News from March 2014
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work to protect affordable energy and promote an “all-of-the-above" energy strategy, the House of Representatives will vote this week on a series of commonsense energy bills, including several measures authored by Energy and Commerce Committee members to advance energy efficiency as well as ensure coal remains a viable source of American energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Tarentum woman has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on her conviction of bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) released the following statements in response to the President’s 2014 Trade Agenda.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Date: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014. Time: 6:00 P.M. Location: National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center (Central State Univ. campus). Opening keynote speaker for this inaugural birthday celebration will be Brian Shellum, a Senior Intelligence Analyst with the Joint...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 6 years in federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Feb. 26, 2014 - Press Releases.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Yesterday, the National Cancer Institute announced a scientific framework for advancing research on pancreatic cancer, as directed under the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012. Today, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Thaddeus Vidal Peralta, 43, of Winter Park, Fl., and Aaron Anthony Lumpkin 37, of Saint Cloud, Fl. were sentenced on March 3, 2014, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice," and possessing with intent to distribute a mixture...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed opportunities to improve the management of the Medicare program and what immediate steps should be taken to address waste and fraud in the program. Today’s hearing, “Keeping the Promise: ...
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the Obama Administration’s announcement of support for Ukraine...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK -- In honor of Women's History Month, Castle Clinton National Monument will welcome Kim Hanley of the American Historical Theater, as she portrays Annie Oakley on March 18 at 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Westfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to child pornography charges.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,280,320 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area in 2012 spent $51,466,744 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 685 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Napoleon Andrade, 32, of Central Falls, who is currently incarcerated while serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for drug trafficking, money laundering, theft of government property and federal firearm violations was enhanced today by 63 months for his role in a March 2010 home ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed opportunities to improve the management of the Medicare program and what immediate steps should be taken to address waste and fraud in the program. Today’s hearing, “Keeping the Promise: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Victor Sena, aka “V," 35, of Cranston, R.I., was ordered detained in federal custody today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond, having been charged with possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New England Field Division.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Imagine holding ancient artifacts that are usually behind glass in a museum or archived in repositories. Twelve volunteers from around the world gathered at the Anasazi Heritage Center to complete a Road Scholars service program where they inventoried and stored ceramic artifacts excavated from the Dolores Archaeological Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former attorney in the Haddonfield, N.J., office of a firm specializing in toxic tort litigation today admitted that he falsified defendants’ names in more than 100 asbestos suits filed in New York State courts in order to increase business and his standing in the firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
