News from October 2015
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: BROOKSVILLE, Fla., Oct. 20, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today marked the transfer of more than 3,800 acres of land and facilities that comprised the former USDA Subtropical Agricultural and Research Station to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (Florida A&M). This is one of the largest single land transfers to one of the 19 historically black land-grant universities established under the Second Morrill Act of 1890.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Black & Veatch Construction Inc., Power Plant Management Services LLC, Mosser Construction Company, AZCO Inc., Go, Gradel Co., Evaptech Inc. and local trade unions
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - After a week-long trial, a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Boston convicted an Arlington man on drug and firearm charges on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future (H.Res.348 ) on the House floor...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new alliance between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. was recently established to protect the safety and health of workers in the scrap recycling industry, as well as promote understanding of worker rights and employer responsibilities under the OSH Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Monday sentenced Kenrick Christopher, 48, of Grenada, to 23 months in prison, and Jeard Shillingford, 33, of Dominica, to 18 months in prison for encouraging and inducing illegal immigrants to enter the United States for commercial or financial gain, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also sentenced both men to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to five years of probation for conspiring to traffic turtle species designated as threatened under New Jersey state law, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Common Carrier Regulation of the Internet: Investment Impacts."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian woman, Sarah M. Nixon, 47, of Montreal, on a charge of international parental kidnapping, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. The indictment, returned today, alleges that Nixon took her minor-aged child from the United States in July 2015 with the intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of another person’s parental rights.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Common Carrier Regulation of the Internet: Investment Impacts."
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Oct. 20, 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Farhan Ali Abu Siam, 42, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for defrauding the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the food stamp program. The defendant pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic in SNAP benefits and commit wire fraud; wire fraud; and aiding and abetting trafficking in SNAP benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted against the motion to proceed to S.2146, the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act. The vote failed, 54-45. His statement below...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The news continues to get worse for the president’s health care law. Amidst the news of low enrollment estimates, exchange failures, and collapse of one-third of Obamacare co-ops, the Washington Examiner editorialized that the problems have only just begun. The editors write, “The important thing is...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that ROBERT EDWARD LEE, age 41 and NICOLAS TRINIDAD CARMONA, age 29, both of Martinez, California, were sentenced in federal court today for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(D) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on its previous work examining the EPA’s new cap and trade rules, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, examining the legal issues relating to the EPA’s carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations for new and existing power plants.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed legislation supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future. The legislation, introduced by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), passed the Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this month. U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the legislation’s passage...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The 2015 elk reduction program begins Saturday, October 24 in Grand Teton National Park. Authorized through the park's enabling legislation of 1950, the program allows for the proper management and conservation of the Jackson Elk Herd.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Keith Joseph Banning, 59, of Magalia, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on its previous work examining the EPA’s new cap and trade rules, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, examining the legal issues relating to the EPA’s carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations for new and existing power plants.
