News from February 2015
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced six bipartisan bills to help patients and local communities, increase efficiency at the FCC, and help protect drinking water from harmful algae blooms known as cyanotoxins. H.R. 471, H.R. 639 H.R. 648, H.R. 647, H.R. 734, and H.R. 212 all passed the committee by voice vote.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: STOCKTON, Ill. - A 49-year-old man plunged about nine stories to his death while painting a communication tower near Stockton, Illinois, because his employer, Sherwood Tower Service, did not provide an adequate fall protection system while he worked high above the ground. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the Aug. 10, 2014 fatality, and cited two willful and one serious safety violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of a Complaint against a doctor who participated in a drug distribution conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced six bipartisan bills to help patients and local communities, increase efficiency at the FCC, and help protect drinking water from harmful algae blooms known as cyanotoxins. H.R. 471, H.R. 639 H.R. 648, H.R. 647, H.R. 734, and H.R. 212 all passed the committee by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Ft. Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Christopher Hall (44, Bonita Springs) with one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today on the Senate floor, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted the Patient CARE Act, a plan authored by Hatch, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) that repeals and replaces the health care law with patient-centered reforms.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We remain deeply concerned that Pakistan has failed to take meaningful action against key Islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory. Like you, we were horrified by the December attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar which killed almost 150 people, mostly school...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that John Lanier Britt, age 52, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced Tuesday to one hundred months imprisonment to be followed by six years Supervised Release for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, by Chief United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 47-year-old Kidder Township man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik in Scranton, for producing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) introduced, “The Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act of 2015" in both the Senate and House. The legislation...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Friday, Feb. 20, at the Montrose Public Lands Center (2465 S. Townsend Ave.).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC SAMUEL MOTINO-ALVAREZ, age 27, a citizen of Honduras with a prior felony conviction, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Douglas Kushen, 44, of Elyria, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today, in U.S. District Court in Billings, a Rapid City, South Dakota woman received 22 years in federal prison for her role in a 2013 murder on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Eugenia Ann Rowland, 42, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Antoine C. Cook, aka “Twan", age 42, of Junction City, Arkansas, was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine;...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -The National Park Service is pleased to announce its first major construction project that will take place at Vancouver Barracks, a new integral part of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Mark Allen Kelly, 54 of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possessing and producing counterfeit military ID cards and making false statements to federal agents before U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Kenneth Ray Graham, age 38, of Baltimore, today for attempting to commit an armed robbery, possessing and discharging a weapon in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has released the Annual Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report (AFMER), a comprehensive listing of manufacturing and export activity from all federally licensed manufacturers of firearms and destructive devices. The report is now available online at www.atf.gov.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Mr. Lopez, welcome to your first hearing before the Subcommittee. I look forward to your testimony and thank you for joining us today.
