News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Paul Hurley Admits to Mail Fraud, Lying to a Federal Grand Jury.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC-Representative Ed Royce, Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Committee’s Ranking Member, will deliver remarks at Noon, Wednesday, October 28 at an event focused on the looting and destruction of cultural antiquities in Syria and Iraq by ISIS terrorists. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will also participate in the event.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 26, 2015 - Today at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that with the current school year underway,, and the number of eligible high-poverty schools utilizing USDA's Community Eligibility Provision...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two men from Michoacán, Mexico faced court action today for their involvement in growing marijuana in national forests, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Gregory Wayne Gibson, age 63, of Cockeysville, Maryland, today to five years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Bennett also ordered that Gibson must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Poultry workers are twice as likely to suffer serious injuries and six times more likely to get sick on the job than other private sector workers, facts that are leading federal safety and health inspectors to act in four Southwestern states to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomic stressors affecting industry workers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) invites comments on a draft practice guide designed to help financial services companies monitor and manage IT hardware and software assets more securely and efficiently.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: In a world of incessant change, some things have to stay the same. One is the set of values for the fundamental physical constants - such as the speed of light or the charge of the electron - that underlie precision measurements in industry, science, and medicine worldwide.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today on the introduction of the bipartisan Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 (H.R. 3819), a bill that funds and extends the authorization for federal highway and transit programs through November 20th, and that extends the deadline for implementation of Positive Train Control technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS COLON, also known as “Camby," 37, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Park Police is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred shortly after 1 am on Sunday, October 25 in a parking lot outside of Proud Mary’s Restaurant at the Fort Washington Marina in Fort Washington, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Nicholas Ethier, 36, of Concord, New Hampshire, appeared in United States District Court today and entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person in violation of federal law, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.‐U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Tatiana Starling, 19, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in connection with her knowing and unlawful possession of a firearm which had been stolen from a residence at 1070 Lake Avenue in Rochester. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Johnny Alexander Quenga, 28, of Fresno, Calif., entered a guilty plea today to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at Air 1, a Fresno Police helicopter, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: DeKalb County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Captain Charged with Encouraging Excessive Force at County Jail and Obstruction of Justice.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is awarding loans and grants that will help more than 1,100 rural small businesses and agricultural producers reduce energy usage and costs in their operations. The funding is for energy efficiency improvements and/or renewable energy systems. USDA is financing projects in every state, as well as in the Virgin Islands, the Western Pacific and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: After careful consideration, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will increase entrance and camping fees beginning Jan. 1, 2016 in order to fund important maintenance and visitor service projects within the park and comply with a nationwide review of national park entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Honduran national appeared in federal court today to face charges that he illegally re-entered the United States after being deported and that he kidnapped a woman in Kansas City, Missouri, and raped her while they traveled to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Trini E. Ross and Kathleen A. Lynch, who handled the case, stated that between winter 2010 and August 2012, the defendant recruited, promoted and profited from the prostitution activities of two minor girls knowing that the girls were under the age of 18. Graham also recruited, promoted and profited from a third victim, a woman in her 20's.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on yesterday’s election of Jimmy Morales as President of Guatemala...
