News from November 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NOAA today is announcing new strategies to dramatically expand the agency’s application of four emerging science and technology focus areas - NOAA Unmanned Systems, Artificial Intelligence, ‘Omics, and the Cloud - to guide transformative advancements in the quality and timeliness of NOAA science, products and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Queens, New York, man today admitted impersonating a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Alfonz Vei, 45, of Dover, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Randall G. Scott, age 50, of Richland County, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful user of a controlled substance. Senior United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 44-year-old Chicago, Illinois, man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Devin Herman has been sentenced for attempting to have sex with someone he believed was an 11-year-old girl he met on the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida,.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - When law enforcement agencies do not honor ICE detainers or simple notification requests, the individuals they release, who often have significant criminal histories, are turned out into an unsuspecting community, free to continue their criminal behavior and seek out new victims. Such is the case of Julio Cruz-Velazquez, a citizen of Mexico who is in the United States illegally and now charged with murdering a man, as he lay asleep in his own home, Nov. 3.
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, today issued the following statement on the release of a State Department Inspector General report on the Trump Administration’s mistreatment of career Department employees...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE). The Senate previously confirmed Mr. Brouillette to be Deputy Secretary with a strong bipartisan vote of 79-17 on Aug. 3, 2017, and he has served in that role since then. Current Secretary Rick Perry has announced he will depart DOE on December 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: CHARLSTON, W.Va. - A Wood County man was sentenced to prison for a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Robert Adams, 34, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Adams is currently in state prison serving a sentence of three to fifteen years. He will begin serving his federal sentence after completing his state sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: A Detroit area pharmacist was convicted yesterday in federal court in Detroit on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and individual counts of unlawful distribution of opioids, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Queens, New York, man today admitted impersonating a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal. “Our Committee will be debating multiple bills today, including the highly partisan and secretly written H.R. 3, Speaker Pelosi’s Fewer Cures for Patients Act. “This is legislation that will ensure lost lifesaving cures, lost jobs, and a nation that no longer leads the world...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California delivered the following statement today at the Subcommittee’s hearing on safeguarding American agriculture from wild, invasive, and non-native species.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: New Orleans, LA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Task Force New Orleans in partnership with the New Orleans Police Department, LA State Police, Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, LA Probation and Parole, and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office have just completed...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Eisenhower National Historic Site invites you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. Tis the season to be jolly as the Eisenhower home will be decorated for Christmas, Friday, Nov. 29, through Dec. 31, 2019. The holiday celebration includes a reception on Saturday, December 7, complete with cider and cookies making spirits bright courtesy of Gettysburg Tours, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Elias Deshawnte Mills and Ralph Knox II were each sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison and four years supervised release for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and a detectible amount of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced DAQUAN MADRID PRIDGEN, 27, of Whiteville, North Carolina, to life imprisonment plus an additional ten years imprisonment...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- New River Gorge National River invites members of the public who have an interest in climbing at New River Gorge National River and Gauley River National Recreation Area to the autumn climbing public meeting. The event will be held on December 7, 2019, from 5:30-7:30pm at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center.
