News from January 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced that the Committee will hold its organizational meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. At this meeting, the Committee will consider the committee rules package and oversight plan. Subcommittee assignments will also be announced at the organizational meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - John Faherty, 56, of Hopedale, Mass. pleaded guilty to an information charging him with filing a false federal income tax return. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV scheduled sentencing for April 17, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning (TCWP) recently purchased two tracts of land within the boundaries of the Obed Wild and Scenic River using a grant from the State of Tennessee. One 90-acre tract is located on the Obed River above the mouth of Daddys Creek. The second 24-acre tract is located on Clear Creek below Barnett Bridge. Both tracts adjoin other Obed park lands and contain prime examples of the remarkable resources that the park was established to preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Ashley Robinson Fuqua, was sentenced today to serve 3 years probation, and to pay $20, 962.32 and a $100.00 SA. This case came to the attention of the Mobile Police Department when it was reported that new...
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 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 on President Obama’s upcoming trip to India...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Superintendent Dave Hallac announced today that National Park Service (NPS) will begin work next week at the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center Day Use Boat Ramps.Murphy Environment &Land Management, LLC, has been contracted to replace the day use boat ramps.The improvement work begins Jan. 26, 2015 and is expected to be completed by May 2015. The concrete boat ramps and finger piers will be replaced and will include one accessible floating dock.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that on Jan. 20, 2015 in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JONATHAN BAYSDEN, 25, of Jacksonville, North Carolina to a total of 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Kotzebue, Alaska man was sentenced in Federal Court in Anchorage on two counts of child sexual exploitation crimes. Culum Campbell was convicted of receipt and possession of child pornography. Campbell was using a peer to peer network to traffic child pornography, and had both distributed and received videos of children being sexually exploited.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration continues to allow expanded commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations by granting two more regulatory exemptions, bringing the total to 16 grants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Newton Mullins Obtained Prescription Drugs By Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Anthony Edward Jones, 30, formerly of Crete, Nebraska, was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2015, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 90 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receiving child pornography. Jones was also ordered to pay...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: As cancer diagnostic tools, a new class of imagers - which combines positron-emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MR or MRI) - has shown promise in the few years since these hybrid machines have been commercially available. But to thoroughly assess PET-MR scanners' clinical performance, researchers will need to calibrate the machines in a way that is traceable to a national standard.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) delivered the following remarks at conference on corporate inversions hosted by the Brookings Institution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Matthew Vincent Deparasis, 30, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 156 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for maintaining drug-involved premises and on firearm charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: TPA: Empowering Congress to Set America’s Trade Agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 23, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Grand Canyon National Park will begin replacing a portion of the Trans-Canyon Pipeline at Phantom Ranch beginning on Monday, Jan. 26,2015. Ortega Plumbing and Heating of Albuquerque, NM has been awarded a contract for replacement of this section of the pipeline. The project area...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement on the December jobs report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GROSS WILLIAMS, age 49, and his wife, KATHLEEN WILLIAMS, age 46, both of New Orleans, were charged yesterday in a five-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, the Federal Gun Control Act, conspiracy to launder money and obstruction of justice.
