News from June 2013
By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and co-author of the Student Loan Affordability Act, released the following statement after Republicans filibustered the measure...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: BARSTOW, CALIF. -A National Park Service employee who was inspecting wildlife guzzlers found four desert bighorn dead on Old Dad Mountain, 15 miles southeast of Baker, California, during the week of May 20. The employee also observed other sick animals that appeared to be weak and unsteady with labored...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Sentence Includes Order to Pay $986,073.03 in Restitution to Business.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: William Shakespeare once said, “Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.".
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations for candidates to serve on the Cotton Board.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today introduced legislation to reform the nation’s K-12 education system. Based on proposals advanced through the committee in the 112th Congress, the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) will restore local control, support more effective teachers, reduce the federal footprint, and empower parents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: James L. Santelle, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Leah M. Kuchta (age: 42) of Mequon, Wisconsin, was sentenced June 5, 2013, to 33 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Charles N. Clevert. Kuchta was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 14, 2012, and charged with six counts alleging tax related offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Nematodes have shown promise as biological control agents in the fight against the western corn rootworm, whose larval stage is a costly pest of corn in the United States and Europe. But current spray methods used to apply the beneficial nematodes can be labor-intensive and water-consuming.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O’Brien today announced a proposed rule to clarify how USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) determines eligibility for financing electric projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 5, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, SHERRON GRACE AMERICAN HORSE, a 38-year-old resident of Ashland and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Anti-pill sweep continues. BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that 21 individuals have been indicted for selling powerful prescription painkillers. The indictments were unsealed following the arrest of each defendant and their subsequent initial appearances in U.S. District...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement following the House’s approval of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2014. Chairman Carper welcomed the approval of the legislation but expressed concern about the House’s decision to divert funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s management fund into other programs...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: Following yesterday’s deposition of Ambassador Thomas Pickering, I urge you once again to hold a public hearing with Ambassador Pickering and other members of the Accountability Review Board (ARB). Members of our Committee and the American public deserve to hear directly from these...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: FLORISSANT, CO -- Shortly after Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument was established 44.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site opened for the 2013 summer season on Wednesday, May 22. Despite rain and cold, over 600 visitors joined with park staff during the site's opening weekend of celebration on May 25 and 26.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area middle school teacher, who allegedly met an undercover operative in his classroom so they could view child pornography, has been arrested after investigators determined that he was distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Abdul Waheed Alex Shittu, 55, a naturalized United States citizen from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been sentenced to 81 months in federal prison following his convictions of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Arturo Reynaga, 29, of Los Lunas, N.M., Joaquin Alire, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., and Jose Lopez-Hernandez, 31, a Mexican national residing in Belen, N.M., made their initial appearance this morning in federal court on a criminal complaint charging them with conspiracy and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. All three remain in federal custody pending detention hearings scheduled for June 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that Edward Palmer, 47, of Phoenix, N.Y., pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Syracuse before the Honorable Frederick J. Scullin, to a felony violation of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7413(c). Palmer is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 30, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -- A coalition that includes the U.S. federal government and over 200 major commercial building sector partners has issued a simple challenge to U.S. manufacturers: if you can build wireless sub-meters that cost less than $100 apiece and enable us to identify opportunities to save money by...
