News from August 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Aug. 3, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces flight plans for August 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 31, 2020, William A. Julius (age: 57) of Green Bay and Menominee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment by Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach. In March of this year, a jury found Julius guilty of two counts of arson to a building.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Due to expected weather conditions from Tropical Storm Isaias, all visitor services and programming are cancelled for Tuesday, August 4. Restrooms will also be closed.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua Reedy, 26, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced Friday, July 31 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 42 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. This prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2020...

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Omaha, Neb. - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Sarah Cunningham as superintendent of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Missouri, effective September 27.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Michael Bentley, 45, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He received a sentence of 132 months with a five-year term of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 31, 2020, William A. Julius (age: 57) of Green Bay and Menominee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment by Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach. In March of this year, a jury found Julius guilty of two counts of arson to a building.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park and the Glacier National Park Conservancy are instituting an Idling Awareness Campaign aimed at educating visitors and employees about how they can reduce vehicle emissions in order to decrease pollutants which contribute to health problems and climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging BRIAN MELENDEZ, 31, of West Haven, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Cases over the last few years involving access to facilities, support in health care facilities and educational institutions.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHAZZMAN K. CHUNG, 29, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sexually abusing a minor on the grounds of the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - On July 31, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed an unlawfully present Honduran man wanted by Honduran law enforcement authorities for murder. Saudiel Doblado Carias, 28, was removed to Honduras on an ICE Air charter where he was handed over to Honduran authorities.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting a classified briefing on TikTok and other technology companies with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting to discuss the Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations for the 2020 water year.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the September 2020 Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale List, which includes 38 parcels totaling about 17,302.43 acres. The sale is scheduled to occur online at www.energynet.com starting on Sept. 22, 2020. The proposed parcels are located in Dawson, Sheridan and Richland counties in Montana, and Burke, McKenzie, Williams, Billings and Slope counties in North Dakota.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
Release: Effort to Support Major Fusion Facility at DOE Princeton Laboratory

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President Trump issued an executive order aimed at lowering drug prices...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2020- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will begin its annual distribution of RABORAL V-RG®, an oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait, in select areas in the eastern United States to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies into America’s ...