News from November 2015
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, November 18th, at 2:30 p.m., a House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold its first meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the first meeting, members of the conference committee are expected to deliver opening statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 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 was arrested last week after being tackled by a security guard was indicted by a federal grand jury today for armed bank robbery and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former regional manager for the company that makes Glock firearms was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to take bribes and kickbacks, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The man’s wife was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for her part in the scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced that March Bell has been named Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the subcommittee. Bell served as Senior Counsel for Trafficking in Persons in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will reopen portions of the Alligator Hill Trail on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. The trail has been impassable since a severe storm blew down thousands of trees on Aug. 2, 2015. National Park Service crews and National Lakeshore volunteers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Albuquerque, New Mexico, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to transporting a 13-year-old victim from Henry County, Mo., across state lines to engage in illicit...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on the agriculture industry’s role in combating global hunger.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing titled, “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations." The hearing builds upon previous discussions as part of the 21st Century Cures process, especially the feedback received...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a 15-count indictment charging Emmanuel Antwi, a Ghanaian national, with credit card fraud and bank fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Matthew Victor Hernandez, 27, of Bishop, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: “Thank you, Commissioners, for the opportunity to testify before you all today. I believe that the ITC does vital work and plays an invaluable role in the development and understanding of U.S. trade policy. As you all know, our trade agreements have grown in complexity over the years. Of course our agreements...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing titled, “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations." The hearing builds upon previous discussions as part of the 21st Century Cures process, especially the feedback received...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick to a federal heroin trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark Wood, 56, of Bangor pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute bath salts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Jeffrey J. Justice, 32, of Chester Township, with receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and with possessing child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after Russian authorities confirmed that a bomb was responsible for downing a Russian airliner over Egypt on Oct. 31, killing 224 people.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen business executive pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud banks and mortgage companies by engaging in sham “short" sales of residential properties in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Rockaway, New Jersey, husband and wife who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company today admitted receiving more than $4.3 million from Medicare and private insurance companies for diagnostic testing and reports that were never interpreted by a licensed physician, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-Like a good story? Tellabration! celebrates tales, a worldwide storytelling event for people of all ages. This year a FREE local event will be hosted at New River Gorge National River's Canyon Rim Visitor Center in Lansing, West Virginia onSaturday, November 21from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Anton R. Courts, 40, of Charleston, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to distribution of both crack and heroin, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Courts admitted to selling quantities of cocaine base, also known as “crack," and heroin...
