News from May 2015
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman. I want to welcome all of today’s witnesses and thank them for their testimony. Given recent earthquakes in Nepal and the ensuing catastrophe, this is a very timely and important hearing.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: In an effort to help care for our trails, we invite you to join us for National Trails Day on Saturday, June 6, for a trail and ocean stewardship volunteer project on the Estero Trail. Together with the National Park Service's Trails Crew, Point Reyes National Seashore Association staff and volunteers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - David Nolan Evans, 41, of Garden City, Georgia pled guilty last week before United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for threatening to blow up the State Probation Office in Savannah.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who tried to flee from police by breaking into a nearby home was charged in federal court today with robbing the Commerce Bank in the Brookside area on Saturday morning.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: To assure success occurs this nesting season, a temporary closure from Saturday May 23 through Monday May 25 of a small stretch of the Point Reyes Beach will be enforced. The closure will be established between 0.5 miles north of the North Beach parking lot and 0.35 miles south of the mouth of Abbotts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Georgia man who fraudulently booked airline reservations by pretending to be a flight crew member was sentenced today to six months in federal prison, as well as six months of home detention.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), together with 19 Committee Democrats, introduced H.R. 2410, the Administration’s GROW AMERICA Act, a long-term surface transportation reauthorization bill that provides robust funding...
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: BRIDGETON, Mo. - A 31-year-old assembly technician was working with a battery charger manufacturer for about a month when tragedy struck. In November 2014, the man was testing transformers when he was electrocuted.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, May 20 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Reforming the Workers’ Compensation Program for Federal Employees." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after the World Trade Organization ruled against country of origin labeling.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on May 18, 2015, Daniel Ayala, 24, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he conspired to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and marijuana, and conspired...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Arlene Jeanette Mojardin, 32, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to two years and six months in prison for conspiring to commit bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud, in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in Bakersfield, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. Yellowstone National Park rangers saved a man from New York after he fell approximately 25 feet into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, a 71-year-old man was attempting to take a picture of a sign at...
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed a recommendation from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the Environmental Protection Agency include a safety valve in its Clean Power Plan to protect the reliability of the nation’s power system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Conspiracy, Fraud, and Unlawful Monetary Transactions Involving Three Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Brian Lee Krzeczowski, 42, of Dayton, Tenn., has been convicted and sentenced by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, U.S. District Judge, to serve 292 months in prison followed by a five year term of supervised release. Krzeczowski pleaded guilty in December 2014, to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine-based immigration attorney has been arrested and charged with attempted witness tampering after agreeing to help a Chinese national flee from the United States after the woman had been designated as a “material witness" in a criminal investigation into “birthing houses" operating in Southern California.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Lake Mead National Recreation Area is partnering with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and local law enforcement officers May 18-31as part of the 2015 national Click It or Ticket campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - TIMOTHY JAMES and STARLA DUDENHOEFFER were sentenced to 63 months in prison and 28 months in prison, respectively, involving their distribution of large quantities of methamphetamine in Maries County.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Sanders, Cummings File Bill on Rising Rx Prices
