News from October 2014
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The new agriculture rule released in conjunction with the controversial Waters of the United States (WOTUS) proposal could fundamentally alter interaction between farmers and the federal government and should be immediately withdrawn, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee asserted today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Scott Eric Sherwood, 54, of Lorain, was charged with transporting and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By State Newswire | Oct 23, 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 on this morning’s report that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Inspector General withheld information from audit reports submitted to Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Harold Martinez, 32, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pine Hill, N.M., was sentenced today for his child abuse conviction. Martinez will serve a prison sentence of 16 months followed by a year of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Twenty-eight Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to President Obama, Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson seeking further answers on the administration’s...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: SEWARD, AK: Biologists from both Lake Clark and Kenai Fjords National Parks have nearly completed their field season investigating silver (coho) salmon in the upper Resurrection River system.Resurrection Bay drainages produce one of the state's largest coho salmon sport fisheries, which is supported...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Doug Coleman, Special Agent in (SAC) of the Phoenix Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today that the DEA is launching an anonymous Texting Tip Line for the public to report illegal prescription drug activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jose Fuentes, 43, of Providence, was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Penn Hills resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years imprisonment and five years supervised release, and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. -The last of four defendants who participated in the high speed robberies of four Las Vegas convenience stores during April 2012, was sentenced to prison this week, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa pleaded guilty today to stealing prescription painkillers from the mail and to breaking into the Skyland Post Office, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection Service Team Leader Frank Dyer.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC– Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Under Secretary for Science and Technology, today announced the new visionary goals for the department’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced two new partnerships between the DHS Blue Campaign—the unified voice for DHS’ efforts to combat human trafficking—and the City of Phoenix and the Arizona Human Trafficking Council of the Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC– Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Under Secretary for Science and Technology, today announced the new visionary goals for the department’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC– Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Science and Technology, today announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Griffin as the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Deputy Under Secretary.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON — Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today participated in the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C. to highlight the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment to working with the ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: New Data Demonstrates Obama Administration's Record Breaking Investments in Rural America WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2014 – As part of the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) commitment to strengthening rural economies, Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new state-by-state "Made in Rural America" report illustrating ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $190.5 million in grants and loans to make broadband and other advanced communications infrastructure improvements in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: An order of permanent injunction against The Zaken Corp. of Thousand Oaks, California, and company president Tiran Zaken, of Calabasas, California, was entered today by U.S. District Court Judge Dean D. Pregerson, finding that they made false and misleading statements in marketing work-at-home business ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – Alan Dresner, a federally-licensed fish dealer from Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, for violations stemming from his role in systematically underreporting fluke (summer flounder) that was being harvested as part of the federal Research Set-Aside (RSA) Program, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division announced.
