News from May 2015
By US DOT Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Pilots will be able to file flight plans and receive the latest weather information on-line, effective immediately, under two new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contracts.
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2015
Release: U.S. organic companies exhibit at the SIAL Paris 2014 trade show.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TRUMAINE HEARST, also known as “Man," 21, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 336 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his involvement in the October 2012 murder of Dawayne Cobb in Bridgeport.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a Committee hearing on oversight of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In her opening statement, Murray called for Congress to give the EEOC...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: MINERAL, CA - May 22 marks the 100thanniversary of the Lassen Peak eruption and Lassen Volcanic National Park is ready to celebrate. Join Lassen Volcanic staff and scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey for special events celebrating a series of Lassen Peak eruptions that brought Lassen to the world...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced the owner of Health Way Pharmacy, Salim Yusufov, age 43, of Reisterstown, Maryland, today to 12 months home confinement as part of four years’ probation, for a conspiracy to traffic over $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes, health care fraud, and receipt and delivery of misbranded drugs. Judge Quarles also ordered Yusufov to forfeit $200,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Sisavang Phothisat, a 39 year old, Theodore resident, was sentenced today to 108 months incarceration for possession of a Taurus revolver after being convicted of attempted murder in Fresno County, California and for his role as a drug dealer in a methamphetamine conspiracy where more than 100 grams of methamphetamine was seized.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: The 28th Annual Nebraska Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (LECC) Criminal Justice and County Attorney’s Conference is being held in Kearney, Nebraska May 20-22, 2015 with more than 300 local, state, and federal law enforcement officials and prosecutors attending.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Chatmon, 36, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by making false claims for income tax refunds before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: The harmful algal bloom season peaks annually in late summer.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an interview with C-SPAN, Wisconsin’s First District Congressman and House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan made the case for Congress passing trade promotion authority explaining how it empowers the legislative branch in trade agreements. Ryan also argued that the U.S. must provide a counterweight to China and take the lead in writing the rules of the global economy. Excerpts of Chairman Ryan’s responses follow.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Krista Federer, 46, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for distributing a controlled substance. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Federer to serve three years of supervised release, and to pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Kelly Gerald Crosby, 32, from Logan County, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to mailing threatening communications. On September 8, 2014, Crosby was incarcerated at the Southwestern Regional Jail...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Pier 1 Imports endangers workers again with blocked exits, stacked boxes
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement after the introduction of legislation to authorize the highway and transit programs through the end of July.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva and Rep. Alan Lowenthal, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, sent a letter today to U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze requesting detailed information on tailings dam safety on public lands and highlighting the recent environmental disaster from a collapsed dam in British Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: A felon who possessed a firearm and ammunition was sentenced May 14, 2015 to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Michael Nash, 40, of Gary, Indiana was sentenced today for conspiracy to defraud the United States in respect to filing false federal tax returns claims and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Settlement resolves allegations that UPS supplied federal customers with inaccurate delivery times and “exception codes" to deprive the customers of the ability to request “Guaranteed Service Refunds" for late overnight deliveries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Upon the joint application of the government and defense counsel, U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton today issued a continuance order in the case of U.S. v. William E. Baroni Jr. and Bridget Anne Kelly.
