News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Michael William Lutts, a 52-year-old foster parent and pediatric nurse, was sentenced in federal court today to the statutory maximum 80 years in prison for sexually exploiting a two-month-old premature boy and an 11-month-old girl who had been placed in his care in 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) today announced that it is rescheduling the oil and gas lease sale previously scheduled for Dec. 10, 2015. It will be held concurrently with the next quarterly oil and gas lease sale already scheduled for March 17, 2016. A formal notice of the March lease sale will be published shortly.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: On December 4, 2015, at the New Mexico Joint Stockmen's Convention, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presented both Alamogordo rancher Colt Howland and Roswell rancher Clyde Harrison the 2015 BLM Restore New Mexico Land Stewardship Award. They received their awards for their work to improve range...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the road on top of Keswick Dam will be closed for public safety Wednesday, Dec. 9, starting at 7 a.m. until around 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neil sentenced Mark Threet, 52, of Modesto, today to two years in prison for making a false claim for a tax refund, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - United States Attorney Kevin W. Techau announced today that the Northern District of Iowa collected $16,332,696 million in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2015, more than twice the office’s direct budget. Monies collected are returned to the federal treasury and victims of crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Junction City man was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine in Junction City and Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset, New Jersey, man who was pulled over with an air tank hiding 19 kilograms of cocaine and seven kilograms of heroin today admitted his intent to distribute the drugs in the Jersey City, New Jersey, area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Miguel Angel Osuna-Zavala, 42, and his wife Diane Osuna, 44, of Wendell, Idaho, were sentenced today to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Inhofe Raises Concerns Over Novel Social Cost of Methane Estimates
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph P. Donahue, age 61, was sentenced today to 46 months (3 years and 10 months) in prison by United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo in Wilkes-Barre. Donahue was convicted on September...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, highlighted the opening of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) application process for Fiscal Year 2015 and encouraged applicants to submit their grant requests. The application period is open from December 7, 2015 through Jan. 15, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today highlighted a World Trade Organization (WTO) decision authorizing Canada and Mexico to place tariffs on over $1 billion of American-made goods.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, during the Senate and House conference committee meeting on H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, Senate Finance Committee Chairman and conferee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) delivered the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House of Representatives approved legislation co-authored by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that would strengthen coordination among federal agencies to identify and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of ongoing bicameral collaboration to protect Medicaid services for the most vulnerable, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Bruce Pennington, age 64, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, the former Saline...
