News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Lynwood gang member who pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charges - admitting that he used force, fraud and coercion to cause teen-age girls to work as prostitutes across Southern California - was sentenced this morning to 360 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Milton James LaRose, age 26 of Winnebago, Nebraska, for his conviction of assaulting a federal officer. LaRose was sentenced to time served (seven months) and was further ordered to serve 6 months at the Dismas Charities residential reentry center in Sioux City, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - U.S. Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced the sentencing today of Robert Eugene Spiker, 45, of Marion, Indiana, by U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Walker. On Jan. 17, 2014, Spiker pleaded guilty to two counts of Solicitation to Commit Murder of a Federal Judge and an Assistant...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Director B. Todd Jones about the apparent lack of disciplinary actions taken against key players in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, 19 months after the Inspector General found these individuals culpable.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Classic Caesar salad, old-fashioned eggnog, some homemade ice cream-and many other popular foods-may contain raw eggs. Now, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-led research has produced a faster way to pasteurize raw, in-shell eggs without ruining their taste, texture, color or other important qualities.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed today’s unanimous decision by the Federal Communications Commission to make 100 megahertz of the 5 GHz spectrum band available for unlicensed use. The subcommittee held a hearing last year to discuss the administration’s progress on making more spectrum available in the 5 GHz band.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is partnering with the U.S. Agency for International Development to launch the Desal Prize - a worldwide effort to identify and promote innovation in brackish groundwater desalination.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed today’s unanimous decision by the Federal Communications Commission to make 100 megahertz of the 5 GHz spectrum band available for unlicensed use. The subcommittee held a hearing last year to discuss the administration’s progress on making more spectrum available in the 5 GHz band.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, March 31, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION of Stratford, Conn., which manufactures Black Hawk helicopters and...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Monday, April 7, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Improving Predictability and Transparency in DEA and FDA Regulation." Witnesses to be announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service plans to implement prescribed fire projects in Theodore Roosevelt National Park's North and South Units between April 3 and May 20,2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Steven Ray Williams, age 43, of Frederick, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for three armed robberies and for brandishing a gun during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, March 31, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and the United States Postal Inspection Service announced that LISA WILSON-FOLEY, a former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed today’s unanimous decision by the Federal Communications Commission to make 100 megahertz of the 5 GHz spectrum band available for unlicensed use. The subcommittee held a hearing last year to discuss the administration’s progress on making more spectrum available in the 5 GHz band.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: In a move 21 years in the making, Petrified Forest National Park announced today that 14,650 acres of park expansion lands will open to the visiting public on April 2, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for robbing a Topeka bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Ashley F. Gerbig was sentenced on Monday, March 31, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp to a term of forty-six month in prison. Mr. Gerbig pled guilty on Oct. 28, 2013, to selling a firearm and ammunition to a prohibited person. On March...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the recently released White House interagency guidance on methane from which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin to consider regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas producers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Monday, April 7, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Improving Predictability and Transparency in DEA and FDA Regulation." Witnesses to be announced.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Monday, April 7, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Improving Predictability and Transparency in DEA and FDA Regulation." Witnesses to be announced.
