News from July 2013
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved with bipartisan support the Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2637). Introduced by Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Donald Keith Colvin, 40, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to 121 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Colvin’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, 5th...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to maliciously attempting to destroy a local children’s autism learning facility by fire and explosive devices, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: New Services Include an ASL Video Series, E-Newsletters, and Continued Ranger Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Republic, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for producing child pornography and for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - --Alexis Espinoza, 30, has entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Edith Warren, a/k/a “Jourdon Warren-McPherson," “Jourdon Edith Reed," “Jourdon Edith Warren-McPherson," “Edith Reed," and “Jourdon Edith Warren," 56, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to nine months in prison followed by six months of home confinement for a scheme to defraud the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Robert S. Terry, 62, of Sherrodsville, Ohio, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute, ranger-led program at Blue Heron Campground about snakes on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. (EDT). Join NPS Ranger Raymond Little at the campfire circle when he talks to park visitors about this fascinating group of unique...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: - Company received more than $2 million in payments from Medicare for misbranded, adulterated and contaminated inhalation medications.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee advanced H.R. 2793, the District of Columbia Financial Efficiency Act by unanimous consent. The legislation was introduced yesterday by Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in response to ongoing financial management and efficiency concerns in D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Incident resulted in the deaths of two area residents and serious injury to a third.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement after Senate approval of a proposal that will lower interest rates for all borrowers who have taken out, or will take out, a new federal student loan after July 1, 2013. As part of the bipartisan compromise, Senator Harkin secured caps on all loans, including an 8.25% cap on all undergraduate loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Former Illinois State Representative Constance ‘Connie’ Howard, today waived indictment and entered a plea of guilty to mail fraud related to her misuse of funds from 2003 to 2007, that she raised on behalf of a charity golf outing she sponsored, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Two Books Offer Early Depictions Of The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Used His Employment With a Residential Mental Health Program To Steal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, on July 23, 2013, DOUGLAS VANCE CROOKED ARM, age 36, and on July 24, 2013, KENNETH G. SHANE, age 45, residents of Crow Agency, pled guilty to conspiracy to traffic in eagles and migratory birds and unlawfully trafficking in migratory birds. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 22, 2013. They are currently released on special conditions.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced legislation that would provide agencies with the tools needed to improve agency coordination on anti-waste and fraud efforts and curb millions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lebanon, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender was indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Wayne Harlan Files...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: It started with a spark -- an interest in green energy. This glimmer of curiosity led Lyle Wilson, an instructor at Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota and U.S. Army veteran, to start researching renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and geothermal. Now sparked by Lyle’s interest, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation are finding new possibilities in their clean energy capabilities.
