News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to placing a hoax explosive device on a public bus in Independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Gilbert Galan, JR., also known as "G" and "Skittles," 32, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two Holyoke residents were convicted yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for their role in distributing oxycodone pills shipped from Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two New Mexico women were indicted Tuesday on charges of bringing more than 8 pounds of methamphetamine to Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Wilmerding, Pa., resident has been sentenced in federal court to 64 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, March 5 at 10:00 a.m., the House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Culture of Union Favoritism: The Return of the NLRB’s Ambush Election Rule." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Tourism to Fort Pulaski National Monument creates $22,865,000 in Economic Benefit Report shows visitor spending supports 307 jobs in local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - March 4, 2014. Karen Hughes, Acting Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x223. Demonstration at Tuzigoot National Monument Highlights Cultural and Artistic Innovation from Lands to the South. CAMP VERDE, Ariz. - Two cultural demonstrators from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nicholas McDonald, 32, of Holden, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possession with intent to distribute heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Production Plus, Plainview, Texas, has paid $1,925 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA: The National Park Service has authorized funding for a project to rehabilitate the existing 5,650 square-foot Visitor Center completed at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in 1962. A national model when it first opened to the public, in more recent years the historic Mission 66-style building has been in need of major upgrades.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Following a three-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, a federal jury has convicted Victor Chapa, 32, of Irving, Texas, on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney R. Saldana.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: MEDORA, North Dakota - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 669,242 visitors to Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in 2012 spent $39.237 million in communities near these parks. That spending supported 528 jobs in the surrounding areas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to American Action Forum (AAF) analysis of the Tax Reform Act of 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: The park is continuing with its investigative phase of the clean-up process at Great Kills Park. This phase includes cutting back vegetation and moving fallen trees which are impeding the completion of a radiological survey in the closed area. The week of March 3 we will be using a large tub grinder...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a roundtable policy discussion on Wednesday to review how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can best utilize the data from the six unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test ranges.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Shanksville, PA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 802,503 visitors to the five Parks in Western Pennsylvania in 2012 spent over $44 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 677 jobs in the region. The five parks include: Allegheny Portage RailroadNHS, Flight 93 National Memorial, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship HillNHS, andJohnstownFlood National Memorial.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement in response to President Obama’s FY2015 Budget.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that in 2012 12,073,658 visitors to national parks around New York Harbor spent $394,399,300 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 4,395 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Following a three-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, a federal jury has convicted Victor Chapa, 32, of Irving, Texas, on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney R. Saldana.
