News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2019
News Release: "SPRING DAY OF SERVICE": Show Your Support for Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site with Clean-Up Activities on April 13.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska released a ruling that reinstates President Obama’s withdrawal of the vast majority of the Beaufort Sea and all of the Chukchi Sea from responsible oil and gas development.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Washington - Special programs and services offered by the National Park Service during the 2019 National Cherry Blossom Festival are now underway, including the Cherry Blossom Festival Tidal Basin Welcome Area, festival-related lantern walks, and ranger talks and tours around the Tidal Basin and National Mall. National Park Service festival events will be held daily through April 9, and on Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14. All activities are free of charge.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement following news reports that the government of Saudi Arabia has temporarily released three of the 11 women activists who are imprisoned and currently on trial in Saudi Arabia:
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Scranton, PA: Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) will be open daily from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. beginning Sunday, March 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on March 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Today Superintendent Wayne Prokopetz announced a new public feral hog trapping program at Big Thicket National Preserve. Starting on May 1, 2019, preserve staff will issue free hog trapping permits to interested community members. An information session will be held prior to the start of the trapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed a pair of new federal rulings in Alaska finding President Trump’s environmental attacks not just legally void, but illustrative of the wider illegality of the administration’s deregulatory approach. The rulings - both by Sharon Gleason...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Civil War and Emancipation Day 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that three Pierre, South Dakota, individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the designation of the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (NCA), honoring the NCA’s positive impact on the local community and visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Discharging a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary was sentenced on March 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sturgis, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender was sentenced on March 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: San Salvador, El Salvador-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary; Zoe Lofgren, Chairwoman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship; Pramila Jayapal, Vice Chair of the Immigration...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - During the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) asked Secretary DeVos to identify the last time the Department of Education approved a “borrower defense" claim to provide relief for students cheated or defrauded by predatory colleges, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that three Pierre, South Dakota, individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
