News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: A wide variety of field-based, active learning courses taking place this summer in Denali National Park and Preserve are now available for reservation.These unique,.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Feb. 10, 2014. Members will examine drug shortages and the recent efforts to address them and the status of DOE’s clean coal programs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national park sites across the country in celebrating the Presidents' Day holiday by waiving admission fees Saturday through Monday, Feb. 15, 16, and 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, February 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRITT MARTIN, also known as “Big Baby," 30, formerly of Northford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Ripley Rand announced today that Craig Stanford Eury, Jr., Sarah Elizabeth Farrell, and International Labor Management Corporation (ILMC) were indicted by a federal grand jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, for allegedly (1) obtaining Visas by fraud, (2) encouraging...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: National Park Service staff and other experts have observed numerous Portuguese Man-of-War (also known as Blue Bottle), a type of stinging jellyfish, washed ashore at Asan Beach. Contact with this type of jellyfish can cause intense pain and serious injury. Seek immediate medical attention for serious...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: (Albany, New York) - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian has announced that the Northern District of New York collected $4,006,217.22 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $2,642,890.05 was collected in criminal actions and $1,363,327.17 was collected in civil actions.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: President Signs Major Jobs Bill; Legislation Makes Landmark Reforms in Agriculture Policy, Saves $23 Billion
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions today sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell requesting prompt release of the proposed rule for electronic drug labeling, which is currently under review.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that due to construction activities associated with the Susquehanna to Roseland Transmission Line project, the recreational use of some park facilities will be restricted between February 8 and February...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - On Feb. 24, 1864, before the prison stockade was ready to receive them, Union prisoners arrived at Andersonville. Only three days later the first prisoner would die -the first of nearly 13,000 to perish here. Join park staff and volunteers for special programs on the First Saturday of March to learn more about the opening of the Andersonville Prison. There is no admission fee and all programs are open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employee, pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia in connection with his unauthorized disclosure of national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Kenyen R. Brown, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama announced that Lacey Lynn Freeman, age 49, of Robertsdale, Alabama, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge William H. Steele to serve 120 months in federal prison in connection with her guilty plea to two...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Today, ranking member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) met with Bob Bauer, the co-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. This meeting comes on the heels of a report that the commission issued last month detailing how to address the many issues ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two former Edwardsville residents were arrested today by federal and state law enforcement officers on charges involving the sex trafficking and prostitution of a minor and weapons offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IGOR BELYANSKY and DAVID BINMAN were sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 20 and nine months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to pay approximately $20,000 in bribes to former New York State...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Pedro Rodriguez Garcia, age 35, formerly of Rosedale, Maryland, to 27 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit, and committing, an armed commercial robbery, and brandishing a gun during the robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Five members of the Senate Finance Committee today expressed strong disappointment at the IRS’s decision to award $62.5 million of employee bonuses, despite government-wide budget cuts, and asked for reconsideration of the decision and an explanation of current and future bonus plans.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: This spring break, War in the Pacific National Historical Park is proud to host another Junior Ranger Academy. Participants will have an opportunity to engage in fun activities that help them learn about the history of the park, the National Park Service, how to protect our island resources, and ways they can become future ambassadors of our local parks and national treasures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a six-count indictment charging PAUL GOTTA, 55, formerly of East Windsor, with firearms, explosives and obstruction offenses. The indictment was returned on Jan. 30, 2014, and unsealed today during GOTTA’s arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford. GOTTA entered a plea of not guilty.
