News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Availability of Environment Assessment for Assessing Need for a Backcountry Cabin in Managing the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury in San Jose returned a sixteen count superseding indictment charging a Texas-based oil executive with undertaking a scheme to commit wire and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Plea Stems from an FBI Undercover Sting Operation.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: New York - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, authored the following Letter to the Editor in today’s International New York Times, responding to Roger Cohen’s February 7 op-ed “Setting aside revealed truth," supporting the Kosovo-Serbia agreement.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s Report on FCC Process Reform. Released on Friday, the report contains the recommendations of the FCC’s staff level working group, many of which mirror...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s Report on FCC Process Reform. Released on Friday, the report contains the recommendations of the FCC’s staff level working group, many of which mirror...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - Zachary Merritt and Keith Wood were sentenced to 11 years and six months and four years and two months imprisonment, respectively, for their roles in a heroin distribution ring, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Merritt and Wood had previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin in November of 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Arthur Elkins, Jr., Inspector General of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG). In the letter, Vitter expresses concerns regarding recent activities of the OIG, specifically in the aftermath of the John C. Beale investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Indiana, Pa., resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and forge checks, as well as charges of mail fraud and tax fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Miguel Sanchez-Mendoza (Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: On Feb. 12, 2014, Julie A. Keller, a/k/a Julie Smith and Julie Keller-Smith, 35, of Pinckneyville, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a charge of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced today that the Administration is creating a Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee, to advise USTR’s trade negotiators on issues that impact public health, consumer protection, and transparency.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded today’s report, released by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The report, which details the gross human rights abuses being carried out by the North Korea regime, is the Commission’s first report. Chairman Royce wrote to the State Department in 2013 urging it to support the Commission’s creation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2014
News Release: Location: Florida International University (FIU) - Stadium Club.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument will commemorate Women’s History Month with a weekend of programs focusing on women in the Civil War era on Saturday, March 15 and Sunday, March 16, 2014.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2014
News Release: Chairman Menendez will meet with Mexican President Peña Nieto and Colombian President Santos to discuss economic reforms and partnership opportunities
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2014
News Release: Auburn's Martha C. Wright harbored fugitive slaves and wrote in 1860,…We have been expending our sympathies, as well as congratulations, on seven newly arrived slaves that Harriet Tubman has just pioneered safely from the Southern Part of Maryland.--One woman carried a baby all the way and bro't [sic] two other chld'n that Harriet and the men helped along.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement regarding anti-government protests in Venezuela.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 ATLANTA— Today, ahead of his previously scheduled trip to Atlanta, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson visited the Georgia Emergency Operations Center with Governor Nathan Deal for briefings on the ongoing response efforts to the winter ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 ATLANTA— Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, joined by National Protection and Programs Directorate Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity Dr. Phyllis Schneck, visited the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Morehouse ...
