News from May 2014
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today heard testimony from some of the nation’s largest health insurance providers and the trade groups that represent them regarding the status of the president’s health care law, enrollment, and implementation.
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: “The United States is leading an unprecedented resurgence in North American energy production. The entire continent stands to achieve substantial economic, environmental and security benefits. But we will not realize these opportunities unless we establish the infrastructure needed to create an integrated...
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department is pleased to announce that four employees have been selected as finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal from the Partnership for Public Service. Alice Lippert, Gilbert Bindewald, and Patrick Willging were selected for helping government authorities...
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today heard testimony from some of the nation’s largest health insurance providers and the trade groups that represent them regarding the status of the president’s health care law, enrollment, and implementation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Isiah Robinson, age 27, of Baltimore, to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The last defendants in a series of large cases targeting the Nuestra Familia prison gang were sentenced in U.S. District Court this week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In total, 37 defendants were sentenced to federal prison, 18 of them to 10 years or more in prison. One defendant was sentenced to probation. They were sentenced for drug trafficking offenses committed to advance the Nuestra Familia gang.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the May 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls on April 28, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, KEITH CLIFFORD CUNNINGHAM, 70, of Kent, Washington, was sentenced to 228 months imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Harmeet Singh (39, Windermere); Cean Al Najjar (33, Palm Harbor); and Michael Petrucci (49, Tampa) with conspiring to distribute, and distributing, controlled substance analogue AM2201. If convicted on all counts, each faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, this evening delivered the following remarks in support of H.Res. 418, Urging the Government of Burma to end the persecution of the Rohingya people and respect internationally recognized human rights for all ethnic and religious minority groups within Burma...
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the House voted to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress, despite the fact that she invoked her rights under the Fifth Amendment not to testify...
By USDA Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Stabenow Says Farm Bill Affects All Americans, Implementation Key to Creating Jobs, Growing the Economy
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that IRENE ALINA MICHELL and TYSHA LEANN MICHELL were sentenced for trafficking methamphetamine from Washington into Montana. IRENE ALINA MICHELL, age 33, of Great Falls, Montana, was sentenced to a term of 132 months imprisonment, five years supervised release...
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the Senate passage of H.R.4192, “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia". The bill passed the Senate through unanimous consent. The bill was...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - Rangers at Crater Lake National Park are searching for a missing snowshoe hiker last seen on Monday, April 28. The park received a report of a missing visitor on Wednesday morning April 30. The report indicated that the visitor had arrived at the park two days earlier, rented snowshoes from the park concessioner, and set off to hike and take photos.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Gary Todd Smith (45), a/k/a Todd, and Gary Truman Smith (69), a/k/a Gary, both of Fayetteville, North Carolina, with wire fraud affecting a financial institution. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Certain types of extreme weather events with links to climate change have become more frequent and/or intense, including prolonged periods of heat, heavy downpours, and in some regions, floods and droughts. In addition, warming is causing sea level to rise and glaciers and Arctic sea ice to melt, and oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide. These and other aspects of climate change are disrupting people's lives and damaging some sectors of our economy.
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today honored 14 organizations, naming them as 2014 Green Lease Leaders for their commitment to reducing energy waste and increasing efficiency in commercial buildings. These companies have demonstrated their commitment to energy efficiency, incorporating lease clauses that reinforce energy-efficiency choices, facilitating access to the energy bill data necessary for building benchmarking and encouraging cooperation on environmental initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on April 29, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of two counts of Simple Assault of a Minor was sentenced on May 2, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
