News from March 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Scientists and engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invent tools, technologies and techniques applicable to a spectrum of disciplines, including the biosciences, building and fire research, materials science and manufacturing. This past year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Mobile man to nearly four years in prison in connection with a con scheme totaling more than $260,000 that he ran on at least three women he met in an upscale Birmingham steakhouse, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: “Abu Ghayth" Appeared With Usama Bin Laden And Ayman Al-Zawahiri After Sept. 11, 2001, Threatening Additional Attacks Against The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marijuana cultivators from Inyo, Fresno, Kern and Stanislaus Counties entered guilty pleas today in three cases and sentenced in two for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation operations, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 1459, the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that TISHOMINGO MARC WALDON, age 43, of Seminole, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to Do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code Sections 1151, 1153 and 113(a)(3).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) after-action report on the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 1, 2013 entitled Enhancing TSA Officer Safety and Security: Agency Actions and Path Forward...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the World Trade Organization ruling on China’s export policies for rare-earth elements.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 39-year-old Tyler, Texas former sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Administrator Fugate, thank you for joining us this morning to discuss FEMA’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015. Your tenure has been a busy one, particularly in 2011, which brought a record high 99 Major Disaster Declarations, along with 29 Emergency Declarations and 114 Fire Management Assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A man who flew into the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport under an assumed name on March 16 now faces a federal grand jury indictment for violating airport security and presenting false identification documents, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Prosthetics supplier Ossur Americas, Inc. today paid the United States $500,000 to resolve allegations that the Orange County company supplied the Army with hundreds of foreign-made prosthetic, bracing and support products -while falsely certifying that all of its products were manufactured in the United States as required by federal law and its contracts with the military.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: A Sioux City gang member, who possessed a firearm after having been convicted of three previous felonies, was sentenced March 26, 2014, to 70 month’s imprisonment in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: A new measurement science research and development (R&D) roadmap,* prepared for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) over the past two years by a private-sector group of hazard mitigation experts, provides a broad strategic approach and R&D objectives to reduce impacts from windstorms and coastal inundations (including storm surge during hurricanes and tsunamis).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska- The summer is fast approaching and with that the following Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve Visitor Centers will be opening.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TODAY to examine the geopolitical potential of U.S. energy resources. The hearing, entitled “The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom, " will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., entered a memo from the House Counsel’s office into the record for today’s hearing. The memo concludes that the Committee has met or exceeded all the relevant legal requirements to proceed to a vote on whether former IRS official Lois Lerner should be held in contempt after her refusal to testify on March 5th.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: RICHARD ZANCO, age 44, of Slidell, Louisiana, plead guilty as charged today before United States District Judge Susie Morgan to money laundering, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have rejuvenated a technique for finding planets near distant stars.* New measurements of light from special lamps could help astronomers find planets hidden in data from more than a decade's worth of extrasolar planet searches, as well as improve telescopes' current capabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT LEE, also known as “B.O.," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert...
