News from August 2016
By USDA Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Dr. May R. Berenbaum shed light on the relationship between insects and plants during today's 2016 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture. Her talk was presented at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Shawn Preston Admits to Illegally Possessing a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Catherine M. Kosakavich, age 51, of Troy, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 2 years of probation, and ordered to pay $49,766 in restitution, for unlawfully taking veteran benefits intended for her mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after USDA announced plans to purchase surplus cheese for donation to food banks and extend the deadline for farmers to enroll in the dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP). The announcement follows letters from Peterson urging the Department extend the enrollment date and use their purchasing authority to address instability in the dairy industry.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, is hosting a free webinar on "Project Regulatory Considerations" Wednesday, Aug. 31, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Attendees will get an overview of the many permitting and project regulatory issues that need to be addressed when developing tribal energy projects, including.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Luzerne County woman pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Luzerne County during February through October 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to USA Football today seeking answers on the effectiveness of the organization’s Heads Up Football program.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting public site tours in September to four areas in the White River Field Office it is proposing as “OHV Open Areas."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the appointment of U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian for the Northern District of New York as chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). Attorney General Lynch also appointed U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade for the Eastern District of Michigan to serve as vice chair. Both appointments are effective immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stephen A. Monaco, D.P.M., 59, of Broomall PA pleaded guilty to health care fraud today for perpetrating a $5 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and four private victim insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to USA Football today seeking answers on the effectiveness of the organization’s Heads Up Football program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWARD DURANTE, a/k/a “Ted Wise," a/k/a “Efran Eisenberg," a/k/a “Yulia," a/k/a “Ed Simmons," pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck to conspiracy, securities fraud, money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Wallen Olrun, Jr., 30, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to five years in prison, to be followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Olrun pleaded guilty to the charge on March 29, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Shrink rays may exist only in science fiction, but similar effects are at work in the real world at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Studio City man was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for possessing more than 1,400 credit card profiles that had been stolen from consumers who used gas pumps equipped with illegal “skimmers.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in New Haven has returned an indictment charging DARRYL MORRIS, also known as “King Sincere," 32, and NESHAYA DOZIER, 26, both of Bridgeport, with offenses related to the sex trafficking of a minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Cyber Security Division, Department of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and National ...
