News from November 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Tamara Ashford, Paige Marvel and Cary Pugh to be judges on the U.S. Tax Court, and Ramin Toloui to be deputy under secretary for international finance at the Treasury Department. All nominees passed by voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - During the Thanksgiving weekend, visitation at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area increases with the most congested time anticipated between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Master Dalas Brisco, aka Paula D. Ike, age 57, from Hinesville, Georgia, was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2014, by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, Chief United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia to serve four years in prison following his earlier plea of guilty to aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Today, during helicopter search efforts, Peter Jeffris' body was located 200 feet below the Ledges on the Keyhole Route. A Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue Team was flown to a landing spot in the Glacier Gorge drainage. The four team members then climbed approximately 1,800 vertical feet...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rufus Juan Lester, 23, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his assault conviction. Lester was sentenced to 66 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jessica.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States District Judge Paul Byron today sentenced Vincent Hudson, a/k/a “Goldie," (44, Stockton, CA), Patricia Poulson, a/k/a “Moët Diamonds," (22, Stockton, CA), and Jessica McCrary, a/k/a “Amber Snow" (20, Stockton, CA) for sex trafficking-related offenses. Hudson was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. McCrary and Poulson were each sentenced to three years’ probation, respectively.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued the following statement as negotiators attempt to reach a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program by November 24th. This week’s talks in Vienna will attempt to finalize the agreement that was outlined by the interim “joint plan of action" signed a year ago.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Capitol Reef National Park and other National Park Service (NPS) units that collect entrance fees from park visitors are beginning public engagement seeking comments on possible changes in park fees beginning in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Superintendent H. Lane Baker announced today that thevisitor centers at Chiricahua National Monument (NM), Coronado National Memorial (NMem), and Fort Bowie National Historic Site (NHS) will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27, so that the staff may enjoy the holiday with family and friends. The parks...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2014-VIVO, a Web application used internally by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists since 2012 to allow better national networking across disciplines and locations, is now available to the public. USDA VIVO will be a "one-stop shop" for Federal agriculture expertise and research outcomes.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, today issued the following statement regarding a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found certain procedures used by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to admit goods and products into the U.S to be inefficient and out-of-date...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two defendants were sentenced today in the Northern District of Texas for conspiring to bribe public officials in Afghanistan and Texas in furtherance of an ongoing effort to secure government contracts through graft, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Fortunato Rodelo-Lara and Jesus Wilfredo Almendares-Vasquez were convicted of two counts of engaging in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and one count of distribution of cocaine by a federal jury on Nov. 18, 2014, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeanette Driever, 37, of Grady, N.M., and John Jesse Perez, Jr., 45, of Clovis, N.M., entered guilty pleas today to federal drug trafficking charges. Each entered a guilty plea to participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Curry County, N.M. Their co-defendant Christopher Jason Kidd, 38, also of Clovis, N.M., pled guilty to a similar charge earlier this week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Superintendent H. Lane Baker announced today that thevisitor centers at Chiricahua National Monument (NM), Coronado National Memorial (NMem), and Fort Bowie National Historic Site (NHS) will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27, so that the staff may enjoy the holiday with family and friends. The parks...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: On National Rural Health Day, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced over $10 million in grants through two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs to improve access to health care for rural Americans across the nation. The Secretary also highlighted initiatives created by the Affordable Care Act that specifically address critical health needs in rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CAROLYN TREAUDO, age 53, of Marrero, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), announced that separate criminal charges were filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg against three illegal aliens.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following statement at the HELP Committee hearing on the nomination of Lauren McFerran to serve as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
