News published on Federal Newswire in March 2014

News from March 2014


News Release: Cedar Creek & Belle Grove. Box 700. 7712 Main Street. Middletown, VA 22645. (540) 868-9176 phone. (540) 869-4527 fax. Cedar Creek & Belle Grove. National Historical Park. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. NationalPark ServiceNews Release. Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NationalHistorical...


News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, Colombia's Minister of Energy and Mines Amylkar Acosta, Mayor of Santiago de Calí Rodrigo Guerrero, and Director of Planning of Colombia Tatyana Orozco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the development...


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Nevada, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with the sexual exploitation of a child after he assumed a false online identity as a woman and persuaded a teenage...


News Release: I’d like to thank Chairman Rogers, Judge Carter, and Ranking Member Price for their leadership. This subcommittee values our role in protecting our homeland as well as the bipartisan working relationship we foster to meet this goal.


Thompson Announces Committee Staff Changes

News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the following staff changes for the Committee's Democratic staff...


Erie County Man Charged With Possession Of Child Pornography

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Corry, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


NIST's April 7 Workshop Launches Effort to Improve Disaster Resilience of Communities

News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., will host the first of six workshops devoted to developing a comprehensive, community-based disaster resilience framework, a national initiative carried out under the President's Climate Action Plan.* The workshop will be held at the NIST laboratories in Gaithersburg, Md., on Monday, April 7, 2014.


News Release: CHICAGO - Pharmaceutical manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. and a subsidiary, IVAX LLC, will pay the United States and the state of Illinois more than $27.6 million to resolve false billing allegations, under the terms of a settlement agreement announced today. The agreement settles claims that...


Lincoln County Man Indicted On Tax Charges

News Release: St. Louis, MO - PETER GIAMBALVO was indicted on tax charges for allegedly filing false tax returns from 2003-2010.


News Release: Public Scoping Meetings Regarding Sand Point Revetment Scheduled for March 19 and 20.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg woman has pleaded guilty today to a federal heroin charge, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. During her plea hearing before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston, Daquarri Coats, 21, admitted that on Sept. 30, 2013, she sold $1,950.00 worth of heroin to an informant working with the Parkersburg Police Department. The drug deal took place near the intersection of 30th Street and Dudley Avenue in Parkersburg.


News Release: Wifredo A Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Carlos Rodriguez, 40, of Miami Lakes, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.


Clarks Summit Man Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Kill The President

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 42-year-old Clarks Summit man pleaded guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to posting a threat to kill the President of the United States on the White House website.


Over 6 Months, NIST Zero-Energy House Gives Back to the Grid

News Release: Over the first six months in their special, new, four-bedroom home in suburban Maryland, the Nisters, a prototypical family of four, earned about $40 by exporting 328 kilowatt hours of electricity into the local grid, while meeting all of their varied energy needs.


Massachusetts Man Sentenced For Drug Trafficking

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Maine. Tuesday, March 11, 2014.


News Release: The Obama Administration’s Cuts to the Medicare Advantage Program Threaten the Care of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Barbara Eberle, 66, and Robert Eberle, 75, both of Oxford, Ga. but formerly of Chico, Calif. were sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $13.2 million in restitution, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The Eberles pleaded guilty to securities fraud on July 20, 2012.


News Release: A large, fast-moving northwest swell will enter the region early Wednesday morning March 12 and build into the evening hours. This large, fast-moving swell will result in an increased threat for rip currents and sneaker waves along most of the beaches at Point Reyes National Seashore.


News Release: Henry County DCS employee arrested for perjury and lying to federal agents.


***MEDIA ADVISORY*** TOMORROW: Hearings to Discuss Charter Schools and Mismanagement of Student Loan Rehabilitation

News Release: On Wednesday, March 12, the committee will convene two education hearings in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.