News from April 2015
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: DES PLAINES, Ill. - Each day, somewhere in this country, construction workers fall. One wrong step can send them tumbling down a steeply pitched roof, sliding or dropping off an unstable ladder, or left hanging fearfully from a scaffold. In these cases, one thing stands between them and tragedy: fall protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The mayor of Pine Lawn, Missouri, SYLVESTER CALDWELL, has pled guilty to charges involving the extortion of cash payments from the owner of a local towing company and from the owner of a Pine Lawn convenience store.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: John Corcoran IV, of Glenolden, PA, is charged by Indictment with numerous counts of child exploitation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Corcoran is charged with 20 counts of using or inducing a child to pose for child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. He is currently in custody awaiting trial.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - A prescribed fire at Wind Cave National Park escaped control early this afternoon and was designated a wildfire at 1:30 p.m. Several hours into the Unit 2 Cold Brook Burn this morning, an unpredicted fire whirl, or dust devil, picked up burning ash and carried material over 100 yards outside of the planned containment efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Janice McCumbie, age 45, of Marydel, Maryland, today to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to steal over $1.2 million from a consulting company. Judge Hazel entered an order that McCumbie forfeit and pay restitution of $1,249,267.53, the loss resulting from her conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: In 2013, Columbus, Georgia was the #2 location in the country for stolen identity affidavits filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 BEIJING – On April 9-10, 2015, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson visited Beijing in the People’s Republic of China. The purpose of the trip was to discuss issues of shared concern including counterterrorism, customs, immigration, cybersecurity, ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2015
News Release: Appomattox 150th Anniversary Goes Digital!. Appomattox, Va. -Go to: Can't make it to Appomattox Court House...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 11, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Georgia Berry & Vegetable LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On behalf of Secretary Jeh Johnson, who is currently traveling overseas, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of Lawrence Buckner, a Master Security employee contracted to the Federal Protective Service. Mr. Buckner died in the line of duty late last night at the Suitland Federal Facility in Maryland.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: USDA Continues to Remove Barriers and Open Trade Opportunities for U.S. Farmers and Ranchers DES MOINES, Iowa, April 10, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently reached agreements allowing U.S. beef and pork producers greater ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 10, 2015 - West-wide snowpack is melting earlier than usual, according to data from the fourth 2015 forecast by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A Topeka, Kansas, man has been charged in federal court with attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kansas, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of the District of Kansas and Special Agent in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Seven Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, residents were indicted today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of public money, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A Chino, California, businessman was sentenced to serve more than four years in prison yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas for his role in a conspiracy to promote and sell fraudulent tax products, including a product called Tax Break 2000, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A Jamaican man pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department announced today. Damion Bryan Barrett, 28, was extradited from Jamaica in February based on charges that he committed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A Colorado man was convicted by a federal jury of kidnapping a toddler and producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A second Topeka, Kansas, man was charged Friday in connection with an alleged plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kansas, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of the District of Kansas.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Today is a very sad day for our Department. On behalf of all of us at the Department of Commerce, I offer my deepest sympathy to the family of Lawrence Buckner, the Protective Security Officer assigned to Census, on their loss, and thank him and his family for his heroic and selfless service. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: By US Trade Representative Michael Froman and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker There are 11.7 million reasons to lead on trade. That’s the estimated number of American jobs supported by exports in 2014, our fifth consecutive year of record-breaking exports. These record performances are truly a “Team ...
