News from March 2014
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga has announced the availability of a prospectus for a business opportunity in the park, to provide lodging, food services, retail, transportation, mule rides, and other services on the South Rim. This prospectus, similar to one announced on August 6, 2013, outlines the business opportunity, describes the existing business, and provides details on how to submit a responsive proposal.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Debbie Darden announced today the next step toward completing the Bayside Picnic and South Ocean Beach Parking Areas Removal and Relocation environmental assessment: a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Preferred Alternative has been signed by NPS Regional Director Mike Caldwell and is now posted online.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that BOBBY GENE SMITH, age 43, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging him with Theft Of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today spoke in support of H.R. 4015, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act, legislation that was approved by a vote of 238 to 181. H.R. 4015 was authored by Vice Chairman of the Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and is the product of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 5, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, PATRICIA ANN HALCOMB-SEGNA, 44, of Billings, Montana, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) criticized the Department of Education’s new draft of the gainful employment regulation, noting the regulation will disproportionately harm low-income students and threaten the strength of the nation’s higher education system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Donald Edwin Gallagher, Jr. (51, St. Petersburg) guilty of two counts of production of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Shooting Star Native Seed Inc., Spring Grove, Minn., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Seventh Circuit rules that certain violations of Indiana’s Domestic Battery Statute qualify as a.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A husband and wife from Cape Coral, Fla., pleaded guilty today to mail fraud involving the theft of more than $210,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 14, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Daniel W. Amerson, 26, of Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison, to be followed by a three year term of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,883.30 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Texas man entangled in a sex trafficking sting operation has pled guilty to Commercial Sex Trafficking.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: “We have convened this hearing to examine FDA’s implementation of key public health initiatives being undertaken by the agency, including several significant reforms passed out of this Committee over the last few years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls on March 5, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Malloy, ANGEL CRISTOBAL-SARMIENTOS was sentenced to a term of.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the committee approved The Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014 by a bipartisan vote of 14 to 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Curtis Caylor, 60, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to five years in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for his child pornography conviction. Caylor will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement today: "U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer Jason Crisp gave his life yesterday in service to his country. On behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture, I offer my deepest condolences to his ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: More than 175,000 homes purchased; 120,000 broadband connections made; 1,000 community facilities funded WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued a report highlighting the impact of more than $33 billion in USDA investments to support rural businesses, infrastructure and housing in 2013.
