News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Christopher R. Jansen, age 35, of Selby, South Dakota, appeared before United States District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Nov. 17, 2015, and pled guilty to a Superseding Indictment charging him with Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Distribution of Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) and Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul (R-TX) will convene a joint hearing entitled “The Rise of Radicalism: Growing Terrorist Sanctuaries and the Threat to the U.S. Homelands.".
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Park rangers are working in partnership with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and conducting an investigation regarding an illegal take of a moose within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WATERBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HATEM SALEM, 46, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 35-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction related to the trafficking of 4.99 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in Brownsville convicted Derrick Hargrove on all four counts as charged following a three-day trial in March 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management rescheduled the public meeting featuring the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. line upgrade project overview on Monday, Nov. 23, at 5 p.m. at the Dove Creek High School (525 N. Main St.). This public meeting features an overview of Tri-State’s proposal and the BLM’s analysis of an upgrade to the existing transmission line between Montrose and Dove Creek, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: “Madam Attorney General, welcome to the House Judiciary Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 34-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced to prison following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Shane Lucas Winn pleaded guilty Aug. 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: “In the 110th Congress, when I was Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee reported legislation that would have granted a limited antitrust exemption for independent pharmacies to allow them to collectively bargain as to the terms and conditions of reimbursements from pharmacy benefit managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Melvin Lee Gregory, 32, of Oroville, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to aggravated identity theft and violation the conditions of supervised release, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today the publication of a statewide Drug Overdose Assessment for Pennsylvania. The report, entitled “Analysis of Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2014," is the first comprehensive assessment of deaths caused by drugs for the commonwealth.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding Secretary Kerry’s remark that there was a “rationale" for the January terror attack that killed 12 at the offices of a French satirical newspaper...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Jeffrey C. Brown, 36, of Collinsville, Illinois, was sentenced to a total of thirty-six months in federal prison for the offenses of Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in a scheme to obtain money and property through the use of unauthorized access devices through the commission of identity theft, the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Peter Apicelli, 31, of Campton, N.H., was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of manufacturing marijuana, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico imposed a sentence of 12 months and a day imprisonment, 2 years supervised release, and a mandatory special assessment of $100.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: A surprisingly high proportion of foods consumed in the United States contain some solid fats and added sugars, according to an analysis of U.S. food-consumption data. The study, which was based on an evaluation of food-intake data from a large sampling of the U.S. population, was led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) nutritionist Lisa Jahns.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), released the following statement after the House passed H. Res. 524, a bipartisan resolution they introduced, which condemns the recent terror attacks in Paris that claimed 129 lives...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks at a Committee hearing on the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to serve as FDA Commissioner. In her remarks Murray discussed challenges that lay ahead for the FDA, and called for continued progress to strengthen the FDA and improve the health and wellbeing of patients and families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: A 61-count indictment was filed charging Marcus Butler, of Houston, with making multiple false statements to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of Labor while defrauding the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and several of his former employees, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced that.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sought input from state and local stakeholders on developing a path forward to restoring responsible forest management practices needed to get control of our nation’s growing wildfire problem.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Employer name: The Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1201 Broad Rock Blvd. in Richmond, Virginia.
