News from January 2013
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 13-89-ATL (18)
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Allegedly Used Personal Information Stolen from Puerto Rican Residents To File False Tax Returns from Maryland Seeking Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - An attorney formerly practicing in Massachusetts and now living in New York was sentenced today for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a 24-unit building in Dorchester.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Philip Michael Sebolt, 32, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg, Va., was sentenced to life in prison today for advertising child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Douglas Todd Campbell, Jr., 33, of Meridian, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: In 2003, the National Park Service (NPS) completed the Vessel Quota and Operating Requirements Environmental Impact Statement (VQOR EIS). Subsequent regulations delegated the authority to set annual cruise ship quotas to the park superintendent. The VQOR EIS Record of Decision (ROD) states that a determination...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: The recently-released report examines and describes climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems and human economies and communities, as well as the kinds of scientific data, planning tools and resources that coastal communities and resource managers need to help them adapt to these changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Houston Police Officers Emerson Canizales, 26, of Kingwood, and Michael Miceli, 26, of Humble, have been arrested following the return of an indictment charging conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Kanawha County man pleaded guilty in federal court to illegal possession of a firearm. Scott Allen Perry, 42, of South Charleston, Kanawha County, W.Va., was charged in a one-count indictment in October 2012. Perry admitted that on...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today released the following statements in recognition of National School Choice Week (January 27 through February 2)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Tyrone Ricky Freeman, the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Locals 6434 and 434-B, was convicted late this afternoon of federal charges of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the union that represents home healthcare workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Monett, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing cartoons that depicted child pornography. Christjan Bee, 36, of Monett, was sentenced by U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: The electrical power industry - and the equipment makers and calibration laboratories that serve it - need to be able to quantify DC currents of hundreds or thousands of amperes with high precision. Such measurements, among others, are essential to the evolution of the "Smart Grid," a planned nationwide --and eventually global -- power network that uses information technology to deliver electricity efficiently, reliably, and securely.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 GREGORY DEVON OBEY, 28, of Smithfield, North Carolina, was convicted for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy as well as multiple counts of distributing cocaine and crack cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Poultry producers can reduce bacterial cross-contamination in poultry cages by treating the cages with forced air that's been heated to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed Japan’s decision to import more U.S. beef by opening its market to cattle up to 30 months of age. For several years, Japan has only accepted cattle less than 21 months of age. The news follows a trade mission Senator...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: "It is especially appropriate that we unveil these easy-to-use nautical charts as recreational boaters begin to think about their boating adventures for 2013," said Capt. Jon Swallow, chief of NOAA Coast Survey's Navigation Services Branch. "NOAA's nautical charts help to protect lives and property, and boaters should take advantage of these free nautical products."
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery on Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013.
