News from January 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today announced subcommittee assignments for the 114th Congress. The Committee also approved the Committee rules and oversight plan during the panel’s organizational meeting today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced the ranking members for subcommittees in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. -- Sentencing has been set for May 29, 2015, before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid, in Peoria, for Timothy J. Swanson, the former Chief of Police of Countryside, Ill., who later served as a deputy with the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office. Today, Swanson, 56, of Bourbonnais, Ill....
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a prior sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today to sexually abusing five separate child victims in the Philippines.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 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 committee hearing on Fixing No Child Left Behind: Supporting Teachers and School Leaders. In her opening statement, Murray recognized the challengesteachers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas- Ruben Judas Ruiz-Vazquez, 42, a legal permanent resident from Mexico, has been ordered to prison for conspiracy/importation/possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ruiz-Vazquez pleaded guilty Oct. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Jude Thaddeus Danahy (35, Buffalo, NY) to 14 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a child for sexual activity. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the equipment he had used to commit the offense. Danahy pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - The former head teller at a Lincoln, Ill., bank, Nancy J. Huskins, 63, was sentenced today for embezzling approximately $2 million from the bank over a 17-year period. U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough sentenced Huskins to 45 months (3 years, 9 months) in federal prison and ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Caroline D. Ciraolo, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division, announced that Matthew Libous, an attorney licensed to practice in New York, was found guilty yesterday...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Fifteenth Annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Traditional arts and crafts as well as music will be included as part of the festival throughout the day. The park would like to extend an invitation to all interested crafts persons, musicians, and volunteers to participate in this year's festival.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man was sentenced Tuesday for robbing a bank in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting a Memories of the Obed program on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 2:00 p.m. (EST). This free program will be held inside the Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg, and is part of a series of regular programs that explores the unique river-related memories of local individuals. Each month a different speaker shares their memories of life in the vicinity of the river.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Last week, the Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field released an Environmental Impact Statement for a Master Development Plan within the Bull Mountain Unit near Paonia, Colorado. The deadline to submit public comments regarding the proposed project that includes up to 146 natural...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Brandt Stewart, 29, of Southfield, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The defendant appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald E. Bush at the federal courthouse in Boise. Sentencing is set for April 28, 2015, before Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Ernesto Paramo never knew his shift on August 4 would be his last, leaving his family and friends to grieve his untimely death. The 30-year-old welder clocked in as he had many times before and then went to work at Superior Steel Products Inc. Paramo was in an unsecured basket raised improperly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: A Peruvian man charged with running an operation that threatened and defrauded Spanish-speaking U.S. residents was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison in federal district court in Miami, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Used False Identity to Trick Boy Scouts Into Sending Pornographic Photos Over the Internet.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: PELL CITY, Ala. - Imagine being on the job and suddenly you are horrifically injured. Adding to your pain, you learn later company management knew of the hazards that injured you and did nothing to stop this from happening. This situation became all-too-real for a maintenance worker at WKW Erbsloeh North...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kim M. Costello, 55, of Harrisburg, PA, pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2015, to one count of embezzlement of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. In September 2012, Costello was the impress funds manager for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Harrisburg Resident Office when she embezzled $2,079 in government funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA-Confluence, in cooperation with the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, is pleased to announce the addition of a new exhibit in the lobby of the historic Pearson Headquarters Building located just west of Pearson Air Museum at 1109 E. 5th Street.
