News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1295, the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Washington - The Peanut Standards Board will meet in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The board will review USDA laboratory approval requirements for aflatoxin testing and the current quality and handling standards for domestic and imported peanuts and determine whether to make a recommendation to the Secretary of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of a racketeering conspiracy involving the Genovese Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra and an online sports betting operation were sentenced today in federal court, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Tiffany Ramos, 26, of Manchester, was arrested on a complaint charging her with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The complaint affidavit alleges that Ms. Ramos met with a confidential source on three separate occasions and sold the confidential source a total...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: PARIS - U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael P. Huerta and French National Space Agency (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to cooperate on research and development related to the safety of private sector orbital space launches ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Erik Scott Brown, 26, of West Frankfort, IL, was indicted on June 2, 2015, on heroin related charges in a two count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two southern Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate and unrelated cases related to child pornography. Both of the indictments were returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Witnesses: Ms. Katherine Archuleta, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, June 21 and Sunday, June 28, Washita Battlefield National Historic Site continues the weekly Summer Lecture Series. Every Sunday at 2:00 p.m. a distinguished scholar or a Park Ranger will present on a multitude of topics in the Visitor Center. Light refreshments will be served after each presentation.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation by sculptor and Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residence K. Gretchen Greene. The free presentation is Monday, June 22, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the park’s community building in West Glacier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief James C. Rovella, today announced that 29 individuals have been charged with federal offenses stemming from the gang-related distribution of heroin and crack cocaine in Hartford’s South End.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A real estate developer and landlord of commercial buildings in Palisades Park, New Jersey, appeared in federal court today to face a criminal complaint charging him with allegedly soliciting a $50,000 bribe payment for a Palisades Park borough official, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) made the following comments at a media availability today, shortly after the House voted in a bipartisan way to pass Trade Promotion Authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jamie Alexander Jones, 28, of Pine Grove, West Virginia, was convicted of oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced new appointments or reappointments of members to the 15-member citizen-based Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds."Our...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after participating in an open hearing, followed by a classified briefing for all House Members, on the recent cyber attack against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that affected more than 4 million federal workers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant Climbed Fence, Ignored Repeated Efforts to Stop.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: The 2016 Financial Services & General Government Appropriations bill is merely a vehicle for accomplishing the most extreme policy priorities of the Republican majority. It would undermine key elements of the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank financial reform, diminish women’s access to legal health...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: I want to address two events from the last several days, both of which have the potential to reshape the way Americans use the Internet for communication and commerce.
