News from November 2013
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve announces the successful launch of a new atmospheric monitoring station funded by a 2012 Impact Grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. The project was to design, acquire and install a...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a third woman from Carbon County pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following remarks for the full Committee hearing entitled Cyber Side-Effects: How Secure is the Personal Information Entered into the Flawed Healthcare.gov?:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Alisa Grisson has pleaded guilty to one count of making a false claim against the government, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Ohio man who possessed a loaded pistol and powerful prescription pain pills in January 2013 was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Thomas William Dyer, Jr., 58, of Columbus, previously pleaded guilty in July to carrying a loaded...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 123,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing examining work by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to investigate the possibility of expanding unlicensed...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today continued its examination of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with a review of S. 1009, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act. The legislation, authored by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and the late Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), represents a strong bipartisan effort to modernize the regulation of chemicals in commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Nov. 12, 2013, Marlene Lucille Moore, a 61 year-old resident of Glenwood, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to six months in prison followed by six months of home confinement for theft of funds from the Social Security Administration, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nicholas Michael Jackson, 36, of Boone, Iowa, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Justin William Russell, 27, of Sandpoint, and Michael Alan Briggs, 43, of Hayden, were sentenced for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The defendants appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing examining work by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to investigate the possibility of expanding unlicensed...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee-along with Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Senate approved the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (CHGME). Harkin, Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Monique S. Murdock, 44, the former executive director of Nia Community Public Charter School, pled guilty today to a federal theft charge stemming from the embezzlement of $29,000 in funds meant for the school.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s ranking member, introduced H.Res. 404, a resolution that expresses deep sympathy and support to the people of the Philippines for the terrible loss of life and massive destruction as a result of Typhoon Haiyan, which landed on November 8, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated Native American Heritage Month and recognized USDA programs that strengthen Native Americans and their communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) responded to the Department of Health and Human Services’ release today of the health care law’s enrollment figures. The administration writes that “106,185 Americans have selected plans from the state and federal Marketplaces," ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen Livermont announced, "In observance of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, the Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center will be closed on Thursday, November 28th. The Visitor Center will re-open on Friday, November 29th." The Pipestone Indian Shrine Association gift shop, located at the Visitor Center, will also be closed Thanksgiving Day.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing “Examining Nuclear Negotiations: Iran After Rouhani’s First 100 Days.".
