News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park staff are looking for organized groups and families to assist with a variety of projects at the park this summer. The work ranges from assisting park firefighters on a fuels reduction project to protect the park and surrounding neighbors, working on native plant restoration or assisting the park's trail crew on trail rehabilitation and some flood recovery efforts.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: “Today, our Committee will examine treatment options and trends for mental health conditions. We held a successful hearing on mental health issues last year, and I’m pleased to have the opportunity to continue the dialogue on this important topic with my colleagues and our panel of expert witnesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to a new non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation cost estimate, A Republican bill to change the definition of the work week under the Affordable Care Act from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week would increase the deficit by $74 billion over 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Thirteen people were arrested and law enforcement seized 50 pounds of crystal meth, $160,000 in cash and seven guns in the culmination of a lengthy investigation of a Pierce County based drug trafficking ring. The Drug Enforcement Administration led the wire-tap investigation which identified...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - On a bipartisan vote of 410-0, the House of Representatives today adopted H.R. 1211, the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014. H.R. 1211 was introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and reported out of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee last year. H.R. 1211 will enhance the American people’s access to federal government information by improving the responsiveness of federal agencies to FOIA requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that MITCHELL TODD ROSS was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2014, to a term of 16 months in federal prison with three years of supervised release to follow, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing and Impeding a Federal Officer, and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced Travis Rocky Dixon (36, Palatka) yesterday to 8 years and 9 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing videos of child pornography using the Internet. In addition, he was ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervision, following his incarceration, and to register as a sex offender. A federal jury found Dixon guilty on Nov. 15, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: BOGOTA, Colombia - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnered with the National Police of Colombia (CNP) Feb. 25 to arrest 24 Colombian nationals who were members of the transnational criminal organization known as the "Urabenos."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Michael J. Barndt, a/k/a “mikecoach73," age 40, of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor, in violation of federal law. Barndt also was sentenced to five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works, or attends school.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a Florida-based physician, Dr. Steven Chun, has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations that he and his clinic billed Medicare for physician office visits that he did not perform.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free ranger-guided tour focusing on the Civil War story associated with Moccasin Bend's Brown's Ferry Federal Road on Saturday, March 8, 2014. The mile and a half, two-hour program will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Brown's Ferry Federal Road trailhead on Moccasin Bend Road. To find the trailhead, follow the "Special Event" signs beginning on Manufactures Road.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Farm Fresh Packers LLC, operating in Deerfield Beach, Fla., has posted a $110,000 cash surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Tory Lenard James (32, Sarasota) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. James faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 16, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the Energy and Commerce Committee will pursue legislative solutions to take the Federal Communications Commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study off the books. The study, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Beaver Falls, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Sycamore, Ill. resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford for allegedly transporting and possessing child pornography. MICHAEL PODOLSKY, 26, now of Elkader, Iowa, was charged with two counts of transporting child pornography via the internet, and one count of possessing child pornography that had crossed state lines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that MARK LAWRENCE WILSON was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2014, to a term of 6 months in federal prison with three years of supervised release to follow, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that after less than an hour of deliberation, a federal jury has found 31-year-old Robert Lewis Burshia guilty of stabbing three women at a residence in Poplar, Montana on March 6, 2013. Following a day and half long trial before U.S. District Court...
