News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mervin Ervin Charley, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to ten years in federal prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. Charley will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction netted $685,712.50 in revenues from the sale of 12 Federal leases, totaling 6390.19 acres, in Montana and North Dakota.Herco...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Are you fascinated by bone-chilling tales, especially at this time of the year? During the American Revolution, the soldiers and families of Fort Stanwix lived in fear every day they served at the wilderness outpost. Come for a candlelight visit of the fort and lean of three actual events that made life at the fort terrifying, both day and night.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that Christopher Joseph, age 35, Andrew Brown, a/k/a “Tank," age 35, and Megan Tonth, age 25, all of New Orleans, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan, after having previously pleaded guilty on July 16, 2014, to a cocaine trafficking indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Castle, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Inmate threw mixture of urine and feces at nurse in Terre Haute Federal Correctional Facility.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on today’s deadly shootings in Ottawa, Canada...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Forensic science research goes back a long way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-more than a century. In fact, the agency served as the nation's federal crime laboratory from 1913 to 1932, when the FBI established its own operation. Today, NIST research programs continue to make significant contributions to forensics, strengthening its scientific underpinnings and ensuring the credibility necessary for effective criminal justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Tammy Brooks Carpenter, age 41, of Memphis, TN, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on the charge of embezzling monetary payments from customers who had been issued motor vehicle citations by the City of Memphis, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Washington - 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 the impact of USDA investments in rural communities. Each state factsheet highlights specific...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Comments Invited on an Aquatic Park Promenade Rehabilitation Project and a Proposed Entrance Fee Increase.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Federal law enforcement officials are seeking information regarding the location of two persons who have been charged with federal drug, money laundering, and gambling offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, today sent a letter to the Departments of Treasury and Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Consumer Financial Protection...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Over the past several months, Energy and Commerce Committee members have brought the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative across the country. These local roundtables have strengthened the initiative as members continue to gather ideas from patients, researchers, and health care experts from each of their home districts.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) memorandum to the Secretary on the United States Secret Service (USSS). The memorandum...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Greg Alan Salard, 53, of Wrangell, Alaska, charging him with distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II. The roadmap focuses on strategic and tactical objectives to support the federal government's accelerated adoption of cloud computing. This final document reflects the input from more than 200 comments on the initial draft received from around the world.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Over the past several months, Energy and Commerce Committee members have brought the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative across the country. These local roundtables have strengthened the initiative as members continue to gather ideas from patients, researchers, and health care experts from each of their home districts.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the expanded recall of vehicles equipped with faulty Takata air bag inflators and warnings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week urging drivers to get their cars fixed over concerns that air bag rupture could lead to severe injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rashidah Brice, a/k/a “Camille," a/k/a “Milly," 25, of Chester, PA, was sentenced today to 185 months in prison for sex trafficking females for prostitution. Brice pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2013, to sex trafficking of a minor by force and two counts of sex trafficking by force. She...
