News from January 2014

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, D-WV, announced Wednesday that the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, on which he serves as lead Democrat, will hold a Congressional field hearing in Charleston, West Virginia, on February 10th to examine the Elk River Chemical spill. The hearing is slated to take place at 9:00 a.m., at the Kanawha County Courthouse.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - John Hamilton, 46, of Cincinnati was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 27 years in prison for recording a video of sexual activity between him...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Houston Lake, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography. Carlos J. Scott, 46, of Houston Lake, pleaded guilty before U.S. District...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement in response to natural resource issues included in President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Nederlander Organization Agrees To Provide Dozens Of Wheelchair Accessible And Aisle Transfer Seating Locations, And Eliminate Hundreds Of Barriers To Accessibility.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Tiny, self-powered sensors that can be embedded in bridge structures and networked wirelessly to continuously monitor the structure's health. Little fly-by-wire vehicles that can flit around bridges to measure and inspect their condition without the need to shut spans down to accommodate human inspectors.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The 12 parcels are located in two general areas in the southwest Las Vegas Valley: Gomer Road, Rainbow Boulevard, Jones Boulevard, Pyle Avenue, Decatur Boulevard, and Cactus Road; and Bermuda Road, Gillespie Street, and Starr Hills Avenue.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -A Utah man was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme involving federal procurement contracts, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow of the District of Utah.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Linberto Gallardo-(42); Uriel Julio (35); Miguel Vasquez-(37), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has implemented the Tip411 system to receive information related to the recent heroin and fentanyl overdoses in the Pittsburgh area.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Arthur Robinson, age 39, of Frederick, Maryland, has been charged by a federal grand jury with two counts of bank fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1344), one count of social security fraud (42 U.S.C. § 408)...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Carib Tails is a collaboration between the sanctuary and partners at Marine Mammal Sanctuary of the Dominican Republic, Agoa Marine Mammal Sanctuary/French Antilles, Bermuda Marine Mammal Sanctuary, the marine mammal sanctuaries of the Windward and Leeward Dutch Antilles, and the United Nations Caribbean Environment Programme’s Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Programme (UNEP/SPAW).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 28, 2014-Sterling Rivers a/k/a “Little Real"26, of Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 28 years in prison for conspiring to distribute large quantities of crack cocaine and cocaine, as part of his involvement in a criminal street gang called the Unknown Vice Lords, announced David Rivera, U. S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: David Baisden stripped local vendor of nearly $60,000 in county business for refusing to give him special discount.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that it filed an.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Let the Russians have their snow and join in some different events at the “Biscayne Wintergames!" As the Olympic Games highlight athletic prowess this month in Sochi, Biscayne National Park’sFamily Fun Festputs on some games of its own on Sunday, February 9 from 1-4 p.m. The free event takes place at...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Seven Ohio oncologists have been ordered to collectively pay nearly $2.6 million after pleading guilty to importing cancer medications that had not been approved by the Federal Drug Administration, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Kenneth Wayne Hugo, age 37, of El Paso County, Colorado, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn recently to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced. Hugo is scheduled...