News from October 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released brief summaries of five EPW Republicans staff reports that take a hard look at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and matters of critical energy, environment and public policy concern. ...
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the state of relations between the United States and Israel...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Nicolas Padron Ran “Cash Only" Padron Wellness Clinic In Dallas “Patients" Often Recruited From Homeless Shelters.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has travelled across the country for the past several months as members seek more ideas from medical innovators, patients, families, and health leaders from their states and districts in the effort to accelerate the pace of cures and save more lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal prosecutor will be on duty during election day to respond promptly to complaints of possible election fraud and voting rights violations in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging JEROME T. WALKER...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Fourteen alleged members of a cross-country drug trafficking organization are charged in a federal grand jury indictments with conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and ultra-dangerous fentanyl to locations throughout the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the final appointments to the Organization for Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), established to coordinate development of standards and guidelines for the forensic science community. The organization is bringing a uniform structure to what was previously an ad hoc system with the goal of improving the quality and consistency of forensic science in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., pleaded guilty to beating a fellow inmate resulting in traumatic brain injury.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The request follows the committee’s extensive investigation into the General Motors ignition switch recall.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The request follows the committee’s extensive investigation into the General Motors ignition switch recall.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Cordey Jermel Adams (34, St. Petersburg) to 15 years and eight months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Adams pleaded guilty on Nov. 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced criminal charges today against JUAN MEDINA. MEDINA faces federal charges for lying to the United States Secret Service about his responsibility for making a fake emergency call about a plot to assassinate the President...
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement criticizing the move by the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, who has been in power for nearly three decades, to stay in power by amending the constitutional provision on term limits...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be celebrating Veteran's Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and the park has authorized free camping at Alum Ford Campground and free backcountry camping permits for this date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tier NY, LLC, located in Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott, to negligent endangerment under the Clean Air Act. The charge is punishable by a fine of $200,000 and a possible term of probation of up to five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed Greater Mooses Tooth Unit oil and gas development project (GMT1), opening the way for the first production of oil and gas on federal land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and providing a new source for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has travelled across the country for the past several months as members seek more ideas from medical innovators, patients, families, and health leaders from their states and districts in the effort to accelerate the pace of cures and save more lives.
