News from January 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - To reach the next level of safety, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today issued a final rule that requires most U.S. commercial airlines to have Safety Management Systems (SMS) in place by 2018. The rule builds on the programs many airlines already use to identify and reduce aviation risk.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: The Obama administration this week wasted little time in voicing its opposition to jobs and secure energy. Less than 90 minutes into the start of the new Congress, the White House Tuesday signaled a veto threat on H.R. 3, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, despite overwhelming bipartisan support for the measure...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the committee will conduct its formal organizational meeting for the 114th Congress this Friday, January 9, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The meeting will include the...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: PEKIN, Ill. - A 37-year-old worker at Agridyne's Pekin facility climbed down into a rail car to clean out corn steep residue and was overcome by dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas. A 29-year-old tank inspector, who attempted to rescue the first worker, succumbed to the gas exposure as well. Neither worker made it out of the car alive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Demarcus A. Buford, a 37-year old Jefferson City, Missouri, man was sentenced on January 7, 2015, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of failure to...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comments on a proposal to develop oil and gas resources in the Denver Julesburg Basin.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement condemning the terrorist attack in France that left at least 12 people dead at the offices of a satirical newspaper...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Camp Verde, AZ -Montezuma Castle National Monument will hold a public meeting at the Montezuma-Rimrock Fire Department on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael D. Schluter, 46, formerly of Irondequoit, N.Y., who was convicted after a jury trial of production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity, was sentenced to 262 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
Release: Thai lumber company executives (including Opas Panitchewakul, Pracha Thawornjira, Jaroonsak Cheewatammanon, Khomwit Boonthamrongkit and Wasant Sonchaiwanich) tour the Mauvila Timber distribution warehouse in Loxly, Ala., with Lane Merchant (left), the company’s general manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, who admitted committing the armed robberies of insurance companies in Dallas last year, received a lengthy federal prison sentence today, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the committee will conduct its formal organizational meeting for the 114th Congress this Friday, January 9, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The meeting will include the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Edward Neil Feldman, M.D. (75, Tampa) and his wife, Kim Xuan Feldman (65, Tampa), with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and without...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DERRICK HOWARD, 46,of Greenville, North Carolina, to 108 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Donald P. Blair, age 56, of Dundalk, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. Judge Quarles ordered that upon his release from prison, Blair must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - ―A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictment today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Patrick James Murray, age 50, formerly an inmate of the Jefferson County Jail, but now in federal custody, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 40 months in federal prison for threatening to kill the President of the United States. The sentence is to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MORRIS, 60, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Under NOAA’s Habitat Blueprint, which provides a framework for NOAA to effectively improve habitats for fisheries, marine life, and coastal communities, Habitat Focus Areas are selected to prioritize long-term habitat science and conservation efforts. As a Habitat Focus Area, NOAA and partners will provide conservation planning and development of a watershed management plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Chancellor Paul B. Roth, M.D., M.S., of the UNM Health Sciences Center will join Bernalillo County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins to announce a new collaborative effort, the New Mexico Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) Initiative, that...
