News from June 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after voting against Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation in the House of Representatives.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the latest in a series of river basin studies that examine the growing imbalance between available supply, increasing needs and projected demand due to climate change in the western United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of JAMES SIGANOS, 50, to one count of tax evasion. SIGANOS was charged on May 26, 2015, by felony information, of evading corporate income taxes. He pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn. A sentencing date has not yet been determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Series of Incidents Took Place Between March and June of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jackie Madore, 45, of Rockland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base, commonly referred to as “crack.".
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week on the U.S. Coast Guard’s and the federal government’s efforts to confront transnational drug smuggling and stem the flow of illegal drugs to the United States through maritime routes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, David Wright aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 25, of Everett, Mass., and Nicholas Rovinski aka Nuh Amriki aka Nuh al Andalusi, 24, of Warwick, Rhode Island, were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: A search is underway for a climber missing from a team of three on Liberty Ridge on the north flank of Mount Rainier. He went missing yesterday, June 11th, during their descent from Liberty Cap in high winds and low visibility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell sentenced Shawn Joseph Eisenstein, age 29, of Owings Mills, Maryland, today to 11 years in prison followed by supervised release for life, for possession of child pornography. Eisenstein was previously convicted of distribution of child pornography...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park. To enable wildlife managers to gather information and ensure that raptors can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Shu K. Chen, 38, from the People’s Republic of China, entered pleas of guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Chen faces up to thirty years in prison for the conspiracy and a consecutive two year sentence for the Aggravated Identity Theft charge, plus a $250,000 fine and up to three years supervised release and mandatory restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Friday, June 12, 2015, 3:30 pm - Two of the climbers in the Liberty Ridge incident, Derek Gavelis and Mathew Wiech, are now at Camp Schurman with park climbing rangers where they will be debriefed. Both are tired, but in good physical condition. The third climber, Kyle Bufis, 25, remains missing. A second air reconnaissance flight is currently underway.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: The FAA has posted an update to the advisory circular for training airport rescue and firefighting employees that provides guidance to airport operators on how to meet the FAA’s requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Maria Colvard, age 49, of Chambersburg, was convicted late yesterday after a four-day jury trial on two counts of extortion and one count of aiding the impersonation of an employee of the United...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Two Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Islamic State.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Marblemount, WA - Firefighters have been working hard throughout the week slowing the Thunder Creek fire located within the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. The fire is 40% contained and remains at 103 acres.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 15.
