News from November 2015
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the deadline for multi-state partners to submit proposals for the 2015 Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP). Proposals are due via email to participating state departments of agriculture by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, Dec. 15, 2015. (See the SCMP website for the full list of participating states and email addresses.).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Four U.S. Weather Bureau personnel awarded Purple Hearts for serve our nation and safeguard our troops during World War II (Luther Brady (top left - Photo: University of Georgia yearbook); Lester Fodor (top right - Photo courtesy: Fodor Family); U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Muskeget on March 30, 1942. (top center - Photo: U.S. Navy); George Kubach (bottom left - Photo courtesy of Kubach Family); Edward Weber (bottom right - Photo courtesy of Weber Family).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s approval of two of her bills to expand the use of clean, renewable hydropower to generate affordable power for Alaska communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christina Scaringi, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Region of HUD’s Office of Inspector General, William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and James V. Buthorn, Acting Inspector...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “The Impact of ISIS on the Homeland and Refugee Resettlement." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: 73.8 Pounds Of Meth Were Intended For Distribution In Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Montez Lesha Bishop, 39, of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge William H. Steele to 166 months imprisonment for Hobbs Act robbery and discharging a gun during the robbery. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juan Hernandez, 46, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his child exploitation conviction. Hernandez was ordered to serve ten years in federal prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release. Hernandez will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - As paramedics rescued a construction worker trapped under dirt from a trench collapse, his co-worker and friend, 24-year-old Isidro Martinez, was not as fortunate. Martinez, a husband and father, lost his life in the unprotected trench.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Thomas Allen Vaughn (33, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida) with attempted enticement of a child for sexual activity. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Vaughn that the United States intends to forfeit any property that he used during the commission of the offense.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement following the Senate confirmation of D.C. Superior Court Judges William Nooter and Steven Wellner, both of whom have been waiting since 2013 to be confirmed.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s approval of S. 556, the Sportsmen’s Act of 2015, which she introduced earlier this year. The bill would establish a new national policy for federal agencies to expand and enhance sportsmen’s opportunities and make “open unless closed" the standard for access to federal lands throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: The charges arose out of the armed bank robberies of TD Bank in Portland on Oct. 3, 2015 and of Bangor Savings Bank (“BSB") in Portland on Oct. 12, 2015. In both instances, the defendant used a firearm to rob the banks. He absconded with $2,846 from TD Bank and with $14,189 from BSB. Following the BSB robbery, he was apprehended by a Portland Police officer in a nearby parking area and found to be in possession of a silver Harrington and Richardson revolver.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the filing of criminal charges against Stephanie Ann Ware, age 26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, charging her with aiding and abetting the robbery of two banks by acting as a getaway driver.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the owners and manager of three Michigan apartment complexes - Parkside East Apartments, in East Lansing, Michigan, Holt Manor Apartments in Holt, Michigan, and Kelly Manor Apartments in Owosso, Michigan - for discriminating against families with children.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department announced new targeted guidance on corporate tax inversions...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Tyrone Anthony Jones, 32, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine.
