News from October 2015
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to discuss the importance of Head Start and how to improve the program for current and future generations. Members learned from child development and education experts how quality programs can make a difference for low-income children and what reforms Congress should consider as it works to reauthorize the Head Start Act.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -Becka Lee, (Eastern Kentucky University, B.A. in Anthropology), will help prepare New River Gorge National River for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016. She is one of 70 energetic, young Centennial Volunteer Ambassador interns recently selected to spend the next year connecting local communities to parks through volunteer group service opportunities.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tomorrow, the House will consider H.R. 538 -“The Native American Energy Act." Sponsored by Indian, Insular & Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Don Young (R-AK), the legislation addresses the federal government’s overregulation of Indian lands, which has hindered Indian tribes...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Serenity Hospice and Palliative Care, a hospice operating in Phoenix, Ariz., has agreed to pay $2.2 million to resolve civil allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false bills to Medicare for hospice services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - James Thomas has been arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering arising from an alleged advance fee fraud scheme involving $1.7 million. Thomas was indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Miguel Amaris-Caviedes, 37, of Costa Rica, pleaded guilty today to two counts of knowingly conducting financial transactions that involved purported drug proceeds. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm was sentenced on October 7, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former web producer for KTXL FOX40, a Tribune Company-owned television station in Sacramento, was convicted today for his role in a conspiracy to hack into the servers of the Los Angeles Times and the Tribune Company, following an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and FBI Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Eric D. Chavis, 23, of Columbus, with conspiracy to produce and production of child pornography in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has entered into a Pathfinder agreement with CACI International Inc. to evaluate how the company’s technology can help detect Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the vicinity of airports.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park is hosting a special event in commemoration of Lancelot Jones Day. It takes place from 11:00 a.m. to Noon on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center. State and county representatives and commissioners are joining park staff to speak about the importance of the Jones family to the park and the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field...
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a hearing to examine U.S. international food aid programs and ways to make those programs more efficient and effective. The hearing is entitled “Reforming Food Aid: Desperate Need to do Better.".
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Annapolis, MD -In collaboration with federal, state, local government and non-profit partners, the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office recently published the Potomac River Segment Plan. This plan aims to serve park managers, visitors and residents through recreational and stewardship activities along the 140-mile tidal Potomac River where three national trails overlap.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on improving the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings. ARPA-E’s Single-pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Designs...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform, issued the following statement applauding the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee’s unanimous passage of the Fair Chance Act, a bill Cummings introduced in the House on a bipartisan basis to give the formerly incarcerated a fairer chance at employment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth Horner and Kimberly Horner have each been sentenced to one year, six months in federal prison following a jury’s guilty verdict in February 2015, on tax fraud charges stemming from the defendants skimming money from their towing business.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Endicott Clay Products, Endicott, Nebraska
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL D. MASE, 32, of Sherman, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Left to Right: NETL’s Paul Jablonski, Paul Turner, Ed Argetsinger, and Jeffrey Hansen.
