News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Singapore-based ODFJELL ASIA II PTE LTD. and one of its senior crew members pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Hartford, Conn., for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2015 budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), and Ronald J. Verrochio, Postal Inspector in Charge, United...
By Commerce 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 DOE 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: Janelle Zoch, age 47, and Darwin Zoch, age 45, both of Storm Lake, Iowa, and Brandon Hinesly, age 35, of Truesdale, Iowa, have pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Janelle Zoch and Brandon Hinesly pled guilty on Feb. 28, 2014. Darwin Zoch pled guilty on March 3, 2014. Mark Hill, age 48, of Storm Lake, Iowa, also pled guilty on Aug. 13, 2013 to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice,.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 480,294 visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore in 2012 spent $20 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 297 jobs in the local area.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: (click for more information). The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved legislation by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) that helps provide emergency relief to the ongoing propane and home heating fuels crisis in the United States. On February...
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: Five Detroit-area residents were indicted today on charges of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 381,058 visitors to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in 2012 spent $22,584,700 in communities near the park. That spending supported 296 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: TKANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Augusta, Kan., man pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Gerald Dwayne Welch (35, St. Petersburg) to 14 years in federal prison for distribution of crack cocaine. Welch pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lucas Michael Ray Toledo, 25, a resident and enrolled member of Jemez Pueblo, was sentenced this morning to 32 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his second degree murder conviction. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By Commerce 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: WILMINGTON, Del. - Harry K. Roche, age 43, of Millsboro, Delaware, pled guilty today to Production and Transportation of Child Pornography, in violation of federal law. Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced the guilty plea following a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after President Obama released his Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 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 Railroad NHS, Flight 93 National Memorial, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship Hill NHS, and Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: LAKE MEAD NRA VISITORS SPENT $252 MILLION IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN 2012.
