News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Port Acres, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
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 continued the process of gathering public input ahead of the #CommActUpdate. The white paper released today explores the laws governing the market for video content distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Kenai Fjords National Park and the surrounding areas experienced an unusually warm start to what is locally, though unofficially, considered early winter. Daily high temperatures recorded at the Seward airport reached into the high 40s and low 50s the first three weeks of the month and were above freezing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Tennessee woman has been sentenced in federal court to four years probation and eight months home detention on her conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adrian Lopez, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Fruitland, N.M., pled guilty this morning to assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Director John Billison of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) issued the following statement on the implementation of ICD-10, the most recent coding system to be used by health care providers for reimbursement and other functions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEROY McCOY, 49, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House and Senate leaders today welcomed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to convene a series of technical conferences on the potential threat of new federal environmental regulations to the reliability of the nation’s electric power system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against Southeastern Community and Family Services, Inc. (formerly Four-County Community Services, Inc.), a public housing agency that administers the Section 8 voucher program in Scotland County, North Carolina, along with two of its employees...
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the formation of a new government in Kosovo...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Notice of Flight Operations. Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for the remainder of December 2014 and January 2015: * Dec. 15, 16, and 18, between 6:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., to transport fencing material, camp supplies, and crew...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months (10 years) imprisonment followed by five years supervises release on his conviction of violating federal drug trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Settlement Creates Process To Ensure Accessibility At Hudson Yards And Other Developments, Makes Sixteen Rental Complexes More Accessible, And Provides Funds To Compensate Aggrieved Persons.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that DWAYNE E. HUPP, age 51, of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, after having pled guilty to four counts of bank robbery.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) issued the following statement on the implementation of ICD-10, the most recent coding system to be used by health care providers for reimbursement and other functions.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released emails between top officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), highlighting a plan to control implementation of the carbon rule ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the importance of Title 30 - a package of public lands bills - within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2015. Murkowski highlighted the title’s importance to federal oil and gas permitting, grazing, mining, and other economic and community development opportunities in western states.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee today applauded final Congressional passage of the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new policy paper highlighting the committee’s innovative solution to manage the disposal of coal ash through state and federal partnerships. Spearheaded by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is currently in the planning phase of developing a Commercial Services Strategy for guided commercial climbing in the park. This summer the park solicited comment and input from a variety of different stakeholders. This feedback was evaluated and is being used to continue...
