News from March 2014
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) has scheduled a markup next week to consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. The subcommittee will convene for opening statements only on Monday, March 24, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The subcommittee will reconvene in the same room on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at xx:xx a.m. to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, March 20, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Mark P. Troehler, 39, of Herrin, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Federal agents of the Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, obtained a search warrant for Safety Net of Oregon, a Representative Payee organization, located on SE Morrison Street. The warrant was executed on March 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment today against Mihran Melkonyan, 33, of Sacramento, and Androuslan Akhmerov, 39, of Los Angeles, for wire fraud and mail fraud in a scheme to defraud American Express account holders, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area may implement up to 3 of the following prescribed fires during the spring of 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that General Motors Company CEO Mary Barra will testify at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. The committee has also invited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman to testify on the same day.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: As it has for many years, the main channel of the East Fork Quinault River has continued to move across the Enchanted Valley floodplain this winter, further eroding the river bank and undermining the 1930s-era Enchanted Valley Chalet.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that General Motors Company CEO Mary Barra will testify at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. The committee has also invited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman to testify on the same day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joseph G. Petrarca, 50, of Cumberland, R.I., faces statutory penalties of up to 45 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to robbing two banks within twenty days while claiming to be armed with a gun, announced United States Attorney Peter...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: In order to further spur innovation in solar energy, the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is now accepting applications for postdoctoral researchers in solar energy to participate in the EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards. The EERE Postdoctoral Research Award...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: John Smith, 45, of Belcamp, Maryland, was charged today by Information with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Melroy Burgan, 25, to five months in prison for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00 a.m., the House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the Department of Labor." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) has scheduled a markup next week to consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. The subcommittee will convene for opening statements only on Monday, March 24, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The subcommittee will reconvene in the same room on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at xx:xx a.m. to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Flint Hills Resources of Port Arthur has agreed to implement innovative technologies to control harmful air pollution from industrial flares and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Glacier National Park and the Glacier Institute are accepting applications for their third climate change teacher workshop to be held June 23-26 at the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman has been charged with making fraudulent withdrawals from accounts in other people’s names at Citizens Bank branches throughout Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -Virginia Parks-Bert, 41, of Parkville, Md., was sentenced today to 42 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and required to pay $135,835.09 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, for participating in a scheme to defraud the United States by filing fraudulent tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today, Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher Conner sentenced a Mechanicsburg doctor, Timothy Clark, age 47 to 15 months imprisonment for health care fraud and pension fraud.
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt: As friends of Denmark and supporters of religious freedom, we are disappointed by the new Danish law that effectively bans kosher and halal slaughter practices. In our view, the law has a negative impact on religious freedom in Denmark, and must be addressed as...
