News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: DENVER - A settlement agreement was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver resolving a complaint alleging that two employers, Delaware Resource Group of Oklahoma LLC (DRG), and FlightSafety Services Corporation (FlightSafety), violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved Senate amendments to the bipartisan Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, H.R. 307, sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) by a vote of 370-28. The bill, which is now headed to the president’s desk, helps families, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Walter Eugene Rogers, 33, of Watauga, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 180 months in federal prison and a five-year term of supervised release, following his guilty plea in November 2012 to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Erick McDonald, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Two Grey Hills, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to abusive sexual contact charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ernest Moniz to be the next Secretary of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 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, " TOMORROW at 10 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The National Park Service (NPS) will offer a number of visitor services during the 2013 National Cherry Blossom Festival (NCBF), including special festival-related lantern walks, ranger talks throughout the Mall and even pet-friendly tours, as well as stage performances. NPS festival events will be held from March 23 through April 7, 2013 and all events on NPS property are free of charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week pressed the Food and Drug Administration to provide insight on how they plan to regulate mobile medical applications. Committee leaders are concerned that FDA may subject more smartphones and mobile apps to regulation as medical devices, which could result in their being taxed under Obamacare and harm the innovation and economic benefits of the U.S. mobile marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: Second Bank Officer Charged With Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: Boston - As part of an ongoing investigation into extortion and illegal gaming in Boston’s Chinatown, a Quincy man was sentenced today for running an illegal gambling business. The investigation included a court-authorized wiretap on the defendant’s phone and a series of consensual video-recordings made inside gambling dens.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two people from Rapid City, South Dakota convicted of Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods and Services were sentenced on Feb. 22, 2013 by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge man was indicted by a federal grand jury for aiding and abetting in the assault of another man at Pine Ridge on Oct. 16, 2012.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week pressed the Food and Drug Administration to provide insight on how they plan to regulate mobile medical applications. Committee leaders are concerned that FDA may subject more smartphones and mobile apps to regulation as medical devices, which could result in their being taxed under Obamacare and harm the innovation and economic benefits of the U.S. mobile marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Billy Michael Grimes, 51, of Pampa, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 96 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,800 in restitution for committing the armed robbery of a credit union in Pampa in September 2012. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee today sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Air and Radiation, Assistant Administrator, Gina McCarthy, seeking the science underpinning new air quality rules and criticizing the agency's lack of transparency and use of secret data.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: Deer Lodge, Montana - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 20,293 visitors to Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site spent $752,000 in communities surrounding the national historic site. This spending supported 11 jobs in the local area.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week pressed the Food and Drug Administration to provide insight on how they plan to regulate mobile medical applications. Committee leaders are concerned that FDA may subject more smartphones and mobile apps to regulation as medical devices, which could result in their being taxed under Obamacare and harm the innovation and economic benefits of the U.S. mobile marketplace.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ernest Moniz to be the next Secretary of Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved Senate amendments to the bipartisan Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, H.R. 307, sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) by a vote of 370-28. The bill, which is now headed to the president’s desk, helps families, ...
