News from February 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Today, a group of top Republicans asserted that the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is inappropriately using an exemption clause in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an attempt to hide the alias(es) used by the Administrator. U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that former DeSoto Parish School Board member Bartholomew Claiborne, 25, of Mansfield, pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to distributing cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: “I welcome everyone to our first education hearing of the new Congress. Today’s hearing will focus on No Child Left Behind flexibility waivers to the states.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carl Junction, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving child pornography over the Internet. James Lee Hagerman, 50, of Carl Junction, waived his...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), will launch its new hearing series, “Our Nation of Builders," next Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The series will explore ways to make American manufacturing more competitive in the global marketplace and create jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chair of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee in Innovation, Competitiveness, and Export Promotion, today announced legislation to repeal the medical...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a group of top Republicans asserted that the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is inappropriately using an exemption clause in the Freedom of Information Act in an attempt to hide the alias(es) used by the Administrator. U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, a federal judge sentenced David Ralph Martinez, 27, a non-Indian man from Chimayo, N.M., for robbing a Santa Clara Pueblo man on the Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation in Rio Arriba County, N.M. Martinez will serve 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Martinez also was ordered to pay $148.51 in restitution to the victim of the robbery and $140 to the U.S. New Mexico Credit Union.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sought information on steps taken by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assess and improve upon our nation’s mental health system following previous incidences of mass violence. Following the tragedy in Newtown, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Oversight Hearing on Implementation of Corps of Engineers Water Resources Policies February 7, 2013 Today, we continue this Committee's oversight of the Army Corps of Engineers by looking at its water resources policies and how they impact communities across the nation. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 28-year-old Blaine man was sentenced for committing the Dec. 3, 2011, armed robbery of a convenience store in Mayer, Minnesota. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Demetrius Charles Edward Derden to 170 months in federal prison on one count of interference with commerce by robbery, pursuant to the Hobbs Act. Derden was indicted on Jan. 10, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Aug. 24, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for robbing a Kentucky Fried Chicken and shooting at police as he tried to get away, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), will launch its new hearing series, “Our Nation of Builders," next Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The series will explore ways to make American manufacturing more competitive in the global marketplace and create jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: CORAL GABLES, FL: OnTuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, apanel discussion will take place from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.,at Books & Books in Coral Gables,featuring Artist-in-Residence-in- Everglades (AIRIE) fellows in a discussion about culture in the Everglades.People often associate the Everglades with its abundant natural vistas: The river of grass, mangrove islands and glorious skyscapes. This panel discussion will focus on how people have made expressions of culture in the Everglades.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: BABATUNDE ABIOLA, age 26, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to approximately seven months imprisonment for identity theft, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Feldman imposed three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Miranda Gore has been ordered to prison for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Gore pleaded guilty Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sought information on steps taken by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assess and improve upon our nation’s mental health system following previous incidences of mass violence. Following the tragedy in Newtown, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return by a grand jury of two separate indictments charging Randy C. Johnson (22) and Johnell Ford (21), both inmates of the Florida Department of Corrections, with sending hoax anthrax letters to sitting judges. If convicted, they each face a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. The federal prison sentences may run consecutive to sentences they are currently serving in state custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: BENSON DECEMBER CORIOLANT, 30, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lance M. Africk to 40 years in prison after he was previously convicted by a federal jury of sex trafficking of a child, conspiring with others to sex traffic a child, coercing and enticing an individual...
