News from June 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Acting Superintendent Sheri Barry announced today that a vessel speed limit of 13 knots through the water will be implemented in lower Glacier Bay, lower Whidbey Passage, Fingers Bay, Berg Bay and around Willoughby Island to protect humpback whales. During the past...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed today charging a Scranton man with receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Detyens Shipyards Inc. Inspection site: 1670 Dry Dock Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405. Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration performed a comprehensive inspection on Dec. 2, 2014, as part of its Regional Emphasis Program on Maritime...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of nine people have been taken into custody following the return of eight separate, unrelated indictments, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Robert Elder, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lampe, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography and for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Jeffrey...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Children’s Recovery from Trauma Act, legislation that would help ensure our nation’s health care system is better prepared to provide support to children and families following traumatic events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed today charging Hessam B. Lahoud, 54, of Westlake, with subscribing to a false federal income tax return, said United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced key legislation to modernize and reform the Federal Communications Commission. H.R. 2583, the FCC Process Reform Act, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Co-op City Agrees to Enhance Accessibility, Pay Civil Penalties and Establish an Aggrieved Persons Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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) issued the following statement today on the joint Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Seventeen people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a $165,000 conspiracy to pass fraudulent checks and then withdrew the money, sometimes at a Cleveland casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a three-count indictment charging Paul J. Monteiro, a/k/a “Peezy," 29, of Providence, with allegedly transporting a 14-year-old Rhode Island girl to New Jersey for the purpose of engaging in commercial sexual activity. It is also alleged that Monteiro enticed the minor female to engage in sexually explicit conduct which was video recorded.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today applauded committee passage of the Audit & Appeal Fairness, Integrity, and Reforms in Medicare (AFIRM) Act of 2015, an original bill to improve the Medicare audit and appeals process. The legislation was reported out of the Committee by a voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup of the Audit & Appeal Fairness, Integrity, and Reforms in Medicare (AFIRM) Act of 2015, an original bill to improve the Medicare audit and appeals process.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today with a bipartisan group of senators introduced S. 1500, the Sensible Environmental Protection Act to eliminate redundant federal permitting requirements for pesticide applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Debra Arno, 56, formerly of Amherst, NY, and Lauren Frye, 55, of Kenmore, NY, with conspiracy to commit murder for hire. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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) issued the following statement today on the joint Department...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Ensuring College Affordability. In her opening remarks, Murray highlighted how the high costs...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Watchdogs Needed: Top Government Investigator Positions Left Unfilled for Years." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: Roy Zipp has been selected as the new Operations Manager for Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, located on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. He replaces Craig Holmquist, who retired in December 2014. He begins his new assignment immediately.
