News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Franklin, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of failure to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to participate in DOE's inaugural Collegiate Wind Competition. The Collegiate Wind Competition is a forum for undergraduate college students of multiple disciplines to investigate innovative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, OREGON - On January 8, 2013, Tamara Diane Brown, 41, of Eugene, Oregon, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Eugene, admitting her involvement in a scheme to sell illegally obtained cellphones through the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jack Ray Carr of Baton Rouge, La., was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in federal prison for one count of corruptly interfering with the due administration of the Internal Revenue laws, four counts of filing false income tax returns, and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Dickinson was nominated by President Obama in July 2012 and confirmed by unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate on Jan. 1, 2013. She took the oath of office late yesterday from U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips, the former U.S. Attorney.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: John J. Tracy, chief technology officer of The Boeing Company and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations and Technology, has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT). Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher selected Tracy to serve a three-year term on the agency's primary private-sector policy advisory group.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Demetrio Juan Gonzales, 40, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised released for violating the civil rights of an individual in his custody when he struck and choked the victim in the shower room/dress out area of MDC. Gonzales pleaded guilty in Oct. 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Boston - A Bourne woman was charged today with stealing drugs from a home for veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Criminal charges of receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct were filed against two men in unrelated cases, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Petersburg resident was sentenced in federal court in Juneau to 12 years in federal prison for the distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Draft Environmental Impact Statements for Merced River and Tuolumne River Available for Public Review.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Herman Peterson, 58, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, East St. Louis Division, for defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Browning, Montana, man charged with Failure to Pay Legal Child Support was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2013, by US District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Timothy L. Black Weasel, age 28, was sentenced to 3 years of unsupervised probation, a $100 special assessment to the Victim Assistance Fund, and child support restitution in the amount of $15,718.21.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today announced that USDA has awarded loans and grants to 12 organizations to construct, purchase and rehabilitate rural, multi-family, farm labor housing properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Bradford, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal explosives laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: GREENBELT -, Md. - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Luis Alberto
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: The Gateway National Recreation Area Fort Hancock 21st Century Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting January 23-24, 2013 at the Ocean Place Resort and Spa in Long Branch, N.J. (not at Monmouth University, as stated in the Federal Register). The Committee was established to provide recommendations for the historic reuse of 38 historic buildings in the Fort Hancock Historic Landmark District within Gateway's Sandy Hook Unit.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Communicating with light may soon get a lot easier, hints recent research* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), where scientists have potentially found a way to overcome a longstanding barrier to cleaner signals.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) projects were completed and updated in the Facilities Information Management System (FIMS) this year. FIMS is DOE’s real property database that stores data related to land and anything permanently affixed to it, such as buildings...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Discover Your National Parks. Wupatki National Monument offers Guided Discovery Hikes. Join us for a guided hike, and discover for yourself what makes Wupatki National Monument a unique and beautiful place. Explore Wupatki's open grasslands, red rock geology and ancient pueblos on a guided back country...
