News from June 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA-04), Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, urged the Administration to start over on their proposal to list 66 coral species as threatened or endangered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Marcus Mickle, 21, of Columbia, S.C., has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for a conspiracy related to cocaine and marijuana trafficking and for possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and David Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Miami, announced that Aquatic Trading Company, Inc. (ATC), a Florida...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement today in response to the Obama administration’s spectrum initiative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Thomas Daniel Sanchez, age 25, of Larimer County, was sentenced earlier this week by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 84 months (7 years) in federal prison for threatening the President of the United States, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, and assaulting an FBI agent, U.S.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 17, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will continue its investigation into the Biowatch program. Also on Tuesday, the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: To enhance the transparency and increase public involvement in the western Oregon planning process, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is releasing the Purpose and Need statement for the Resource Management Plans (RMP) for Western Oregon. The Purpose and Need statement identifies the reason for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Albany, New York - HENRY J. RAUCHE, III, age 28, of Delmar, New York, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn to 78 months of imprisonment for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Brian R. Crowell...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement today in response to the Obama administration’s spectrum initiative...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In order to facilitate greater review by the public and key stakeholders, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it is reopening the public comment period for proposed revisions to its commercial oil shale regulations. Notice of the new 30-day comment period is published in today’s Federal Register. Public comments will now be accepted until July 15, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the federal government’s mental health programs as well as examine oversight of specific...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the federal government’s mental health programs as well as examine oversight of specific...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Giving premature babies small doses of a bile acid might help the newborns avoid a liver disease, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) physiologist Douglas G. Burrin and his colleagues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The federal jury that voted in favor of death for drug kingpin Kaboni Savage, today voted in favor of life for Savage co-defendant Steven Northington, 41. Savage was formally sentenced to death last week by U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick. He is the first defendant in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: On June 4-5, 2013, NIST hosted the Measurement Science and Standards in Forensic Handwriting Analysis Conference in collaboration with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences-Questioned Document Section, American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Shiloh National Military Park Superintendent John Bundy proudly announces the premiere of a new interpretive film, "Corinth Crossroads: A Town Amidst War." The premiere viewing of the new film is scheduled for Thursday evening, June 20, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., at the park's Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, located at 501 West Linden Street in Corinth, Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “On June 14, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to New York to meet with business community leaders and state and local officials to discuss the need for commonsense immigration reform, which is critical to our nation’s economic health and prosperity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into an interim settlement agreement with the State of Rhode Island and the City of Providence that will resolve violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for approximately 200 Rhode Islanders with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Robert Ranieri, 37, of Glendora, N.J., pleaded guilty today to committing loan sharking activities on behalf of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra (LCN) Family.
