News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: DETROIT- Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced that five new cities will join the Violence Reduction Network (VRN), a comprehensive approach to reducing violent crime in communities around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man who was arrested in Kansas with 15 pounds of heroin was sentenced Monday to 46 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - New River Gorge National River is preparing to welcome all regional 4thgrade students to the Grandview area as part of the White House’s new Every Kid in a Park program. Originally slated to reach 1,000 4thgrade students, the program now has 1,078 registered from Summers, Raleigh...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement regarding Shell’s decision to suspend operations in Alaska’s offshore waters:
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that L-3 Communications Corporation, Vertex Aerospace LLC and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems LP (collectively L-3) have agreed to pay $4.63 million to resolve allegations that they inflated labor hours for time spent by independent contractors...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WOOD RIVER, Ill. - A 55-year-old carman fell more than 12 feet to the ground after his aerial lift collapsed. The worker had been standing on an elevated platform to install a canopy on a railcar, but the platform could not support his weight.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm. At the time of his arrest, law enforcement officers discovered illegal drugs and several firearms at this residence, including a firearm hidden under a pillow on a bed where an infant lay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - James Earl Chapman, Jr., a doctor from Macon, Georgia, has been convicted after a two-week jury trial on 49 counts of drug trafficking for prescribing and dispensing controlled narcotics at a Cartersville, Georgia, “pill mill" pain clinic that served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Aliens smuggled into Champlain, NY and Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Leader of Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Prison for Interstate Prostitution Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas E. Gregory, who is handling the case, stated that according to complaint, on July 29, 2015, officers with the Rochester Police Department responded to 1070 Lake Avenue in Rochester for a report of a burglary occurring at the residence. The resident of the premises informed officers that intruders entered the house and stole a gun safe that contained three firearms including a 39mm rifle, a.40 caliber rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $169,000. Madison store: $103,000. West Milford store: $66,000. Quote: "Dollar General's negligence in protecting employees from these hazards despite the number of times they have been brought to the company's attention is alarming," said Prentice Cline, OSHA's area director in Charleston.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Today, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Budget denounced the budget reconciliation language expected to come before their committees in the coming days. Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Corn Island Shipyard Inc., Grandview, Indiana
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the Republican majority’s decision to form a new subcommittee, within the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce Committee, to continue to investigate unsubstantiated claims made against Planned Parenthood...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the Republican majority’s decision to form a new subcommittee, within the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce Committee, to continue to investigate unsubstantiated claims made against Planned Parenthood...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Defendant's Crimes Followed Escape from D.C. Youth Facility.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce House passage of H.R. 2051, the Agriculture Reauthorizations Act of 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1624, the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, authored by Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY). This bipartisan, commonsense legislation will help protect employees from cancelled health...
