News from May 2019
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 4.1 million visitors to Yellowstone in 2018 spent $512.6 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 7,089 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $647.1 million.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2019
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that John Kelvin Conner, 63, of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to nearly four years (46 months) imprisonment, three years supervised release, ordered to forfeit $14,923 and pay an additional $14,923 in restitution by United States...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2019
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is releasing the results of two national studies that examine antimicrobial use and stewardship on beef feedlots and on large swine operations during 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - With the summer months approaching, John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced continued progress in combating violent crime through a series of targeted strategies as part of the revitalized Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an 18-count superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Also Admitted Violating His Supervised Release for Previous Federal Sex Offense Convictions of Traveling with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Benjamin Jaramillo Hernandez, 69, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for committing a hate crime targeting St. Mary Catholic Church in Eugene in September 2018 and illegally possessing ammunition. The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams of the District of Oregon.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that visitors to Grand Teton National Park in 2018 spent $629 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 8,620 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $792 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Brannon Finney, 32, of Bellingham, Washington, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Scoble after having pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful discharge of a pollutant, a violation of the Clean Water Act. The Court ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: A Macedonia man who claimed to be a financial planner but defrauded three elderly people out of nearly $575,000 was sentenced to more than six years in prison.
By DOL Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), introduced the Second Look at Drug Patents Act of 2019, legislation to improve the process for challenging sham drug patents and remove obstacles that can keep lower cost generic drugs from being available to patients and families.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Kalispell man who admitted drug trafficking and firearms crimes after law enforcement seized meth from his Billings hotel room last year was sentenced today to 12 years in prison and to five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, June 8, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct artillery programs at Point Park on Lookout Mountain. Demonstrations, each lasting approximately 30 minutes, are scheduled at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm. Admission to Point Park is $7 per adult, ages 16 and over, youth, ages 15 and under, are free.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to identity theft and distributing fentanyl and cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after the Senate passed $19.1 billion bipartisan, comprehensive disaster relief legislation.
By State Newswire | May 23, 2019
Release: This separate section on Xinjiang is included given the scope and severity of reported religious freedom violations specific to the region this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Join Law Enforcement from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. in Cleveland Public Square on Thursday, May 23rd.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 23, 2019 - The final person charged last year in a in a conspiracy to obtain and distribute oxycodone in the Nashville area has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
