News from April 2013
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced legislation to promote a global Internet free from government control. The bill, approved by voice vote, contains the same language that unanimously passed the House and Senate last year, elevating it to official U.S policy rather than merely a sense of the Congress in light of continued international efforts to regulate the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing on the discussion draft of H.R. __, the Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2013. Today’s hearing builds on the subcommittee’s work last Congress to set up a state-based regulatory...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, federal authorities arrested German Garcia Cano, owner of GGC Enterprises, Inc., on bribery charges in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme in Maverick County announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Photographer John Ninneman has faced storms, cold, distance, and darkness during his quest to photograph the accomplishments of the Ancestral Puebloan astronomers. Hear his stories in a lecture at the Bureau of Land Management’s Anasazi Heritage Center on Sunday, Apr. 14, at 1 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2013 - Today at the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation legislative hearing, Republican Members stressed the need for the U.S. Forest Service to resume active forest management and discussed several proposals to improve forest health. A lack of forest...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today heard from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on ideas for reforming the traditional Medicare benefit design. Many of the Commission’s recommendations for reform represent policy ideas that carry...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed charging David Donadeo, age 39, formerly of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Dennis Boyles, age 39, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Officials from Los Angeles County and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) are advising visitors that ticks from Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills recently tested positive for Lyme disease. Three separate pools of western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) found along the Coyote Trail were found to be positive.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Statement of Barbara Boxer Hearing on the Nomination of Gina McCarthy to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency April 11, 2013 Today, I welcome the President's nominee for Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy. Gina McCarthy, you are one of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 37 individuals in connection with two related drug trafficking conspiracies based in Austin announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena. A list of the arrested defendants is attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Emerson Flowers, 49, of Collingdale, PA, was charged today by Indictment with passport fraud, and use of a Social Security number assigned on the basis of false information. These offenses arise from the defendant’s attempt to obtain a U.S. Passport on Jan. 18, 2013 using fraudulent identification in that name, announced United States Attorney Zane D. Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Raymond Ahidley, Jr., 27, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, entered a guilty plea this morning to being a felon in possession of a firearm under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England andthe United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Chandara Sam, 30, of Lowell, Massachusetts was arrested yesterday in White River Junction on a charge of distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Keystone, SD: Cavers, adventurers and armchair pioneers are invited to experience the thrill of initial cave exploration through a presentation by climbing and caving pioneer Jan Conn. Sunday April 14, 1:00 - 4:00 PM in the Aldo Leopold room at the Outdoor Campus West, Jan Conn will present a narrative slide show on caving.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today heard from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on ideas for reforming the traditional Medicare benefit design. Many of the Commission’s recommendations for reform represent policy ideas that carry...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Recently in federal court, a 26-year-old man, formerly of St. Paul, was indicted for producing, distributing and possessing child pornography. On April 9, 2013, Douglas Luke Robinette was charged with four counts of production of child pornography, two counts of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL- U.S. District Judge James S. Moody sentenced Rodney L. Carter (27, Tampa) yesterday to twenty years and eight months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess 5 kilograms or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 11, 2013, Duane Kidder, Fort Yates, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
