News from July 2015
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the benefits of lifting the current ban on domestic crude oil exports. Today’s hearing before the banking committee reflects the latest in the growing consensus in Congress that our nation’s energy policies need to be updated to reflect the American energy renaissance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva hailed the ivory trafficking standard released this morning by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which comes after months of resistance from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other special interest groups. The NRA and its congressional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Shayne Harrison Smith, age 47, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, to Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence accepted the guilty plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - In unrelated cases, two Abilene, Texas, residents, David Scott Fikani, 61, and Michael Cleo Ivy, 36, each appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost and pleaded guilty to federal child pornography offenses involving prepubescent minors, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9, 2015, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, experience life as it was in the early nineteenth century as the small settlement of Harpers Ferry and the young nation faced a war with the British to defend their newfound freedom. Visit an 1812 military recruitment...
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled, “Iran Nuclear Agreement: The Administration’s Case." At the hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will testify about the recently completed Iran nuclear agreement.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Contract Filling Inc., a contract manufacturer of fragrances and cosmetics.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that clarifies an employer's continuing obligation to make and maintain an accurate record of each recordable injury and illness throughout the five-year period during which the employer is required to keep the records.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two California natives were sentenced in federal court today for oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time in every state but Pennsylvania and Delaware, where the event will take place on September 12. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Natali Arvilla Castro, 28, of Horizon City, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Event will take place from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday, September 26th
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine ISIS’s violence against women. The hearing is entitled, “Women Under ISIS Rule: From Brutality to Recruitment." This hearing is the first in a series the Committee will hold to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning, and I look forward to hearing their testimony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Michael E. Ho, age 69, of Grand Junction, Colorado, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to income tax evasion, United States Attorney John Walsh, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne announced. Judge Arguello is scheduled to sentence Ho on Oct. 28, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Ho was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on Oct. 28, 2014, and was arrested on Nov. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Colombian National Charged in North Dakota with Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise From Canadian Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will display its second Artist-in-Residence program exhibition from August 1 through September 30. The show will feature new works and pieces for sale by Nevada photographer Sean Russell, Colorado artist Susan Thiele and Louisianan musician Michael Futreal, who each completed a two-week residency at Red Rock Canyon this spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has ordered the transfer of Joe Medina, 37, of Rio Rancho, N.M., from Indiana to New Mexico to face a criminal complaint charging him with kidnapping and transporting a minor in interstate commerce for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that the three following defendants were sentenced on July 27, 2015 in United States District Court by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U.S. District Court Judge.
