News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement on the House Republican Budget proposed by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Please welcome Rick Slade, Monocacy National Battlefield's new superintendent. Rick comes from Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Atlanta, where he served as chief of planning and resource management. There he expanded the park's involvement in river corridor projects, successfully working and collaborating with stakeholders to advance common goals.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Graduate students and early career professionals can gain hands-on field research experience in areas related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) by participating in the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: EVERGLADES CITY, Florida - Celebrate Calusa Days and Florida Archaeology Month on March 23 and 24 at the Gulf Coast Visitor Center of Everglades National Park. Visitors will enjoy a unique opportunity to learn about the prehistory and archaeological resources in the Ten Thousand Islands of southwest...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 37 years in jail and lifetime supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced Tuesday to 188 months in federal prison for robbing an Overland Park bank with a hatchet, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park will be conducting the Hole-in-the-Donut (HID) East prescribed burn on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 (weather permitting). The 1,736 acre prescribed burn began at 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rafael Henriquez Polanco, 30, and his wife, Yanira Lopez, 27, are charged by information, filed today, with a tax fraud and identity theft scheme in which they sought more than $1.7 million in fraudulent tax refunds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Defendant Polanco...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today announced the Subcommittees on Communications and Technology, Health, and Oversight and Investigations will hold a “Health Information Technology" hearing series March 19-21 to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Tulsa, Oklahoma - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr., announced today that six people were sentenced Monday and Tuesday following their guilty pleas to human-trafficking-related charges, including sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and coercion and enticement to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Binghamton, New York, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal counterfeiting laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a jury found two men guilty for murdering a couple on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on New Year’s Day 2011. Following a two-week trial, the jury convicted Geshik-O-Binese Martin, age 30; Edward McCabe Robinson, age 28; both of Red Lake on two...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jose Feliciano Alvarado-Montoya, 42, of Crete, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 12, 2013, in Lincoln, Nebraska, for his role in a conspiracy to obtain payment of fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks. Alvarado-Montoya was sentenced to time...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Emmanuel I. Mekowulu (56, Tampa) yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring with other persons to knowingly and intentionally distribute and dispense, and cause the distribution and dispensing of Oxycodone outside of a legitimate...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today announced the Subcommittees on Communications and Technology, Health, and Oversight and Investigations will hold a “Health Information Technology" hearing series March 19-21 to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Man Sentenced To 84 Months Imprisonment For Possession Of Firearm And Failure To Register As A Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - April Johnston, a former corrections officer, pled guilty today to a federal bribery charge for accepting money to bring contraband into a District of Columbia correctional facility, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today announced the Subcommittees on Communications and Technology, Health, and Oversight and Investigations will hold a “Health Information Technology" hearing series March 19-21 to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Travis Gayle Smith, 40, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with five other senators are demanding answers from Gina McCarthy, nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on her involvement with Dr. Al Armendariz, former Region 6 EPA administrator, to shame states and punish traditional energy producers such as oil, natural gas and utilities like coal.
