News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2015 - Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (“OSM") proposed Stream Protection Rule (SPR) released today by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act, legislation that would establish physical activity recommendations for children and adults. The bipartisan legislation would call on the Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 14, 2015, Juan De Dios Mendez Ayala, age 35, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 51 months in prison after Mendez Ayala stipulated to a violation of his supervised release from a prior 2011 conviction and pleaded...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a legislative hearing to review pending U.S. Forest Service and forestry-related bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Javier Vargas-Romo, 50, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on July 16, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Vargas-Romo was arrested in Worland, Wyoming. He received time served, plus 10 days, was ordered to pay a $100.00...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Gate Precast Co. and Trueblue Inc., doing business as Labor Ready
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Quinn Bowers, 34, of Temple, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with providing a firearm to a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Washington - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will hold a hearing on Monday, July 20, 2015, titled, “The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: A Pioneer for School Choice Programs Nationwide." The full witness list is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Following the tragic shooting at Emanuel A.M.E Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is hosting a training summit to share best practices for security at houses of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke on behalf of H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, at the leadership press conference on July 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Three southern Illinois residents were indicted on July 7, 2015, in a one-count indictment, charging conspiracy to distribute 28 or more grams of crack cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Jeffrey A. Kirkman, 29, of Salem, Illinois, was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, a $750 fine and a $300 special assessment. Sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Ryan P. Reynolds, 29, of Wellington, with receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing child sexual abuse images, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at today’s hearing on pending legislation impacting forestry policy in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction netted $36,805 in revenues from the sale of six federal leases, totaling 1,594.88 acres, in North Dakota, on Tuesday...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke on behalf of H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, at the leadership press conference on July 8, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Transformers Construction Services Inc. and Buildtronix LLC, owned by Leanna Richardson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: On April 3, 2013, law enforcement officers executed search warrants at 124 Fulton Street and 305 Perry Street during which they recovered over 300 grams of cocaine base and 700 grams of powered cocaine as well as a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Victor Moreno satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rachaelle Marie Weese, 27, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for her role in extorting more than $1,000,000.00 from a former Bethany College employee, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
