News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today issued the following statement applauding the Republican Study Committee’s commitment to increased research funding at the National Institutes of Health. The RSC, led...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: 10-year-old Child Disclosed Sexual Abuse Began at Age Seven.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Scheme Resulted in more than $2 Million in Fraudulent Profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Forced Way Into Apartment, Stabbed Victim, and Attempted to Rape Her.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined Angus King (I-Maine) to introduce an amendment to the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would save money and encourage more efficient federal property management by streamlining the process by which the U.S. Army disposes of unused or underutilized properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Three additional Miami-area residents were recently sentenced to prison terms in connection with violations of the Safe Doses Act, pursuant to provisions under Title 18, United States Code, Section 670, which prohibit theft of “pre-retail" medical products. A total of eight defendants have been convicted in connection with a cargo theft scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 8. The committee will discuss the FCC’s proposal to close field offices, review bipartisan legislation to continue support for 9/11 victims and families, investigate a radiological incident at a DOE site, and examine EPA’s burdensome ozone rule.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s announcement that the integrity of four million government employee records had been compromised by a recent data breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Andrea Lynn McCarthy (63, Volusia County) has pleaded guilty to embezzlement from an employee benefit plan. She faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Currently, only extended-release and long-acting opioids have prominently displayed warnings, known as “black box warnings," that indicate the significant potential for abuse, overdose, addiction, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. The Democratic Committee leaders asked that these same warnings be placed on immediate release opioids, which have the same risks and accounted for over 90% of the opioids prescribed in the United States in 2009, according to FDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Seven southern Illinois residents were indicted on June 2, 2015, in a two-count indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -The public is invited to a talk story session about the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park draft general management plan, wilderness study, and environmental impact statement (GMP/WS/EIS) at the Kīlauea Visitor Center, June 10, 2015 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. In addition, a formal wilderness hearing will be held during this meeting to receive comments specific to the wilderness study. Park representatives will answer questions and take comments.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WINDCAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD -Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be offering a variety of interpretive programs this summer. Thirty tours a day will be offered through the world's sixth-longest cave each day beginning at 8:40 a.m. with the last tour entering the cave at 6 p.m. In addition, there will be tours of the Sanson Buffalo Jump and bird walks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Currently, only extended-release and long-acting opioids have prominently displayed warnings, known as “black box warnings," that indicate the significant potential for abuse, overdose, addiction, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. The Democratic Committee leaders asked that these same warnings be placed on immediate release opioids, which have the same risks and accounted for over 90% of the opioids prescribed in the United States in 2009, according to FDA.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is leading a global initiative with industry and other civil aviation authorities to develop a performance-based approach to airworthiness standards for Part 23 general aviation (GA) airplanes. It’s a top priority for the FAA and the agency’s work is the basis ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Keith Renard Simon, 20, who admitted committing several armed robberies of businesses in the Dallas area in November 2013, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 189 months in federal prison, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who handled the case, Stewart was part of an organized shoplifting ring that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise, including breast pumps, whitening strips, cross stitch and needlepoint kits, electric toothbrushes, thumb drives...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Dennis Harold French, 52, of Caseyville, Illinois, pled guilty to charges that he stole disability benefits from the United States Railroad Retirement Board.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 8. The committee will discuss the FCC’s proposal to close field offices, review bipartisan legislation to continue support for 9/11 victims and families, investigate a radiological incident at a DOE site, and examine EPA’s burdensome ozone rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Two residents of Kenner, Louisiana, and four businesses were indicted yesterday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to the Indictment...
