News from July 2014
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wrote President Obama today, calling for broad sanctions against Russia’s defense sector, as well as their energy and financial industries.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the nation’s satellite television law to ensure that millions of satellite subscribers continue to receive broadcast programming. H.R. 4572, the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014, which was approved by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Today, seven people were charged in connection with explosions tied to the illegal and dangerous practice of extracting hash oil from marijuana. The explosions in Bellevue, Kirkland, Seattle and Puyallup resulted in multiple injuries to innocent bystanders, some of whom were unaware of the illegal activity nearby. One of those injured died due to complications after hospitalization. The defendants will appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle and Tacoma later today.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: Yesterday’s passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2166 (2014) - which supports existing efforts to establish an independent international investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17th and demands that associated investigators...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “FERC Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan and other Grid Reliability Challenges." The subcommittee has invited all five Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to testify.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today continued to raise red flags about the impact on agriculture and rural economies of the new Clean Water Act regulations proposed this spring by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal agents this morning arrested three defendants who worked at Orange County businesses that allegedly offered bogus loan modification programs to financially distressed homeowners. As a result of the fraudulent scheme allegedly run out of U.S. Homeowners Relief and several related...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Nanotechnology: Understanding How Small Solutions Drive Big Innovation."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Nanotechnology: Understanding How Small Solutions Drive Big Innovation."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a new design for an atomic clock that is based on a chip-scale frequency comb, or a microcomb.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 47-year-old Forty Fort businessman was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for participating in a conspiracy to launder drug proceeds related to the distribution of synthetic marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christopher A. Engel, 34, formerly of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, and currently residing in Washington, Utah, was sentenced in connection with his operation of Pinnacle Forex Group ("PFG"), LLC, a currency trading firm that he operated from his home in Glen Rock.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.- July 22, 2014- Four Kentucky residents pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to defraud Lowe’s Companies, Inc., announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Joe Fuqua, 38, Michael Gregory, 39, and Charles Ragar, 49, all of Franklin, KY, and Robert...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “FERC Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan and other Grid Reliability Challenges." The subcommittee has invited all five Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Ulrich Johnson (27, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered Johnson to forfeit the firearm and ammunition. Johnson pleaded guilty on April 24, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decision in Halbig v. Burwell.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the nation’s satellite television law to ensure that millions of satellite subscribers continue to receive broadcast programming. H.R. 4572, the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014, which was approved by...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Glacier National Park Rangers euthanized a black bear from the Two Medicine area on Friday, July 18, after several reports in which the bear exhibited apparent food-conditioned behavior, including an incident in which the bear charged a picnicking family.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Danny Robertson, 63, Hershey, Pennsylvania pled guilty in United States District Court in Harrisburg to wire fraud relating to providing false information to racing officials and the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies cannot be granted to individuals in the federal Exchange.
