News from April 2015
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Ongoing development and testing of a new melon fruit fly lure derived from cucumbers may lead to improved monitoring and control of this costly agricultural pest. That's the goal of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists who developed the lure in studies at the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit in Hilo, Hawaii.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup of S. 335, as modified, a bipartisan bill to strengthen 529 college savings plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Indiana Woman Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate and House Agriculture Committee leadership today called for emergency assistance to be released to poultry and egg producers whose flocks suffered losses due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N2 infections.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Nikolay Zakharyan, age 24, of Owings Mills, Maryland, for conspiracy to receive, possess, sell and distribute over $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes, that is, cigarettes on which the applicable state taxes have not been paid. Nikolay’s father, Artur Zakharyan, age 54, of Reisterstown, pleaded guilty before trial to his participation in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Federal charges have been filed against Avery Lamarr Ayers, 48, of Houston, alleging he committed wire fraud by deceiving a foreign company into sending him more than $350,000 to which he was entitled, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Nakia Calicat, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to concealing the death of her child in order to continue receiving Supplemental Security Income payments for her deceased daughter. Calicat pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud, one count of theft of government money, two...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A River Grove man was sentenced to 3 years in prison today as a result of his conviction for impersonating an employee of the U.S. Marshals Service on two occasions in 2013. The defendant, ROBERT P. ROZYCKI, 39pledguilty to the offense in November 2014. U.S. District Court Judge John J. Tharp...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Convicted domestic offender Zachary Burton Taylor, 22, of Stonewood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to congratulate Chairman Diaz-Balart and Ranking Member Price in their new roles as chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, and I thank them and full committee Chairman Rogers for their work. The Chairman has worked very hard to be attentive to the concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a New Jersey man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on multiple drug trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alagnak Wild River, and Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve - Visitors and residents are reminded that as dead vegetation becomes exposed and begins to cure due to dry windy days, elevated fire danger conditions will quickly develop. These conditions mean that...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a vote of 28 to 22. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, underscored the need for Congress to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2016 budget request to help ensure that the Department can efficiently and effectively carry out its vital missions.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2045, the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters (TROL) Act, by a vote of 30 to 22. Authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), the TROL Act is a balanced and targeted solution to help stop the practice of abusive patent demand letters while protecting the rights of legitimate patent holders to protect their intellectual property.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a vote of 28 to 22. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who illegally possessed a firearm pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Melvin Tucker, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, crack cocaine, was sentenced to 36 months by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Access to affordable and reliable electricity allows us to cool and heat our homes and powers our economy, but EPA is threatening to restrict access to affordable energy with its proposed regulations on power plants. Under EPA’s proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency...
