News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on Sept. 23, 2013, in Missoula, after a federal district court trial before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, PAUL JOSEPH RICHTER, a 50-year-old resident of Florence, was found guilty of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm. Sentencing is set for January 8, 2014. He is currently detained.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Ultra High Frequency Band (UHF) discount...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. October 1: Live Webinar on Building the Case for Energy Efficiency with Financial Decision-makers. Webinar Sponsor: EERE’s Better Buildings Challenge. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Speaking the CFO Language: Building the Case for Energy Efficiency with...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding a new report by the Joint Economic Committee detailing the key role that agricultural exports are playing in the U.S. economy. The report, The Economic ...

By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today visited Jackson, Miss., and announced new investments to support producers and rural communities throughout Mississippi. The Secretary announced funding for renewable energy projects, projects to improve public health in the Mississippi Delta region and awards to support small, socially-disadvantaged agriculture producers. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio, 34-year-old Michael Albert Amirante was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for robbing several banks in Texas and Michigan announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, San Antonio Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: SEP 26 (TAMPA, Fla.) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that Camilo Torres-Martinez, aka (41, Colombia), pleaded guilty to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment that charges Brian A. Miller, 35, of Varna, Ill., with 25 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. The indictment, returned late yesterday, also seeks the criminal forfeiture of Miller’s cell phone and data storage device, alleging that said items were used in the commission of the alleged offenses and that the equipment was manufactured and transported in interstate and foreign commerce.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Kahuku Unit by offering free programs to introduce visitors and residents to the park's southernmost section, October through December 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Harold Michael Nicol, age 53, of Cumberland, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for possessing child pornography. Judge Garbis ordered that upon his release from prison, Nicol must register...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment Wednesday charging Anderson Ortiz, age 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Ultra High Frequency Band (UHF) discount...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Claimed to be a Fortune Teller and Spiritual Adviser.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), sent a letter to Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. State Department, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Joseph, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court to her role in a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in St. Joseph, which is operated by a contractor for the Missouri Department of Revenue.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Energy Department today announced the Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines project to improve the quality and consistency of commercial building workforce training and certification programs for five key energy-related jobs: Energy Auditor, Commissioning Professional, Building/Stationary Engineer, Facility Manager, and Energy Manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS MORALES, also known as “Cano," 41, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Sept. 26, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, MICHAEL THOMAS BAD OLD MAN, a 21-year-old resident of Browning and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, pled guilty to burglary. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 16, 2014. He is currently detained.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 26, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding Senate passage of H.R. 527, the Helium Stewardship Act.

By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Ultra High Frequency Band (UHF) discount...