News from July 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Americans - from the water cooler to professional societies - are often debating the future of American manufacturing. Academic journals are filled with articles where naysayers say that American manufacturers can’t compete with cheap labor in Asia, or that robots and computers do the jobs once held by middle class workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, July 17, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned indictments against four Hartford residents allegedly...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: July 17, 2014 9:00 a.m., Marblemount, WA - The Lone Mountain Fire, about five miles northwest of Stehekin, Washington in high rugged mountains of the Boulder Creek drainage, has grown to 200 acres. That includes a spot fire of about 40 acres that started across Butte Creek from the main fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp yesterday sentenced five individuals for their roles in stealing from an employee benefit plan of a local union. James McCall (32, Orange City) was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $93,405.89 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today said U.S. trade policy must be upgraded to support American manufacturing and make U.S. employers more competitive in the 21st century global economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Andrew Stephen Jackson, age 44, of Florence, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, to possession of child pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2). United States...
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement about reports that a passenger plane crashed in the area near the Ukraine-Russia border...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: More than 2,000 individuals victimized as a result of the defendants' scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: LAKE MEAD NRA WELCOMES NEW DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Thursday, July 24, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed today charging a Monroe County resident with distributing crack cocaine during a seven-month time period.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The entire length of the Boulder Creek Trail between the Stehekin Valley and War Creek Pass in the North Cascades National Park is now closed for safety because of the Lone Mountain Fire. Earlier, officials had closed a section of trail from Hooter Camp to War Creek Pass. Now the trail is closed from valley to ridgeline.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: On July 26, 2014, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is hosting the Seventh Annual Chattahoochee River Summer Splash, a 6-mile float down the river from Morgan Falls Dam to Powers Island. This event is hosted in partnership with Sandy Springs Hospitality and Tourism. The Summer Splash is...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that WILLIAM LEO RUMINER, age 48, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 100 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release and a $56,750.00 money judgment for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, in violation of Title 21 United States Code, Section 846.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittees on Communications and Technology and Health today held a joint hearing to discuss how the intersection of technology and health care in the 21st century can accelerate the #Path2Cures. Members heard from experts in both the health and technology fields regarding opportunities...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced up to $7 million to deploy clean energy and energy efficiency projects in tribal communities, reducing reliance on fossil fuel, and promoting economic development. The Tribal Energy Program, in cooperation with the Department's Office of Indian Energy, will help Native American tribes, tribal energy resource development organizations, and tribal consortia to install community- or facility-scale clean energy and energy efficiency projects.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which would update the price of the duck stamp for the first time since 1991.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Luis Pomales guilty of filing fraudulent claims with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Pomales faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 6, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - On Tuesday July 22 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. there will be a free program for elementary aged students focusing on the intertidal zone of Sitka National Historical Park. Participants will explore the life within the intertidal zone. Participants are asked to be accompanied with a parent/guardian for the duration of the program.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Thursday, July 24, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses to be announced.
