News from September 2014
By EPA Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, to discuss the Federal Communications Commission’s management and spending. The hearing will continue the committee’s oversight of the FCC and follows the committee’s requests for documents regarding the commission’s workload and backlog.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two more members of Laguna Pueblo have entered guilty pleas to crimes arising out of the drive-by shooting of an Acoma Pueblo home in Dec. 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A 54-year old Mercer County man, David A. Punturi, was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Punturi must also pay $2,500 in restitution to victims. Today’s sentence was handed down by Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber in Bluefield.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative heads to Colorado on Wednesday, Sept. 3, as Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) hosts a panel of national and local health care leaders, thinkers, and innovators for a roundtable to discuss opportunities to accelerate the discovery, development, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that Efrain Grimaldo, a resident of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Sarah S. Vance to serve 405 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David H. Scanlan III, formerly of Harrisburg and currently of Bentonville, Virginia, and a former pediatric oncology resident at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, was sentenced to five years in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Timberlake, North Carolina, woman pleaded guilty to health care fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “State Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The founder of a mortgage brokerage firm pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Omar Hance, age 33, of Baltimore, today to 110 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a series of commercial robberies. Judge Hollander also ordered Hance to pay $4,310 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jason Whren, 33, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing and prostituting a 15-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative heads to Colorado on Wednesday, Sept. 3, as Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) hosts a panel of national and local health care leaders, thinkers, and innovators for a roundtable to discuss opportunities to accelerate the discovery, development, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced the owners and operators of Richard Joseph SalonSpas in the Birmingham area to three years in prison for conspiring to avoid paying more than $1 million in employment taxes to the IRS, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pablo Plaza, born in 1976, who was convicted of the murder of Francisco Santos on the Seneca Indian Reservation in Erie County, N.Y., in October 1998, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “21st Century Cures: Examining the Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests." Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration, will be among the witnesses.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2014
News Release: Dates: Saturday & Sunday, September 20th & 21st.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON--The National Park Service will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the British capture of Washington D.C. and the burning of the White House in 1814. On August 23 and 24, 2014 President's Park will host a series of interactive programs on the Ellipse, located near 15th and E Streets NW. All events are free. Ranger-led programs will start at the temporary White House Visitor Center.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2014
News Release: Date: Sunday September 21st & 28th.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2014
News Release: Take part in a Rocky Mountain tradition: listening for the bugling of the bull Elk (Wapiti) on an autumn evening.Join a ranger at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument to learn about listen to the wild Wapiti.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2014
News Release: Date: Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Time: 9:30 am -1:30 pm. Length: 3.5 miles. Difficulty Level: Moderately challenging with significant ascents and descents. Hikers should wear sturdy walking shoes and bring a full water bottle and a packed lunch or hearty trail snacks. Mysterious Spruce Hill is the world's...
