News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: MARLON JENERRO GREEN, age 41, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to one count of making threatening communications announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Rashika J. Moon, 42, of Carneys Point, New Jersey, was charged today by Information with participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving more than 100 Philadelphia properties and more than $20 million in fraudulent loan proceeds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Moon is charged...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Hot Springs, AR -Let's Move Outside, and have fun!Did you know that this year's National Park Week activities at Hot Springs National Park are all about enjoying the outdoors with walking, hiking, and playing?Take time to explore the lost art of strolling, revisit pedestrianism, and hike for health and to see the park's scenic wonders.There is even a hike for dogs and their owners, and a walk to disconnect for reconnecting to the natural world around us.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed how to provide health care coverage options for individuals with chronic conditions and diseases and examined current challenges to this important goal. The Obama administration initially promised vulnerable...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a legislative hearing on H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, next Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: “Thicker cloud conditions would not have led to the same amount of surface warming," said Matthew Shupe, research meteorologist with NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences offsite link at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. “To understand the region’s future, you’ll need to understand its clouds. Our finding has implications for the fate of ice throughout the Arctic."
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed how to provide health care coverage options for individuals with chronic conditions and diseases and examined current challenges to this important goal. The Obama administration initially promised vulnerable...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man and woman from Pine Ridge, South Dakota have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a Dec. 15, 2012 incident at Pine Ridge involving the theft of over $1,000 in property and for threatening witnesses of the theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, was awarded the 2013 Visionary Voice Award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). The Visionary Voice Award highlights individuals throughout the country who are doing outstanding...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sikeston, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing a Lebanon, Mo., bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Much of what is known about the state of the Earth's oceans, and how they change over time, comes from satellite monitoring of reflected and thermally emitted light from these bodies. Thermally emitted radiation occurs in the infrared spectral region and is the basis for studies of sea surface temperature.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a legislative hearing on H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, next Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee today outlined additional details of a proposal to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. On February...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed how to provide health care coverage options for individuals with chronic conditions and diseases and examined current challenges to this important goal. The Obama administration initially promised vulnerable...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee today outlined additional details of a proposal to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. On February...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly intentionally and knowingly abusing and neglecting three minor children on Dec. 15, 2012 at Pine Ridge, subjecting them to an environment which was injurious to their welfare and threatened them with substantial harm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Robert E. Eldridge 43, of Panama City, was sentenced today to serve 180 months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have taken this to a whole new level by demonstrating* that they can store visual images within quite an ethereal memory device-a thin vapor of rubidium atoms. The effort may prove helpful in creating memory for quantum computers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Alton, Ill., business owner was indicted by a federal grand jury today for distributing more than $3 million worth of foreign Botox and Juvederm in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Matthew Boyd, Chief, Miami Gardens Police Department, announce today’s sentencing of Vladimir Louissant, of Miami...
