News from December 2014
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the Committee’s six subcommittee chairmen for the 114th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PML researchers are exploring whether ultrasound can be used as a faster, more efficient way to take three-dimensional images of radiation dose profiles in water.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Dec. 16, 2014 14-089. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Geyser Eruption Predictions Now Available...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. -- Edward Dorsey Sr., 42, of St. Anne, Ill., was sentenced yesterday to a term of 276 months (23 years) in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Dorsey was also ordered to remain on supervised release...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of the 2014 update to its core guide to assessing the security and privacy safeguards for federal information systems and organizations. The revised guide was issued in draft for public comment last August.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement on the one year anniversary of South Sudan’s civil war...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Alexander Vugler (45, North Port) to 14 years in federal prison for transportation of child pornography. He also was ordered to serve a life term of supervision following his release from prison. In addition, the Court forfeited...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WESLEY SKORSKI, 44, of Marlborough, will pay a $1,000 fine for violating the Federal Food, Drug and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering, and Jerome R. McDuffie, Acting Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation Division, New Orleans Field Office, announce that.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announcedthat aShreveport man pleaded guilty Monday to possessing firearms and ammunition after being convicted of multiple felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Cresencio Ochoa-Tovali, 46, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to assaulting a federal correctional officer, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on President Obama’s decision to withdraw Alaska’s North Aleutian Basin from potential oil and natural gas activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing PCP with the intent to distribute and for illegally possessing firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to recognize Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employee, Mr. Don Marfisi, for his exemplary dedication to public service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: In a stipulated judgment entered by the district court, the Billion Auto Group, which has facilities in Sioux City, Iowa City, and Clive, and an advertising company, Nichols Media, have agreed to a $360,000 judgment to resolve claims that they violated a Federal Trade Commission consent order prohibiting deceptive advertising when marketing the cost of buying or leasing a car.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 16, 2014, Geraldine Dumarce, 33, St. Michael, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R Erickson to serve six months in prison for child abuse or neglect.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A pediatrician with a practice in Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Vincent Craven, Jr., 48, of Malvern, Pennsylvania was charged today by Information with one count of bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the Information, Craven submitted false mortgage applications to Washington Mutual Bank and Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo) and defrauded Washington Mutual of approximately $490,391 and Wells Fargo of approximately $103,651.
