News from March 2020
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Between March 19 - April 30, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office will conduct the Chain of Craters prescribed burn in the El Malpais National Conservation Area, weather permitting. The burn will be conducted in several phases during this timeframe and consists of approximately 2,500 acres of ponderosa pine, piñon and juniper.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee along with Representatives Ann Wagner, Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and Lois Frankel (D-FL) introduced the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Act, legislation to promote the empowerment, economic self- sufficiency, and prosperity of women globally.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that JAMES A. MOORE, age 32, of Atlanta, Georgia pleaded guilty on March 5, 2020 before U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier to one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: St. Louis -Michael Charles Natoli, 58, Dixon, Missouri, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for distribution of heroin which resulted in death and serious bodily injury. Natoli appeared today in front of U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park is preparing to conduct a prescribed fire in late March or April, weather permitting. The park plans to burn portions of the west slope of Little Round Top (52 acres) and the Munshower field (36 acres) immediately north of Little Round Top. Prescribed fire activity will be completed no later than April 30.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) announced more than $6 million for eight projects to improve energy-intensive manufacturing processes and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the Information Needed for Financial Options Risk Mitigation (INFORM) Act, which would require pension plan sponsors to provide plan participants...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Zimbabwean national, who is facing a felony rape charge, in Boston on Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 55-year-old Akintola Akinmadeyemi to 120 months imprisonment for his role in an estimated $340 million intended-loss fraudulent “sweepstakes" scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
Release: EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Residents of the Chippewa Valley area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® program at Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) from March 23 to 27, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center in the airport terminal.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Flat Rock, NC: On Saturday, March 28, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and the Blue Ridge Humane Society will co-host Sandburg’s first “BARK Ranger Day." Via short training sessions led by a certified dog trainer, visitors and their leashed dogs will learn ways to safely explore park trails. Upon completion of one training session, participants will be sworn in as "BARK Rangers" and receive an official Carl Sandburg Home “BARK Ranger" dog tag.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Thomas Michael Mannion, Jr., age 46, of Parkville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of production of child pornography, and admitted to engaging in sexually explicit conduct with two minor victims.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today Project Learning Tree workshops for educators to be held March 20 and 21 at New Melones Lake. The workshops use an ecosystems-based curriculum and are hosted in collaboration with the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 28, at 2 pm at the Bragg Reservation on Missionary Ridge, 3136 South Crest Place, a park ranger will present a 45- minute hands-on children’s program designed to explore the workings of Civil War artillery. A short ranger presentation will be followed by attendees...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management released a proposed plan to address remaining contamination at the abandoned Red Devil mine, an historical mercury mine site located along the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska. The BLM’s proposed plan, which includes preferred cleanup methods and associated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Jason J. Molina, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), today announced that KYLE FASOLD, 49, of Plainville, was arrested on Friday and charged with child pornography offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: The Furnace Mountain Trail, Trayfoot Mountain Trail and Madison Run Fire Road have re-opened following the containment of the Furnace Mountain Fire in Shenandoah National Park. The fire, which was reported on March 6, 2020, was located on the Furnace Mountain Trail, about 2 miles from...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
