News from March 2015
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Chairmen John Kline (R-MN), Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Fred Upton (R-MI) responded to today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case. The chairmen, who attended this morning’s oral arguments, are leading the House Republican working group to develop a plan to replace the president’s health ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Who: Aurora Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin, Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Sherrod Brown and Michael Bennet were joined by Representatives Lloyd Doggett, Richard Neal, Rosa DeLauro, and Sander Levin in introducing a series of bills aimed at cutting taxes for the middle class. Specifically,...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA -Biscayne National Park is home to lots of sponges, plankton, octopus and sea stars, but none of them live in a pineapple under the sea. The March installment of Biscayne National Park's Family Fun Fest highlights the real stories of some of the characters in the popular Sponge Bob...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Teresa Jones Tubbs, 45, and Richard Terrell Underwood, 30, both of Marion, Alabama, were sentenced today in federal court for actions which furthered the operation of a drug trafficking conspiracy from 2009 through June of 2014. Tubbs and Underwood pled guilty to the federal charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Linden, New Jersey, man who was a leader in a boys youth organization and a religious education teacher was charged today with possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced legislation Tuesday to exempt Alaska’s national forests from the roadless rule to ensure that affected communities can economically develop renewable energy and other natural resources on the national forests in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: XPLOR Energy SPV-1, Inc. (“XPLOR"), an Oklahoma corporation based in Southlake, Texas, was sentenced today for violating the Clean Water Act. U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced the company to serve three years of probation and pay a $3.1 million monetary penalty. The monetary penalty includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County woman has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, four months of home detention, and ordered to pay restitution to the Social Security Administration in the amount of $11,276.00 on her conviction of theft of government property, involving conversion of Social Security benefits, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Paradise Snowplay Area. With the continuation of mild weather, low snowfall at the Paradise elevation of the mountain, and little snowfall projected for the foreseeable future, park Superintendent Randy King advises that the Paradise snowplay area will not open this season. In more "normal" snow years...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: PACER Case Reference: 14-96. GREAT FALLS - Late Tuesday a federal jury in Great Falls convicted Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz, 30, of Los Angeles, California of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Comptroller General: We are writing to request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the current status of modernizing voting equipment technology in state and local jurisdictions and the potential challenges that can result from the use of outdated voting machines. More...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), joined by 77 other members of the House of Representatives, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today asking...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after attending the oral arguments for the King v. Burwell Supreme Court case...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today issued the following statement on the arrest in Mexico of Zetas leader Omar Trevino Morales...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: FBI Is Asking Anyone Who Knows Of Someone Who May Have Been Victimized To Contact Them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. B Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), assisted by investigators from local, county, state and federal partner agencies, arrested multiple individuals throughout South Jersey and Pennsylvania this morning for illegally selling and possessing 82 firearms in the Camden area over a 12-month period, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Defendant And Co-Plotters Came Within Days Of Bombing A U.K. Shopping Mall.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Donald Thomas, the former payroll director for the Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation, was sentenced to seven years, three months in prison for stealing nearly half a million dollars from the longstanding public institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger, Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard Thornton today announced a federal indictment charging seven members of the Taliban gang and the Young N Thuggin (YNT) gang with conspiring to distribute crack cocaine in the Twin Cities...
