News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Spring is in the air, and the Upper Susitna Valley is celebrating it and this planet we call home during the 13th Annual Earth Day Celebration taking place on Saturday, April 20. Everyone is invited to come enjoy the changing of the season, and the activities suitable for all ages taking place from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm at the Sheldon Community Arts Hangar in downtown Talkeetna.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s rigorous oversight of the new health care law, committee leaders are seeking information on the delays and missed deadlines that have plagued the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s implementation. In a letter to Gary Cohen, Deputy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio today, 24-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia member Javier “Javi" Guerrero was sentenced to three consecutive life terms plus 210 months in federal prison for committing racketeering offenses and assaulting a guard at the GEO Correctional Facility in Val Verde County announced United States Attorney...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) has moved to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) to the Subcommittee on Health.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: This afternoon, the Obama administration announced the appointment of Melanie Roussell to the position of Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Following this announcement, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 24-year-old Hastings man pleaded guilty to producing child pornography. Mark Matthew Cortes pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography. Cortes, who was indicted on Dec. 3, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Acting Superintendent Darrell Echols announces the temporary off-road vehicle (ORV) access closure of Cape Point area in accordance with the requirements of the ORV Management Plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Amtrak’s 2014 budget request will be the focus of a Thursday hearing chaired by Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Michael D. Cole, 53, Shelly R. Myogeto, 35, Julia A. Snow, 51, and Gregory S. Minor, 33, all of Mt. Vernon, IL, were indicted on March 21, 2013, on methamphetamine related charges in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Over the past four years, I have had the honor and privilege of serving with Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute, where she has been integral in the day-to-day operation and management of the third largest Federal department in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 9, 2013--Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced today that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the city of Millbrook, Ala., that, if approved by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, will resolve the department’s complaint alleging sex discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – With the annual tax filing deadline approaching on Apr. 15, the Justice Department today announced highlights of its work during the past year to defend and enforce the nation’s tax laws. The Tax Division has worked together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to carry out their combined ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Eric Majette, 52, a tax return preparer and owner and operator of the Berrisford Group, located in Somerville, N.J., pleaded guilty today to corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue laws and to preparing a false tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today reached an agreement with Milestone Management Company, a nationwide residential property management firm headquartered in Dallas, resolving claims that the staffing company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) special agent in charge and another special agent were indicted in the Southern District of Texas late yesterday for their roles in a scheme to falsify records and to obstruct an internal field office inspection, announced ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON--Payments to 4.2 million borrowers are scheduled to begin on April 12 following an agreement reached by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board with 13 mortgage servicers.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris will host a Web-based question-and-answer session on the U.S. Department of Labor's fiscal year 2014 budget request at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 10. He will be joined by assistant secretaries and senior staff.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – Rox Coal Inc., which operates the Geronimo Mine in Somerset County, Pa., has been found in violation of a mandatory electrical hazard safety standard by an administrative law judge with the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. The ALJ deemed the violation "quintessentially flagrant" and ordered the company to pay a $110,000 civil penalty.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $285,804 National Emergency Grant increment to continue re-employment assistance for about 400 workers affected by layoffs while working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state.
