News from September 2014
By USDA Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will have a public meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, from October 28-30, 2014. In advance of the meeting, USDA is accepting public comments.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Santa Fe, NM - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has partnered with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to offer mobile maps of New Mexico's big-game hunting units through the CarryMap Application. This unique application allows users to store hunting unit maps on their mobile devices and access...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: A Cuyahoga Falls man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to purchase a 10-year-old girl, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 8, 2014, Richard Shane Mabe, 35, of Mountain City, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 240 months in prison. Upon his release from prison, he will be subject to supervision by the U.S. Probation Office for five years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week will build upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s strong #RecordOfSuccess by considering nine more committee bills related to energy, health care, and telecommunications. In the 113th Congress, approximately 70 committee bills have passed the House and over two-dozen have been signed into law.
By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) wrote Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) asking him to invite Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to speak before a joint session of Congress on September 18th during his upcoming visit to Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Forfeited Assets from 2009 drug case distributed to 33 law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today the distribution of $12,515,738 which represented the proceeds of assets seized in a marijuana distribution conspiracy. Of the total assets, $8,923,708.19 has been distributed to 33 law enforcement agencies in the Capitol District...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, PA -The Friends of the Flight 93 National Memorial have announced that Henry Scully of Pittsburgh and Ligonier has been named Executive Director. The Friends of Flight 93 is the official non-profit supporting organization for the Memorial, established in 2009 to work with the National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Christian Robert Michael Paradis, 34, of the State line area-at various times a resident of New Plymouth, Fruitland and Payette, Idaho, and Ontario, Oregon-was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and felon in possession of a firearm...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week will build upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s strong #RecordOfSuccess by considering nine more committee bills related to energy, health care, and telecommunications. In the 113th Congress, approximately 70 committee bills have passed the House and over two-dozen have been signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for just over ten hours, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, a federal jury of six men and six women found Michael Eugene Gorny guilty of one count of violation federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Defendant Shaun Taylor Led Violent Narcotics Trafficking Ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Thomas Jefferson Kirby, Jr., age 50, of Burtonsville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to theft of government property.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding a June 3, 2014, request for information on state-run health exchanges. The committee leaders write, “Despite the committee’s extensive efforts to accommodate...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding a June 3, 2014, request for information on state-run health exchanges. The committee leaders write, “Despite the committee’s extensive efforts to accommodate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, TERESA LYN FLETCHER, age 54, of Raleigh, North Carolina pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank to two counts of bank fraud and one count of mail fraud. At sentencing, FLETCHER faces a statutory maximum of 80 years imprisonment, a $2,250,000 fine, 5 years of supervised release, and $300 in special assessments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Kevin Michael Stehlik has been sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Production of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), and Possession of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: Digital evidence, one of the fastest growing areas of forensic science, will now have its own subcommittee in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-administered Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC). NIST is establishing the OSAC to identify and develop national standards and guidelines for forensic science practitioners to strengthen forensic science in the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week will build upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s strong #RecordOfSuccess by considering nine more committee bills related to energy, health care, and telecommunications. In the 113th Congress, approximately 70 committee bills have passed the House and over two-dozen have been signed into law.
