News from February 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: “We are here today to learn more about the implementation of the President’s executive actions on immigration. I think that is fair and reasonable oversight for this Committee. As with any new government initiative, there are likely to be a variety of bureaucratic challenges that must be addressed. So I look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses about the challenges that might lie ahead, as well as some possible solutions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. Press Release. Feb. 2, 2015. Join the National Park Service in Ringing "Bells across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox". For the past four years, the National Park Service and many other organizations and individuals have been commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Todd County, Kentucky man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Greg Stivers to 20 years in prison, to be followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, for persuading, inducing and coercing two minor females to engage in sexually explicit conduct and for receiving child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging two convicted sex offenders with failing to properly update their registration, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: BLUE ISLAND, Ill. - Without proper protections, employees who work with lead can bring this toxic metal home on their clothes, shoes, skin, hair and hands with the potential to poison children and other family members. "Take-home lead" as it's called is particularly dangerous for pregnant women and preschoolers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: FRANKLIN, Ohio - Mere months after two employees were injured by dangerous machines, Burrows Paper Corp. again put workers at risk. Acting on a complaint, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found workers unjamming and servicing machines without proper safeguards during an Aug. 25, 2014, inspection. This is the fourth time in the past year that Burrows has been cited for hazards* at its Franklin food box manufacturing facility.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, following reports of infections at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and other health care facilities around the country, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to provide health care professionals with updated safety guidance and best practices for reusable medical devices.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: News Release from the Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to discuss the fiscal year 2016 budget, said Congress must continue its legacy of building and improving health programs that keep millions of Americans financially secure and healthy.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE) and Shell Canada announced today they intend to collaborate in field tests to validate advanced monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) technologies for underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Willie Slocum, Jr., 36, of Detroit, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Jeffrey Bado, 59, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegally distributing pain medications from his Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr medical offices, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Bado is charged with two counts of maintaining a drug-involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that YOSMANY NUNEZ, also known as “El Gato," 42, of Southwest Ranches, Fla., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: It was nice to see our Chairman on Meet the Press Sunday indicating that he wanted to work with the Administration, and with us, to find common ground on common aspects of tax reform this year. Areas where we can agree.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Harley J. Hervey, 63, of Mentor, with theft of public money, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging MICHAEL RONALD GARANT, 42, for acting as a straw purchaser of three firearms for Ray Kmetz. GARANT is charged by complaint with making a false statement to acquire firearms on behalf of another person. GARANT will appear today before Magistrate Judge Steven Rau in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: Thirty-five Defendants - Including 24 Doctors - Have Pleaded Guilty to Roles in Massive Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Javier E. Rivas, 35, of San Francisco, was sentenced in a Pensacola federal courtroom today for conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine. Senior United States District Judge Roger Vinson sentenced Rivas to 25 years’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervision upon release. The sentence was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining ICD-10 Implementation."
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing to examine the challenge of modern day slavery today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for Congress to “create and lead a vision" to end this deplorable practice world-wide.
