News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: ST. LOUIS - DEA St. Louis and federal, state, and local counterparts today announced 51 drug and weapons arrests aimed at the most violent heroin traffickers and criminal organizations in the St. Louis region. The 10-month effort was the first significant action of the St. Louis Heroin Initiative, a collection of various agencies working closely to coordinate and attack the heroin epidemic at multiple levels.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Lockheed Martin, the global security and aerospace company, estimates that widely used software testing methods developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can trim test planning and design costs by up to 20 percent, while greatly improving the thoroughness of product and system testing during development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) today announced a criminal justice reform initiative. Over the coming months, the House Judiciary Committee, which has primary jurisdiction over the U.S. Criminal Code, will take a step-by-step approach ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: A twice convicted felon who possessed an assortment of ammunition was sentenced yesterday to more than six years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the Senate’s passage of trade promotion authority (TPA), House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been continuing his push to get TPA passed by the House and enacted into law. Earlier today, he spoke with America’s Newsroom’s Martha MacCallum to reiterate why TPA is so...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: The 2016 Defense Appropriations bill would shatter caps on defense spending by adding $38 billion in base costs to off-budget war accounts, creating a massive hole in next year’s budget, destabilizing long-term planning, and allowing domestic priorities to wither on the vine. By making a new budget agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A former youth minister in Garland, Texas, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal child enticement offense, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Copper Center, AK -On June 9, a lightning strike 22 miles southwest of the Alaska Highway along the west side of the Chisana River ignited a small wildfire.The 15 acre fire is actively burning in black spruce and tundra. It does not pose a threat to structures or resources. Fire management staff will perform an aerial reconnaissance flight today to map and view the fire.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) pressed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to provide their Committees with complete and un-redacted documentations regarding the administration’s efforts to change decade-old rules governing 501c(4) tax-exempt organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sarunn N. Phan, 28, of Providence, was sentenced today to 45 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of federal supervised release on a previous conviction on a federal firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: In testimonies and responses to direct questions from Congress, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and uniformed leaders of our Armed Forces have made clear the risks of relying on Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) to fund core and enduring defense costs. This approach would create a massive $38...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: On Tuesday afternoon, June 9, Grand Teton National Park rangers conducted a rescue operation via helicopter for an injured climber who fell on a wet, rock slab just above the Meadows area of Garnet Canyon in the heart of the Teton Range. Charlie Emerson, 31, of Marietta, Georgia was solo climbing a 4th...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks today received testimony on two bills authored and introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the full committee.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), today held a hearing to explore concerns with regulations implementing federal wage and hour standards. Members discussed how the complex, burdensome, and outdated regulatory structure of the Fair Labor Standards Act is impacting workplaces and creating uncertainty for both employees and employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Indictment Alleges Two Murders, Two Attempted Murders and Three Drug Overdose Deaths Caused by Gang; New Indictment Brings to 118 Total Alleged BGF Members and Associates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MANUEL OMAR MINJAREZ, age 27, of Houma, pled guilty today to charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and having methamphetamine mailed to him from a Fresno, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Greene County, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in assisting co-conspirators to avoid paying $585,000 they owed in federal taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service has completed a feasibility study of the Sewall-Belmont House in Washington, D.C., a site important to the women's rights movement.The study, which analyzes different management options to address the site's financial and preservation challenges, was presented to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JOHNNY TYRONE HOPKINS, 44,of Farmville, North Carolina, to 60 months in prison and 5 years of supervised released for conspiracy to distribute and possession...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Employer Name: Venture Chemicals Inc. Location: Seagraves, Texas. Date Inspection Initiated and What Prompted the Inspection: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened the inspection in December 2014 after an employee was fatally caught in a mixer/auger bin. Investigation Findings: OSHA...
