News from August 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced more than $2.3 million in Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards to 13 U.S. small businesses. SBIR awards provide funding to help develop technologies that could lead to commercial and public benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal charges were unsealed today against two Chicago men for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions in late 2008 and 2009 by agreeing to assist Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others in an effort to lift economic sanctions against them in exchange for $3.4 million. The defendants, PRINCE...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a white paper outlining the case for exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and urging swift action on permit approvals before the nation misses a historic opportunity. The paper, entitled The Narrowing Window: America’s Opportunity to Join the Global Gas Trade, includes in-depth analysis that leads to a set of pro-growth policy recommendations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mechell D. Toles, 44, of Collierville, TN, was sentenced today by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon Phipps McCalla to three years in prison following her guilty plea to one count of health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Suit Alleges That Westchester’s Water District No. 1, Which Supplies Water To Residents Of Municipalities Including Scarsdale, White Plains, And Yonkers, Fails To Fully Treat A Significant Portion Of The Water It Supplies For The Parasite Cryptosporidium.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Department of Commerce's (DOC) 2012 Technology Transfer Report. The annual report summarizes the technology transfer activities of its three federal laboratories: NIST, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: FRUITA, CO - Colorado National Monument will host a third listening session at the Glade Park Community Building on Tuesday, August 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. This series of meetings is designed to gather input from the public about the types of visitor uses, events or activities at the monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former softball coach at Silverado High School in Henderson, Nev., has been sentenced to 284 months in federal prison and lifetime supervised release for his convictions for having sexual relations with one of the female players and using his cellular telephone camera to photograph the sexual acts, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department released two new reports today showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind market -- increasing America’s share of clean, renewable energy and supporting tens of thousands of jobs nationwide. According to these reports, the United States continues to be one of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Steve Linick, Inspector General, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Office of Inspector General, and Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner, State of Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation, announce that Patrick J. Mansell, 68...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga has announced the availability of two prospectuses for business opportunities in the park, to provide lodging, food services, grocery stores, retail, transportation, mule rides, an RV campground, a service station and other...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: ALBANY, NY- Defendants Timothy M. McGinn and David L. Smith will be sentenced on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. McGinn will be sentenced at 10 am; Smith will be sentenced at 2 pm. Both sentencings will take place before United States District Judge David N. Hurd at the Alexander Pimie Federal Building, 10 Broad Street, Utica, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Tracie jones mathis, 47, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, to 57 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Additionally, she was ordered to pay $1,094,742.00 in restitution joint and severally with Evelyn Gomez-Allen.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released the following statement on reports that U.S Department of Justice has filed charges against Ahmed Abu Khattalah and others allegedly behind the murder of four Americans in the Benghazi terrorist attacks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White Earth, Minnesota, man convicted of burglary was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Lucian Ioan Belean, 30, a Romanian national, was sentenced today in United States District Court to two years of probation for making fraudulent statements in an application for immigration registration, a misdemeanor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald E. Bush...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of KRISTIN DAVIS, a candidate for New York City Comptroller...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 6, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that projects in 17 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive loan and grant assistance to create jobs and boost economic development in rural areas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: There may be more kinds of stuff than we thought. A team of researchers has reported possible evidence for a new category of solids, things that are neither pure glasses, crystals, nor even exotic quasicrystals. Something else.*
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jon Craig Dillon, a/k/a JC Dillon, a/k/a Jon Craig Goings, age 25, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on Aug. 2, 2013, and pled guilty to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault by Striking, Beating or Wounding.
