News from April 2015

By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: WARRENTON, Mo. - Twice in just 18 months, workers at Metso Minerals Industries Inc. were found in danger of suffering cuts, lacerations and amputation from dangerous machine hazards at the Warrenton metal-mesh manufacturer because their employer ignored important safety rules. Acting on a complaint, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa - A resident of Corry, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 39 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $1,000 on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SANDRA KIMBRO, 66, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing her deceased mother’s...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA special agents and Casa Grande Police detectives arrest a spice manufacturer and distributor known for the local spice brand “Headrush." Over 500 pounds of the synthetic cannabinoid was seized after detectives purchased 1000 packets of the illicit product during an undercover operation...

By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Enbridge G&P (North Texas) L.P.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen Mynatt, 31, of Cleveland, Ohio, was convicted in federal court today of selling heroin in Marshall County, West Virginia in April 2014, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Mann Chemical To Admit To Failing To Minimize The Chance Of Release Of Hydrofluoric Acid,.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Gallery Fully Reopened to the Public.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: April 6, 2015BOS 2015-069. ANDOVER, Mass. - Three roofing workers employed by Provencher Home Improvement of Beverly, Massachusetts were hospitalized after a two-story fall from a scaffold platform that broke beneath them, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that William J. Mabie, 56, of Festus, Missouri, was sentenced Friday, April 3, 2015, in federal district court in East St. Louis, following his conviction on Dec. 11, 2014, on three counts of Mailing Threatening Communications.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: As part of a major collaborative effort to develop a standard framework to make it easier for scientists to use "Big Data" sets in their work, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is publishing for public comment a draft NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - National capital region parks join national parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online atFindYourPark.com. To inspire area residents to find their park and to help engage a new generation of park stewards, area...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - As part of its ongoing probe into corruption at the Bristol Virginia Utilities Authority (BVU), the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, along with investigative partners at the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that a pair of former contractors who supplied BVU with false invoices have pled guilty.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced to 61 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $57,949, for his participation in identity theft schemes involving fraudulent income tax refunds and Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - National capital region parks join national parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com. To inspire area residents to find their park and to help engage a new generation of park stewards, area...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: FRANKFORT - A former deputy of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, who previously admitted to using evidence collected from an investigation to pay for personal expenses, has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison and two months of home incarceration.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, praised the recent release of a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), assessing technical options available to refiners to process more light tight oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Fairview, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, Senior United States District Judge David A. Ezra sentenced 44-year-old Daniel David Osuna of San Antonio to 225 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 3, 2015, WILLIE E. McKAY, 40, of New Haven, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to making a false claim to the Internal Revenue Service.