News from December 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, a comprehensive water resources infrastructure bill, in a bipartisan vote of 360-61. The bill is the culmination of work between multiple committees and authorizes port, waterway, and flood protection, and other water resources’ infrastructure across the country. A number of Energy and Commerce Committee priorities are part of the comprehensive bill.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The National Park Service (NPS) announces the release of a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of a new concession contract to provide Interpretive Motor Vehicle Tours Highlighting American Indian Culture in Glacier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Rodolfo Martinez Rodriguez (61, Windermere) to 25 years in federal prison for receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The Court also imposed a life term of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced KENNETH EUGENE MCCOY, 44, of a Smithfield to 183 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: The Big Spring Lodge and Cabins are a beloved feature of the Big Spring area and are a popular destination for visitors to Ozark National Scenic Riverways. They have been operated by private concessioners under contract with the National Park Service (NPS) as an essential visitor service...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Honolulu Police Department today arrested 22 defendants named in six indictments returned by a federal grand jury on Nov. 30, 2016, and December 7, 2016, which remained sealed until today’s arrests. The six...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Drugs were packaged for distribution, more than $100,000 seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Kevin Howard, who admitted that he and his accomplice, Jerry Ware, committed the armed robberies of five 7-Eleven/RaceTrac stores in Dallas in October 2014, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve 300 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and members of the House and Senate will hold an enrollment ceremony for the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act at 11:15 a.m. ET in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that a local man has pled guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, a group of 31 bipartisan members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter requesting information on the Defense Business Board (DBB) Study and the Department’s response to its findings.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: In anticipation of this weekend’s significant snow event, Mount Rainier National Park announces holiday season hours of operation and recreation opportunities available for visitors. Though many park roads are closed to vehicle access for the winter, areas throughout the park remain open for recreation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio yesterday, 27-year-old Michael Martinez was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for online sextortion, cyberstalking and child exploitation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Chris Myers announced that another man accused of participating in a transnational organized crime advance fee "lottery scam" fraud, which bilked at least 80 mostly elderly U.S. residents out of millions of dollars, has been arrested in Jamaica.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted the final defendant in the current federal Short North Posse racketeering and murder case today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two members of a family from Indiana pleaded guilty today to an oxycodone conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Steven Jurick, 57, of Valparaiso, and his mother-in-law, Linda Vannatter, 74, of Hammond, entered their guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the reported nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 24-year-old Denison, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations related to the murder of a man in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Cures Act on Wednesday by a vote of 94 to 5, the bill was sent today to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) before moving to the White House for the president’s signature. The House passed the game-changing medical innovation bill on Nov. 30, by a vote of 392 to 26. Both Speaker Ryan and Senate Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch (R-UT) officially signed the bill at this morning’s Enrollment Ceremony.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery on the House Floor during today’s consideration of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act are enclosed below...
