News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served and one year supervised release on his charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LAVELL STOVALL, 22, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to federal drug and firearms charges. STOVALL was one of seven defendants that were charged in a gang indictment that was returned on October 4, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 from 2:30 - 4 p.m. ET, Clean Energy States Alliance will host a webinar on the OE strategic plan, released in December 2014, which provides a roadmap for grid energy storage safety. OE's Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager, will present an overview of the strategic plan. The plan addresses the full range of grid-, utility-, community-, and residential-scale energy storage technologies.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.--Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) blasted the House Republican Leadership for passing legislation that bypasses federal agencies to allow construction on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. DeFazio helped lead Democratic opposition to the controversial legislation, which has been considered by the House ten times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Aan indictment was filed charging Jewel A. Washington, 50, of Toledo, with two counts of unauthorized access of a computer for private financial gain and one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax return information, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - With the guilty plea today of Ruth Fernandez Morales-Lopez, 32, six people have now been convicted for their roles in an alien smuggling operation operating throughout South Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala of Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Mark T. Vandeilen, 58, of Toledo, with grossly negligent operation of a vessel, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. January 8: Live Webinar on On-Bill Financing. Webinar Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The Energy Department and U.S. Department of Agriculture will present a live webinar titled "On-Bill Financing" on Thursday, January 8, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives debated earlier today the Save American Workers Act (H.R. 30), bipartisan legislation to repeal the health care law’s 30-hour definition of “full-time" employment and restore the traditional 40-hour work week.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: The proliferation of small, relatively inexpensive unmanned aircraft (UAS) presents the Federal Aviation Administration with a challenge in identifying people who don’t follow the rules of the air or who endanger the nation’s airspace. So, the agency is asking the law enforcement community for help.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, January 8, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR MORALES, 51, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special two-hour driving/walking tour ofChickamauga Battlefield on Saturday, January 24 at 2 pm. Participants will meet at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and drive to several points on the battlefield. There will also be a half mile of walking involved during this program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury has charged Jason W. Cox, 39, of Dublin, with structuring cash withdrawal transactions, and with mail and wire fraud in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service invites the public to participate in a day of volunteer service and education at Sequoia National Park on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. This event will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Foothills Visitor Center at 47050 Generals Highway...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: A Holland America cruise line crew member was sentenced to 30 years and five months imprisonment, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for his brutal attack and attempted murder of a female passenger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Washington ---- The former International Program Director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by submitting fraudulent documents to the State Department for adoptions from Ethiopia and paying bribes to foreign officials.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Working at an industrial facility is dangerous. An employer who ignores serious hazards and puts workers in harm's way threatens everyone's well-being, a point not lost on U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators who identified 25 serious safety and health violations after a July 2014 inspection at Transition of Superior Systems in Merkel. Fines totaled $51,600.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Cicero man was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for setting fire in January 2012 to his estranged girlfriend’s southwest side apartment that resulted in killing a man sleeping in the apartment next door. The defendant, JUAN ADAME, was convicted of federal arson in October 2013 after a week-long trial in U.S. District Court.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s formal organizational meeting for the 114th Congress has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today took another step forward in his work to advance American agriculture when he was selected to chair the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Roberts makes history becoming the first member of Congress to hold the top Agriculture post in both the U.S. House of Representatives and now in the U.S. Senate.
