News from March 2014
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Cherie Butler, a 21-year National Park Service veteran, has been selected as the next Deputy Superintendent for Park Operations at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, according to Superintendent John Piltzecker. Butler replaces Frank Mills who retired in 2012. She will begin her new assignment in early May.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the Senate’s approval of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS). The bill, which would redirect wasteful spending on political conventions...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Isaac Boger, 22, of Bossier City, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI -Caleb Zachary Storey, 30, Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to producing sexually explicit photographs of a child he was babysitting...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $10 million to strengthen the U.S. marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy industry, including wave and tidal energy sources. Through the two funding opportunities announced today the Department is supporting design, manufacturing, demonstration, and testing of sustainable, environmentally responsible marine and hydrokinetic energy devices and components.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Leroy J. Pelicci and his wife, Ann Pelicci, for an alleged conspiracy to evade federal currency transaction reporting requirements by structuring a series of specific cash transactions at several Northeast Pennsylvania banks between 2011 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Daniel Mumbower, 35, a former banker, of Glassboro, NJ, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for two counts of bank fraud and one count of receiving bribes by a bank employee for his role in a scheme that defrauded lenders of nearly $3 million. U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, also...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3675, the FCC Process Reform Act, by voice vote. Authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), this bipartisan legislation aims to increase transparency, predictability, and accountability to the commission.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: The Obama Administration’s Cuts to the Medicare Advantage Program Threaten the Care of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service has released a range of preliminary draft alternatives for the Olympic National Park Wilderness Stewardship Plan.The preliminary draft alternatives were designed to reflect key topics raised during the initial public scoping process last spring.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Kennesaw, GA- The National Park Service today announced the details of the upcoming commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park will offer three days of commemorative programs, battlefield tours, and living history demonstrations at sites throughout the park from June 26-29, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Friday-Saturday, March 28-29, 2014 at the Giacomini Wetlands in Point Reyes Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan today returned an indictment charging Ronnie Edward Duke, age 46, of Fenton, Michigan, with assaulting, resisting, or impeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-A federal inmate pleaded guilty today for the murder of United States Correctional Officer Jose Rivera, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner for the Eastern District of California.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Bob Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The letter reminds Perciasepe of EPA's July 2013 commitment to EPW Republicans that the Agency would ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., announced the recent unsealing of a superseding indictment charging members of the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD," with violating federal drug and firearm laws. A federal grand jury returned the superseding indictment on Feb. 27, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: A Highland man was sentenced today to 17 ½ years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to receipt and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the General Motors Company (GM) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting information about their response to consumer complaints related to problems with stalling, airbag deployment, ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H. Res. 499, which condemns the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty by Russian forces and calls for Russian sanctions. The resolution, introduced by Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), unanimously passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A pair of Brooklyn brothers have admitted on consecutive days to crossing state lines as part of a plan to violently coerce an unwilling husband to grant his wife a religious divorce, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
