News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public scoping comments on a proposed expansion of the Hard Rock Main Pit aggregate mine south of Salida in Chaffee County, Colorado. The proposal is based on a request from Hard Rock Paving & Redi-Mix, Inc. (Hard Rock) to expand the boundaries of their current mine operation, which is currently located on private and the BLM lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Nadine Jacques, 46, of Pembroke, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to methamphetamine trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON-Transportation Security Administration officers detected firearms in carry-on bags at a rate three times higher this past July than the same month in 2019, though passenger volume is significantly lower.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released a statement following the bipartisan Senate passage of the PIPES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Timothy Hummel, age 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers. Hummel made his initial appearance remotely while free on bond. His bond was continued at the hearing’s conclusion. The Denver office of the FBI and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: An anesthesiologist at the center of the $200 million Forest Park Medical Center fraud has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $82.9 million in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jerry Collins, 40, and Tyree Lamont Holmes, 28, both of Philadelphia, PA, were indicted for armed robbery of a Garda armored truck on the 3500 block of Market Street in the University City section of West Philadelphia just over one year ago.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Ashford, WA - Superintendent Chip Jenkins announced today that Mount Rainier National Park will begin public engagement for a transportation and visitor use management planning process for the Nisqually (Ashford area entrance) to Paradise travel corridor. Several opportunities will be provided to solicit...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
Release: Projects will Advance Artificial Intelligence through Greater Data Access
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROMEATRIUS MOSS, 40, a nurse and former Air Force Major stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring TRICARE beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. Moss was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $622,459.00.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bradley fire grew by only 100-acres due to firefighter efforts and aviation support which held the fire along the northern section of the Long Creek drainage as it tried to burn towards Tin Cup Creek and Little Long Creek. The Bradley fire is currently 1,700 acres and 10% contained.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: VERNAL, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vernal Field Office announced today that is has approved the conveyance of 790.02 acres known as the Ashley Springs Property, to Uintah County. This conveyance is a result of President Donald Trump signing into law the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (P.L. 116-9).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted two Union County, New Jersey, men for allegedly committing multiple armed robberies from August 2018 through February 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released a statement following the bipartisan Senate passage of the PIPES Act.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released a statement following the bipartisan Senate passage of the PIPES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a suburban man of threatening a law enforcement officer and posting similarly threatening messages on social media.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Reginald Milligan was sentenced to 37 months in prison for possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Jones, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months of incarceration for his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: DENVER - A Colorado man pleaded guilty today to threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
