime court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michael Greene, age 44, of Columbia, South Carolina, was charged in a one-count Indictment by a federal Grand Jury in Columbia with a knowing violation of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: A Canton man with a history of firearms and gang violence was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for having a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: Defendant Used His Position as a Law Enforcement Official to Facilitate International Drug Trafficking into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2019
News Release: On January 4, 2019, 37 year old Tyrone Lee, of Tulsa, pleaded guilty to robbery of the Forest Acres liquor store on Feb. 22, 2018. During the robbery, Lee, who threatened the store employees with a loaded sawed off shotgun, was shot by the two store employees. Lee pled guilty to all four counts of...
