News from December 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: TUPELO, MS: On December 4, 2015, United States Attorney Robert Mims from Oxford, MS and National Park Service Supervisory Park Ranger John Hearne from the Natchez Trace Parkway each received a national level award from the National Park Service Traffic Safety Coalition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The Ohio County, West Virginia Sheriff’s Office is adding a new tool to its arsenal in the effort to save the lives of drug overdose victims, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, and Sheriff Pat Butler announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Allen Pierceall, 54, of Denver, Colo., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to committing three banks robberies, two in Colorado and one in New Mexico, between Aug. 2014 and Aug. 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Taveras, Fla. - For employees working with hazardous substances, an oversight can be disastrous - an unfortunate lesson learned by six Florida workers at a Blue Rhino propane tank refurbishing facility in Taveras who were injured during a fire.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK, ND -- Ice conditions at Lake Audubon are unstable and unsafe due to fluctuating water levels and warmer temperatures. Ice thickness varies from feet to only inches within very short distances. Lake Audubon should never be considered safe for vehicle traffic no matter how cold the temperatures may become.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote Tuesday to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, requesting inclusion of S. 2362, the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, in the Senate’s final omnibus package.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jacob J. Loredo, 29, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 87 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms and drug trafficking laws.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: After twenty-four years in the Army and five years of retirement during which he worked on his PhD in Business, Jeff Harper was looking for a change. Harper recently moved to Boise to become the new National Park Service human resources assistant at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: COLONA, Ill. - Workers were overexposed to the solvent methylene chloride and other hazards while they reconditioned bucket trucks at a Colona dealership and repair facility, inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. When workers inhale and absorb the solvent through the skin, it can harm the heart and nervous system.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, due to Congressional inaction, the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Board of Governors has lost another two of its nine Senate-confirmed members, leaving only one appointed official to do the work of managing USPS activity alongside the Postmaster General and her management team. There are currently five nominees pending before the Senate.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a second legislative hearing on the Chairman Rob Bishop’s tribal recognition bill (H.R. 3764 ) to hear from input from Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Native American leaders today highlighted their opposition to the premise of this morning’s Natural Resources Committee hearing on H.R. 3764, introduced by Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), which would make federal recognition of tribes dependent solely on congressional approval rather...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with selling cocaine on multiple occasions in Leominster.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Bourne, Mass. man was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 3 for distributing heroin on Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Tennessee man pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges he helped launch cyber-attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the world.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued examining Obamacare’s state insurance marketplaces. The hearing was Part II of a two-part series - Part I looked at the individual state marketplaces, Part II examined the role being played by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks on the Senate floor as debate began on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the bipartisan legislation she worked on to fix No Child Left...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Charles Heath Stewart, 43, of Grand Ridge, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to 720 months in prison for producing child pornography. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Two defendants who pleaded guilty in August to felony offenses stemming from their respective roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy were sentenced this morning, by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to lengthy federal prison sentences, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Due to the aggressive collection efforts of the Northern District’s Financial Litigation Unit, Lorna Jean Vanlandingham, the former Treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Police Oklahoma State Lodge and the Tulsa Fraternal Order of Police, has been forced to repay $306,577.24 in restitution, fine and special assessment fees, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr.
