News from December 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking information regarding the use of social media platforms by EPA to promote the agency’s climate rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Antwoine Tomlin, 32, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with committing an armed robbery, on Nov. 19, 2015, at the United States Post Office, located at 6382 Castor Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Tomlin was also charged with use of a firearm in connection with that robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Paintsville Mayor Robert Porter and the former general manager of the local, public utility commission have been accused of misappropriating property and city resources.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: (Omaha, Nebraska) Western National Parks Association, a nonprofit education partner of the National Park Service, has been working to connect new generations to parks in meaningful ways since 1938. They are committed to helping parks tell the story of America in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world through new knowledge, new understanding, and new ways to engage with society.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that David Wayne Henry was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for unlawful production of false identification documents which appeared to be issued under the authority of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Alonzo Diangelo Bell, 32, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for manufacturing marijuana and maintaining drug-involved premises.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking information regarding the use of social media platforms by EPA to promote the agency’s climate rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal heroin charge. Thomas Kerr Clements, 53, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for two hours, a federal jury of nine women and three men found Rodney Howard guilty of one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute 100 Grams or More of Heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Obamacare’s thoughtless taxes were devised behind closed doors, without regard for their negative consequences, in an effort to cobble together enough money to pay for the President’s health law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS-United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced the guilty verdict against an Anderson man who filed fraudulent forms with the IRS. Charles Petrunak, 45, Anderson, was found guilty on three counts of making and subscribing false and fraudulent forms to the IRS before U. S. District Judge William T. Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DAKOTA LANE WILLISTON, age 20, of Idabel, Oklahoma was sentenced in federal court today to life without the possibility of release in connection with the 2013 beating death of a two-year-old girl from Idabel, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today an indictment charging George L. Turner, Jr., 41, of Ladson, South Carolina and Clayton G. Wickersham, age 34, of Summerville, South Carolina, with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Bank Fraud, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth, Texas, woman, Shanda Brite, 28, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 120 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in July 2015 to one count of maintaining a drug involved premise, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Gerrit Mora, 22, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute MDMA (“Ecstasy"), was sentenced to time-served, six months of home confinement, and two years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) replaced the color-coded alerts of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) with the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), designed to more effectively communicate information about terrorist threats by providing timely, detailed information to the American public.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2015 – In support of the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly released the Biogas Opportunities Roadmap Progress Report today, updating the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with the Chicago Board of Education, which oversees the third largest school district in the United States, to resolve allegations that the board discriminated against pregnant teachers in violation of federal law. The civil lawsuit, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Conspired to Modify Lethal Radiation Device to be Used to Kill Muslims in New York State Eric J. Feight, 55, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced today to serve 97 months in prison for providing material support to terrorists. The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian of the Northern District of New York and Special Agent in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the FBI’s Albany, New York, Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Director Ronald Davis today announced the appointment of Noble Wray, retired Madison, Wisconsin, police chief, to lead its newly created Policing Practices and Accountability Initiative.
