News from April 2016
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a significant increase in the number of certified organic operations, continuing the trend of double digit growth in the organic sector. According to new data, there are now 21,781 certified organic operations in the United States and 31,160 around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scot Stolkner, 42, of Gray, Maine, Angela Green, 34, of South Portland, Maine, and Jonathan Day, 41, of Portland, pleaded guilty on April 1, 2016 in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, including heroin, fentanyl, and alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone (a-PVP), commonly known as a “bath salt.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following joint statement applauding the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Evenwel v. Abbott to reaffirm the use of total-population data by states to draw state legislative election districts, clarifying the meaning of the “one-person, one-vote" principle...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Lucio Molina Marroquin (38, Mexico), Robison Perez Montez (39, Mexico), and Javier Noyola Ruiz (40, Mexico) guilty of conspiring to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine with the intent distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will be hosting its annual pruning workshop on Friday, May 6 in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Schmidt farmstead, five miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. Turn onto Basch Road and follow the signs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scot Stolkner, 42 -, of Gray, Maine, Angela Green, 34 -, of South Portland, Maine, and Jonathan Day, 41 -, of Portland, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the official launch of GroupGAP, a new certification program that helps small and mid-sized growers and cooperatives meet retailers' on-farm food safety requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys MaryEllen Kresse and Elizabeth R. Moellering, who are handling the case, stated that from October 2013 to January 2014, the defendant and others traveled to Walmart stores and other retail establishments in Western New York and Pennsylvania where they used unauthorized credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, Karen L. Loeffler, and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Caroline D. Ciraolo announced today that an Anchorage plastic surgeon was sentenced to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An Abington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for stealing $65,311 in Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: National Park Service Offers Free Volunteer Docent Training.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - The life of a 39-year-old HVAC installer who fell through a roof skylight ended suddenly because his employer failed to put proper workplace protections in place, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid Pacific Region announces Jeff Rieker as the Deputy Operations Manager for its Central Valley Office in Sacramento.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the Treasury Department’s new guidance on tax inversions...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Webb City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing commercial fireworks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who was convicted at trial last year on all counts of a superseding indictment charging drug trafficking and firearm offenses was sentenced on Thursday to a lengthy federal prison term, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: As the 2016 Major League Baseball (MLB) season begins, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today demanded that chewing tobacco finally be banned from Major League Baseball. In separate letters to MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred, Jr. and MLB Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark, Pallone said that MLB should ban the use of smokeless tobacco in all parts of the ballparks, including on the field and in the dugout.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Cheyenne - U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that forty-five year old Colonial Heights, Virginia, resident Christopher Sean Koegl was sentenced on March 28, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Alan Johnson to serve thirty-six (36) months of probation and to pay approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a prior sex offender in Liberal, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Timothy Curless, 55...
