News published on Federal Newswire in May 2019

News from May 2019


Finding of No Significant Impact Signed for the Transcanyon Water Distribution Pipeline project in Grand Canyon National Park

News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Today, the National Park Service finalized a plan to provide a reliable water delivery system, improve water quality, and meet water supply needs at the South Rim and in the Cross Canyon Corridor in Grand Canyon National Park.


News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that, KACEY HICKS, 34, of Henderson, North Carolina was convicted in federal court following a 2-day trial before Chief United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle. The jury heard evidence that HICKS kept a residence in the Flint...


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Joseph McLaughlin was sentenced to six months of federal incarceration, to be followed by six months of home confinement at a drug rehabilitation shelter in Beckley, West Virginia for the felony offense of fraudulently obtaining Social Security Administration benefits, announced United...


News Release: Savannah man has long record with multiple firearms-related offenses.


News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Adam Ray Dodson, 38, of Winchester, Kentucky, was sentenced to 79 months in federal prison on Monday, by United States District Judge Joseph M. Hood, for distributing quantities of methamphetamine and selling firearms in Clark County, Kentucky, in October and November of 2017.


News Release: Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses, several of whom traveled long distances to be here today for this important hearing on paid family and medical leave.


News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is preparing to move a 62-feet long steel truss bridge. The move will take place as soon as weather allows. The bridge crosses a dynamic, unfordable, branch of the Taiya River at Mile 2.4 on the trail. The shoreline supporting the bridge is severely eroded on the east abutment. Park staff plan to move the bridge to a more established section of river, approximately 200-feet upstream from its current location.


Grassley Statement on Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Advertising

News Release: Millions of Americans rely on life-saving prescription medicine.


Wausau Man Sentenced to 11 Years for Methamphetamine Conspiracy

News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Antron Allen, 34, Wausau, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 11 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. Allen pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 28, 2018.


Park Hosts American Indian Guest Artist Program at Colter Bay 2019

News Release: MOOSE, WY - Grand Teton National Park is hosting American Indian Artists at the Colter Bay Visitor Center this summer to share their traditional and contemporary art with park visitors. Participating artists will demonstrate and share the cultural traditions of their tribes through art forms such as painting, weaving, pottery, beadwork, and musical instruments.


Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization

News Release: A Fort Worth man today pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas.


Grassley, Durbin Statement on HHS Rule to Require Disclosure of Prescription Drug Prices in TV Ads

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois today issued the following statement following an announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the issuance of final regulations requiring pharmaceutical companies to list prices of their prescription drugs in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements...


Weather-permitting, Yellowstone's South Entrance & select roads open Friday, May 10, 2019

News Release: * South Entrance to West Thumb, Lake Village to West Thumb, West Thumb to Old Faithful (Craig Pass), Tower Junction to Tower Fall, will open Friday, May 10, at 8 a.m. to public motorists.


Engel Remarks at Full Committee Hearing on China

News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following open statement at a full committee hearing on China...


News Release: SOUTH BEND -Rashee Herron, age 27, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr., upon his plea of guilty to possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and possessing one or more firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U. S. Attorney Kirsch.


Brockton Man Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud and Abuse

News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with an August 2018 computer intrusion of a Massachusetts company.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANDREEA DUMITRU, a/k/a “Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu," an immigration attorney based in Queens, New York, was sentenced to five years in prison in connection with her operation of a scheme to submit fraudulent...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement in response to the Iran regime's announcement today that they will halt compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Deal:


Chicago Man Wanted for Murder Added to the FBI’s List of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

News Release: Chicago Man Wanted for Murder Added to the FBI’s List of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.


News Release: Memphis, TN - On May 6, 2019, the United States Marshal Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force (Memphis), and the Memphis Police Department’s Old Allen Task Force (Charlie) arrested Ardarius Walton (01/17/1998) at the 1400 block of Briercrest Lane on charges of Attempted First Degree Murder.