News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Orlando residents Dante Askins (18) and Gregory McDonald (18) with carjacking and using a firearm while committing that offense. Each faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison for the carjacking conviction and a mandatory 7-year consecutive term of imprisonment for the firearm conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, October 7, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Improving Federal Spectrum Systems."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, October 7, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Improving Federal Spectrum Systems."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) responded to the Federal District Court of Wyoming decision to uphold the preliminary injunction on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) hydraulic fracturing rule, which stated that, “Congress has not authorized or delegated to the BLM authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing and, under our constitutional structure, it is only through Congressional action that the BLM can acquire this authority.".
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved reconciliation recommendations that together save more than $1 billion. The recommendations would repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund created in the president’s health care law, stop states from receiving federal dollars for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, and invest in Community Health Centers to promote higher quality access health care options for women and men.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved bipartisan legislation authored by committee member Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) that would protect children from exposure to e-liquids containing nicotine (a product used in open system e-cigarettes and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jorge Franco, 37, of Pawtucket, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Newport Police Chief Gary T. Silva.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Cedric Moss, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. Moss pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, on October 9, 2014.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following reports that Russia has commenced airstrikes in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At the request of the offices of the Minister of Defense and the Attorney General of El Salvador, the International Response Team (IRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will arrive in El Salvador on Thursday, Oct. 1 to provide support in the investigation into the Sept. 28 explosion at a military base near San Juan Opico, La Libertad, El Salvador.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a series of special programs at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District and at Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain, on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11. The weekend's programs will focus on the 152nd anniversary of Chattanooga's besiegement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Verona, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing and receiving child pornography. Allen S. Worley, 41, of Verona, was charged in a two-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Upton, Mass. woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for stealing more than $128,000 in Social Security benefits and providing false information in applications for subsidized housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Four members of Teamsters Local 25 were arrested today in connection with attempting to extort a television production company that was filming a reality show in the Boston area in spring 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking an important milestone in the multi-year, multi-Congress effort to modernize the nation’s energy laws, the Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, by a bipartisan vote of _to_. Full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) first unveiled the Architecture of Abundance initiative in July of 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: In 1950, WSM announcer David Cobb first used the term “Music City U.S.A." on air. By then, Nashville was already home to blues, R&B, gospel, jazz, country western music and more. Tennesseans are proud of the fact that Nashville writes and produces the music that speaks to many beating hearts.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week continued the investigation into Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices and its handling of fetal tissue. The leaders sent letters to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the heads of seven...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Dorothy Stegall Barnes, a/k/a “Dorothy Stegall Newman," 56, appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement from a federally insured credit union, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: In 1950, WSM announcer David Cobb first used the term “Music City U.S.A." on air. By then, Nashville was already home to blues, R&B, gospel, jazz, country western music and more. Tennesseans are proud of the fact that Nashville writes and produces the music that speaks to many beating hearts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford resident was convicted yesterday after a two-day jury trial on a federal gun charge. The defendant, MARTEZ DICKSON, 29, was found guilty by a federal jury following a trial before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
