News from November 2013
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Superintendent H. Lane Baker has announced the seasonal operating hours of the three National Park Service sites in Cochise County - Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site. New this year, all three park visitor centers will be open on Thanksgiving...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Trial Testimony Centers On Recorded Jail Calls About Hidden Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: West Virginians asked to participate to help kids in transition to foster care.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former Watertown Police Officer was sentenced today for passing false prescriptions, using a stolen identity.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Breadfruit, used as a folk remedy in Pacific regions to control insects, is an effective mosquito repellent, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy expressing concerns regarding EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards for new power plants that would require the installation of carbon capture...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Rex Anyanwu has been found guilty of deceiving Immigration officials by helping aliens enter into fraudulent marriages to U.S. citizens and guilty of obtaining his own citizenship in violation of the law and of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and alien harboring.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to an announcement this morning from the Postal Service reporting a net loss of $5 billion for FY 2013...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Nov. 18, 2013. The committee will convene five hearings, including an examination into the security of HealthCare.gov and continued oversight of the FirstNet program. The committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Former Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy MARK HEBERT, 48, pled guilty today to one civil rights violation, five bank fraud violations and one aggravated identity theft violation, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and two House Chairmen are asking the Administration to halt the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rulemaking that would greatly expand federal Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction. EPA has ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, today announced that LUIS CEDILLO, 31, recently of Sylmar, Calif., has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Defendant Exported Military-Style, Semi-Automatic Assault Weapons, Purchased In North Carolina, From Queens To Shanghai.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Chief Executive Officer Also Sentenced In Connection With Separate $11 Million Dollar Ponzi Scheme With Pension Plan Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - A detective who worked in the Dallas Police Department’s (DPD) Vice Unit, Jose Luis Bedoy, 39, of Dallas, was arrested this morning, by special agents with the FBI, on federal felony charges of obstruction of official proceedings and obstruction of the due administration of justice, as outlined...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Miami Field Office, John F. Khin, Special Agent in Charge, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), and Frank Robey, Director, Major...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to lower congressionally mandated biofuels targets for 2014. The proposal would set the volumes at under 10 percent of projected gasoline consumption, and pull the rug out from underneath a growing American-made energy sector poised to create thousands of jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Nov. 18, 2013. The committee will convene five hearings, including an examination into the security of HealthCare.gov and continued oversight of the FirstNet program. The committee...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Superintendent H. Lane Baker has announced the seasonal operating hours of the three National Park Service sites in Cochise County - Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site. New this year, all three park visitor centers will be open on Thanksgiving...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today continued its Our Nation of Builders series with a hearing focused on efforts to train a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, which is essential for America’s manufacturing...
