News from October 2014
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former longshoreman was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to extort others in Local 1235 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester woman was sentenced today for stealing more than a quarter million dollars in government benefits to which she was not entitled.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-- The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting public comments through Oct. 30, 2014 on the second phase of proposed fee increases for picnic pavilions at Rock Creek and Fort Dupont Parks. Under the proposal, a half day reservation would cost $45 beginning Jan. 1, 2015. Fee changes will fund the picnic areas’ upkeep and improve the level of service provided to visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Florence couple to hundreds of years in prison for exploiting and sexually abusing a minor child in their custody to produce images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - With Halloween rapidly approaching, federal officials are warning the public about the dangers associated with counterfeit decorative contact lenses. Decorative and colored lenses are becoming increasing popular, especially around this time of year.
By EPA 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: NORFOLK, Va. -Antwan Black, a/k/a “Twizzy," 31, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison, followed by 8 years of supervised release for the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine. He was further sentenced to an additional consecutive 5 years in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 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, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced today that a 26-year-old native and citizen of Mexico has been charged with illegal reentry into the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and continue U.S. leadership in clean energy innovation, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced more than $53 million for 40 innovative research and development (R&D) projects that aim to drive down the cost...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc., one of the leading providers of dialysis services in the United States, has agreed to pay $350 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics, the Justice Department announced today. DaVita is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and has dialysis clinics in 46 states and the District of Columbia.
By DOE 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: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Ryan Earl Bess, 33, of Ridgeway, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with one count of conspiring with two other individuals...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the annual meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Regional Fishing Management Council (RFMC) where they are debating the future of red snapper allocations. This week the Gulf Council is considering Amendment 40, which would divide the recreational red snapper sector.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park will reach out to community stakeholders, gather input from neighbors at a public open house, create an online comment forum, and use social media to discuss possible fee increases in 2015. The current park entrance fees havebeen in place since 2000.A table showing the current and proposed fees is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Thomas Gregory Lilley, 36, of Fontana, California, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to charges that he possessed methamphetamine with intent to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: SWIMMER’S ITCH POSSIBLE THIS TIME OF YEAR.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle, announced that on Oct. 20, 2014, Todd David Doughty (age: 50), owner of the “Thunderbird Game Farm" in Chilton, Wisconsin, was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, and had his hunting, fishing and trapping privileges revoked for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has made an initial appearance in the Eastern District of Texas on drug trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will hold 17 public hearings this fall on proposed regulations and environmental assessment related to sport hunting in Alaska's national preserves.
