News from February 2015
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today introduced legislation to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. Based on a proposal passed by the House in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Ryan Hornback, a former Cobb County Parks and Recreation employee who also ran a photography business as a second job, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A 42-year-old Wolf Point man was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for stomping and beating a man so violently that the man died two days later. Great Falls United States District Court Judge Brian Morris sentenced Mervin Hale, Jr., to 168 months in prison, followed by a term of 4 years supervised release. Hale previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee roundtable on Fixing No Child Left Behind: Innovation to Better Meet the Needs of Students. In her opening statement, Murray explained that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael Kurnik, 26, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to five years of probation for conspiring to traffic in counterfeit goods. He was also ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution. Kurnik pled guilty to the offense on Oct. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Steven Miller, 30, of Brooklyn, NY, Jenna Gonyo, 29, of Colchester, VT and Cleveland London, 22, of Brooklyn, NY, made initial appearances on Jan. 30, 2015, in the United States District Court in Burlington, following...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA). Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. Hearing on “How the Changing Energy Markets Will Affect U.S. Transportation". Feb. 3, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Over the last decade, this country has undergone an unprecedented energy renaissance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERMAINE JENKINS, 34, formerly of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: H & W Contracting, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-On Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a phone call reporting a missing individual last known to be at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a free 45-minute talk at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District on Saturday, February 14 at 2 pm. Parking will be at the future visitor center site off Hamm Road on Moccasin Bend."Special Event" signs will be posted along the road to help guide visitors to the program location.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: LONDON, KY - An optometry practice in Pulaski County has agreed to pay the U.S. Government $800,000 to settle civil allegations that it billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary and worthless eye examinations provided to nursing home residents over the course of several years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Owes $1.5 Million. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kimberling City, Mo., man who worked as an emergency room physician was sentenced in federal court today for failing to file tax returns despite earning hundreds of thousands...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) made an appearance on Meet the Press this morning. In his interview with moderator Chuck Todd, Chairman Ryan talked about the committee’s focus on an “optimistic agenda for the country." Excerpts from his interview are below.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TAUREAN JACKSON, age 25, from Dallas, Texas, pled guilty today to conspiring to traffic a minor from the Dallas area into the New Orleans area for the purposes of that minor engaging in prostitution and obstructing a federal investigation into his conduct.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) today sent letters to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: AUBURN, Ala. - During an inspection of an automobile parts manufacturer, federal inspectors found that permanent and temporary employees faced electrocution, having their hands and limbs disabled or amputated by moving machine parts, and dangerous falls while working at the SCA Inc. facility in Auburn. SCA manufactures auto parts, such as blowers, heaters and evaporators for Hyundai, Kia and Ford Motor Co.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy has scheduled a markup on Thursday, February 5, 2015, to consider H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act. The markup will begin immediately following the conclusion of the subcommittee’s hearing on the legislation.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) today sent letters to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance...
