News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Four Topeka men have been charged in a series of commercial robberies, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan Kimball announced today that public comment is requested on proposed fee increases for backcountry camping. The comment period runs through March 15, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: To speed development and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) for pediatrics, a group of experts from industry, academia and government convened by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has focused its attention on three key audiences-records-system vendors and developers, small-group pediatric medical practices and children's hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: A man who distributed and possessed child pornography pled guilty on March 4, 2013, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men and the import-export company they allegedly used to move millions of dollars linked to illegal activity from the United States to Mexico are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon after being indicted on federal charges of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and structuring cash transactions.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding the Transportation Security Administration's announcement today of a policy change for prohibited items...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing on the Affordable Care Act. We are always pleased to discuss our landmark health care reform law, which will expand health coverage to 27 million Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Jorge Armando Cisneros, 34, of Medford, Oregon, yesterday to 15 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Justin Miller, 30, also of Medford, was previously sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the same offense.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the death of Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, College Park, have built a practical, high-efficiency nanostructured electron source. Described in the journal Nanotechnology*, this new, patent-pending technology could lead to improved microwave communications and radar, and more notably to new and improved X-ray imaging systems for security and health-care applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Ronald E. Slauson (73, Belleview) to 4 years in federal prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Slauson to forfeit computers and computer items relating to such criminal activity. Slauson pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Jermaine Miller, age 29, of Baltimore, today to 134 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled, “North Korea’s Criminal Activities: Financing the Regime, " THIS MORNING at 10 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Building upon the success of last November's "Forensics@NIST 2012" symposium, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering three upcoming educational and skills-building events-two workshops followed by a conference-for forensic science professionals. All of the events will be free to attend and viewable via live webcasts.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 120,166 visitors to Congaree National Parkspent $2,928,000 in communities surrounding the park.This spending supported 48 jobs in the local area.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a former Chairman of the Western Hemisphere subcommittee released the following statement regarding the passing of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The statement follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: On Monday, March 4, Manuel Hernandez, age 53, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to violating the federal False Claims Act, Title 18 U.S. Code Section 287, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and James K. Beauchamp, Regional Special Agent in Charge, Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Charles Dewayne Loper, 35, of Forest, Mississippi, Willie Carlos Johnson, 25, of Forest, Mississippi, and Scottland R. Stewart, 28, of Lake, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the President’s sequestration cuts go into effect, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released today a report detailing the growth in the backlog unimplemented recommendations from agency inspectors general.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Che M. Brown, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to three months of incarceration on a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from a scheme in which he submitted false documents to a mortgage lending service to win approval of a modification on a mortgage for his residence.
