News published on Federal Newswire in June 2019

News from June 2019


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.


U.S. Marshals Arrest Fugitive Sex Offender in Springfield, Missouri

News Release: Springfield, MO - U.S. Marshal Mark S. James, Western District of Missouri announces the arrest of fugitive James H. Eslinger on June 10, 2019.


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the first allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.


Murray, Slotkin Lead Colleagues In Honoring Anniversary of Title IX, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) led their colleagues in introducing a resolution honoring the 47th Anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments...


News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - - If you take a trip to Cape Lookout National Seashore, you will notice all of the temporary beach closures. Currently, there are 19 out of 47 miles of beach closed to motor vehicles due to wildlife, from nesting birds to sea turtles. 28 miles of beach, and 40 miles of backroad remain open to vehicles.


Witness List: Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry

News Release: 10:00 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. Dr. Shefali Mehta, Executive Director, Soil Health Partnership, National Corn Growers Association, Washington, D.C. Mr. Nathan Anderson, Board Secretary, Practical Farmers of Iowa, Aurelia, Iowa. Mr. Ian Cunningham, Secretary/ Treasurer,...


Florence Assistant U.S. Attorney Receives DOJ Office of the Inspector General Award

News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has presented Assistant United States Attorney A. Bradley Parham with an award for his outstanding contributions to the mission of the OIG. Parham...


Practices to Better Combat Trafficking in Persons to Reduce the Risk of Trafficking in Post-Conflict or Post-Disaster Areas

Release: This report is submitted in accordance with Section 204(a) of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018.


News Release: CINCINNATI - Yosbel Ponce Bernal, 26, has been charged with using gas pump skimmers in Butler and Hamilton counties. Ponce is a Cuban national with a Florida address. He was arrested in Louisville, Ky. on Friday.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Cameron, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.


McCaul Statement on Administration’s Sanctioning of Iranian Supreme Leader

News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement about President Trump’s new sanctions on the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran and leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.


Retired Massachusetts State Trooper Sentenced in Overtime Abuse Investigation

News Release: BOSTON - A retired Massachusetts State Police Trooper was sentenced today in connection with collecting over $29,000 in overtime pay that he did not work.


Hampden Man Pleads Guilty to Credit Union Robbery

News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ronald Tilley, 59, of Hampden, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to robbing a credit union.


News Release: Berlin, MD- Late Friday afternoon, June 21, 2019, N2BHS-AL (“Ms. Macky") gave birth to a bay pinto colt. The new foal, N2BHS-ALR, and band live most of the year in the very busy developed area and campgrounds. For this reason, the National Park Service expressly reminds visitors that it is essential to remain a minimum of a bus length (40’) away from the wild horses at all times.


Brownsburg Man Sentenced in Terrorism Case

News Release: Indianapolis - Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney, announced today that Akram Musleh, 21, of Brownburg, Indiana, has been sentenced to 100 months’ imprisonment in connection with his plot to travel from the United States to Syria and join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).


News Release: Two Physicians and Two Registered Nurses Indicted in Mississippi Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Scheme.


Two More Texas Men Sentenced for Stealing 654 Firearms from UPS Trailers in Springfield

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two Texas men have been sentenced in federal court for stealing 654 firearms from United Parcel Service trailers in Springfield, Mo., en route to Bass Pro Shops.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a markup on Wednesday, June 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to mark up H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Loretta Darlene Stewart-Cabrera, also known as Loretta Dexter, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.