News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Project Safe Childhood.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Employer's name: Cavco Industries Inc., in Seguin, Texas
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy issued a report today showing that threats to tribal energy infrastructure are expected to increase as climate change impacts extreme weather conditions. The department also announced a $6 million grant opportunity to establish clean energy projects and energy efficiency projects on Indian lands that will help support economic opportunity and combat the effects of climate change on tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID MOREL, age 32, of New Orleans, pled guilty today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Boulder City, NV - The Department of the Interior issued a statement of support today for the proactive measures announced by California Governor Edmund G. Brown in an effort to identify solutions to the challenges posed by the Salton Sea in southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today the arrests of 11 members belonging to a drug trafficking organization which distributed heroin and methamphetamine in the Indianapolis area. Further, they ordered acts of violence against those perceived as competitors.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a faulty pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Christian Turner, a/k/a “P", 29, of Bangor pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base, commonly referred to as “crack," and conspiracy to violate the federal gun laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 2, 2015, Jared L. Seats, 25, Belleville, IL, pled guilty to an Indictment charging him with the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon. Seats faces a term of...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), have scheduled a joint hearing for Wednesday, September 9, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Allen Harim Foods LLC, a poultry processing plant located in Harbeson, Del.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), have scheduled a joint hearing for Wednesday, September 9, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
By EPA Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week sent a letter to the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration regarding safety concerns with the blood-thinner Coumadin and the generic version, warfarin.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a media event on top of Folsom Dam to provide an update on the status of the temporary emergency floating pump system currently being constructed. The pump system, which will have a capacity of 30 cubic feet per second, will ensure Reclamation can...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Justin Vazquez, 29, of Lackawanna, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - It is with profound sadness that U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announces that Civil Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Broadwell passed away today after a long battle with cancer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that the United States has formally filed a lawsuit against URS Federal Services, Inc. and its subcontractor Yang Enterprises, Inc. This lawsuit is brought pursuant to the False Claims Act.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week sent a letter to the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration regarding safety concerns with the blood-thinner Coumadin and the generic version, warfarin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: An Ohio man pleaded guilty to lying on his immigration documents by failing to disclose his role in the ethnically motivated murder of a Croatian couple during the war in the former Yugoslavia, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Marlon Miller, Special Agent in Charge of HSI Detroit, which covers Michigan and Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, OR - Thomas William Cornelius, Jr., age 50, of Coos County, Oregon, was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, by Chief U.S. District Judge Anne Aiken to 50 years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and for violent assaults he committed in prison while awaiting trial.
