News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant arrested after leading Stevens County Sheriff’s Office on high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Rodney Joel Neal (53, Montezuma, Georgia) has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Neal has been in custody since his arrest on Oct. 10, 2014.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: New nutrition and health findings in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs include research showing that about 2 percent of the cattle grazing in a pasture or eating high-energy rations in a feedlot pen, on average, may be "supershedders"-shedding high levels of pathogenic organisms such as Escherichia coli O157:H7 in their manure.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- After a two-day trial in District Court on St. Thomas, a federal jury today found Jace Clendinen, 31, guilty of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: A Macomb County business owner pleaded guilty yesterday to intentionally setting a fire at his commercial laundry facility to collect on an insurance policy, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the top ranking Democrats on 16 House Committees sent a letter to all Members of the House of Representatives denouncing the recent effort by House Republicans to vastly expand the ability of committee chairmen to issue unilateral subpoenas with no debate and no vote.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The Murie Science and Learning Center, with the support of Alaska Geographic, is awarding scholarships to teachers for accredited courses taking place in Denali National Park and Preserve. These field-based courses are small group intensives that expose teachers to science, research, and educational...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, February 12 at 11:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education will hold a hearing to explore the use of new technology in the classroom and examine the need to modernize the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The hearing, entitled “How Emerging Technology Affects Student Privacy," will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is taking the first step in a series of actions needed to dispose of slivers of public lands in the historic mining district of Leadville, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jeffrey Erra Osborne, 49, of Clendenin, West Virginia, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Four employees were hospitalized, two of them critically injured, after an explosion at a St. Louis trucking terminal on Aug. 6, 2014. The explosion's cause: a forklift's ignition source and a loose coupling connection to a liquid propane gas tank. An investigation of the incident by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Ronald Randolph Radford, 68, of Johnson City, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 9, 2015, to serve 15 years in prison followed by a 10 year term of supervised release with special conditions of release, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a KEVIN BETTS, also known as “KK," 28, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Lake Mead National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service, is seeking public comment on a proposed recreation fee increase.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on the Front Range Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 45 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lance M. Szady, 26, of Augusta, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to pharmacy robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: AUGUSTA, Maine - Employees at Formed Fiber Technologies LLC's Auburn manufacturing plant use a variety of machines, including robots, to make polyester carpets and thermoformed trunk liners for the automotive industry. An inspection by U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration begun in September 2014, has found these workers at risk of injuries because their employer did not ensure proper safeguards on the machines they operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Amy Reyes, 32, a former deputy with the Starr County Sheriff’s (SCSO), and her bother Bobby Lee Reyes, 36, both of Rio Grande City, have entered guilty pleas to possession with intent to distribute 34 kilograms of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 44-year-old Wills Point, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
