News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services demanding answers regarding the federal select agent program. This letter builds on the ongoing bipartisan investigation surrounding the shipments of live anthrax from a Department of Defense laboratory, Dugway Proving Ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Wednesday, July 8. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee Markup. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. H.R. 2329 , the “Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act". H.R. 2604 , the “Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2015". Thursday, July 9. 10: 0 a.m. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Texas man was sentenced in federal court today for traveling to Missouri to engage in sex with two minor sisters whose “father" (actually an undercover police...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: A man and woman who created a false letter to be provided to a federal court pled guilty to obstruction of justice in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman caught selling heroin last year was sentenced today to six months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Sunshine Renae Midkiff, 35, previously pleaded guilty in April 2015 to distributing heroin. Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Bassam Arif Al Zarkani, 33, of Dumas, Texas, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson and pleaded guilty to one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Harvey, who is handling the case, stated that in the late night hours on May 31, 2006, a male patron at Spenders Bar in Rochester, NY, was assaulted with a baseball bat. At the time, the bar was equipped with interior surveillance cameras that recorded the area where...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Four new postage stamps featuring the water lilies of Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens are springing up in homes and businesses across the country. Issued this year by the U.S. Postal Service, each stamp depicts a midsummer close-up of one of four classic garden water lilies cultivated at Kenilworth’s gardens.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites children in grades 4 -8 to participate in the park's sixth annual summer day camp, entitled A Call to Arms: Civil War Day Camp. This year the park will conduct two camps, each for different grade levels. The first camp, to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - In response to public feedback, the Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is hosting an additional public scoping meeting in Colorado Springs to solicit comments on the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. The open-house style meeting will be held on July 14 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Westside Community Center, 1628 West Bijou St., Co Springs 80904.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY SABATO, 57, of West Haven, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to trafficking crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Omar Alarcon Fuentes, 37, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced today after having been convicted after a one-day jury trial in December 2014 of one count of distributing 50 grams or more of pure...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) groups’ #Fly Safe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on how to prevent Loss of Control (LOC) accidents this flying season.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: A former employee of Iowa Falls State Bank in Iowa Falls, Iowa, who embezzled $144,181.47 from the bank, was sentenced on July 2, 2015, to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Mansfield man was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with posting on-line threats to the President of the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A 21-year law enforcement veteran of the Salvadoran National Civil Police was arrested June 29 for his alleged involvement in attempting to smuggle two individuals to the United States. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents from the HSI Assistant Attaché Office in El Salvador assisted police officers from the Salvadoran National Civil Police in making the arrest.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: On June 30, 2015, the Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana awarded a $120 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to Johnson Controls Government Solutions, a firm that helps the federal government maximize building performance in technology, energy, and security.
By State Newswire | Jul 5, 2015
News Release: Senator Says Administration Appears to Be Rushing Toward Bad Deal so Congress Will Have Less Time to Review Agreement
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2015
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. July 5, 2015 - Since lightning storms came through the parks starting July 1, the parks have eight new lightning-caused fires. Afternoon monsoonal weather has caused additional lightning strikes with new fires being discovered everyday by park firefighters and staff. Lightning-caused fires can take days or weeks to detect because vegetation has to dry out enough to create smoke or visible flames after the storm passes over.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 4, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Last evening, Friday, July 3, a park ranger responded to a report of a hiker in distress on the North Kaibab Trail. When the ranger arrived on scene, bystanders had already attempted resuscitation efforts without success.
