News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Kids, many who live thousands of miles from Hawai‘i, will have the opportunity to explore Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park tomorrow, July 29 via the new online “Camp Google " experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the unsealing of an eleven-count Indictment yesterday charging LEROY SMITH, age 31, JAMIE JONES, age 32, and KENNETH MIXON, age 31, all of New Orleans East, with violations of federal drug and firearms laws. All of the defendants face the lead charge of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Scranton has charged ten men and one woman with conspiring to distribute cocaine, cocaine base (crack) and heroin in Monroe County.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released the submissions responding to the Committee’s bipartisan initiative to explore cost effective solutions to improve health outcomes for Medicare patients living with one or more chronic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Roybal, 35, the former leader of an Albuquerque-based drug trafficking organization, was sentenced this morning in federal court to 168 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges. Roybal also is required to pay a $184,080.00 money judgment under the terms of his plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - 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. 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 DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to an administration proposal to extend Pell Grants to certain incarcerated individuals...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a roundtable entitled, “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule: Potential Impacts on Manufacturing and Jobs." The roundtable discussion builds off the committee’s ongoing work to highlight the potentially devastating...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Teaming with a medical equipment company, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first calibration system for positron emission tomography (PET) scanners directly tied to national measurement standards. Better calibrations of the machines potentially can increase the accuracy of their diagnostic images by several times, according to NIST scientists.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing continuing its review of the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP). The hearing comes on the heels of recent reports regarding the shipments of live anthrax from a Department of Defense (DOD) laboratory.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: The Going-to-the-Sun Road is planned to be open to Logan Pass from the west side of Glacier National Park tomorrow, Wednesday, July 29. Visitors should expect delays and congestion along the road.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Good morning and welcome. In today’s hearing, we will examine the decision to approve the State Department’s plan to construct the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center at Fort Pickett Army National Guard Base in Blackstone, Virginia. We would like to learn why this half-billion-dollar project was...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Due to expected House votes, the opening statements for the full committee markup scheduled to begin this afternoon have been postponed. The full committee will meet tomorrow, July 29, at 10 AM in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building for opening statements and consideration of the following six bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Jefferson City, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced that U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Alvaro De La Torre-(42, Dayton, TX) to 10 years and five months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He pleaded guilty on April 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Edgardo Batiz Medina, 33, a resident of Gautier and a native of Puerto Rico, pled guilty today before Chief District Judge Louis Guirola to aggravated ID theft in a case involving the sale of birth certificates and social security cards, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Republic, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy that distributed thousands of pounds of marijuana in southwest Missouri.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing continuing its review of the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP). The hearing comes on the heels of recent reports regarding the shipments of live anthrax from a Department of Defense (DOD) laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - The state of Ohio showed their support and dedication in fighting the prescription pill epidemic from Fall 2010 through September 2014 by disposing of over 185,000 pounds of unwanted and unused prescription drugs in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Avoiding Duplication: An Examination of the State Department’s Proposal to Construct a New Diplomatic Security Training Facility." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
