News from February 2016
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler concerned with the commission’s reporting on broadband deployment, video competition, and mobile wireless competition. The leaders are concerned that the lack of consistent reporting has “been used to justify commission actions to intervene in seemingly competitive markets."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Outbreaks, Attacks, and Accidents: Combatting Biological Threats."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Nearly two dozen people have been ordered to prison in relation to a drug conspiracy involving heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. All were charged in a 2013 indictment alleging members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang were involved in the drug conspiracy. They had all previously pleaded guilty in the case.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced their intention to hold a hearing in March to examine issues related to the ongoing drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Building on the information the committee has been collecting from EPA and the state of Michigan, the committee will seek to gain a comprehensive understanding of the short-and long-term implications of this crisis to the public health and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that on February 5, 2016, a jury found Lorenzo Ramirez, age 58, of Rochester, New Hampshire, guilty of three counts of unlawful distribution of...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced their intention to hold a hearing in March to examine issues related to the ongoing drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Building on the information the committee has been collecting from EPA and the state of Michigan, the committee will seek to gain a comprehensive understanding of the short-and long-term implications of this crisis to the public health and environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Sherrod Ogletree, 20, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years and a $250,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Outbreaks, Attacks, and Accidents: Combatting Biological Threats."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced their intention to hold a hearing in March to examine issues related to the ongoing drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Building on the information the committee has been collecting from EPA and the state of Michigan, the committee will seek to gain a comprehensive understanding of the short-and long-term implications of this crisis to the public health and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former corrections officer with the Essex County Correctional Facility was convicted today by a federal jury for sexually assaulting a pretrial detainee and then lying about it to investigators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: A letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service has been charged with defrauding the Department of Labor, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's February forecast for the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, the FBI’s Dallas Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas are hosting a Faith-Based Security Summit that will provide faith-based leaders with information to improve security and develop protocols to protect houses of worship.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Rowland Heights doctor was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison for prescribing large amounts of addictive and dangerous drugs to patients with no legitimate need, three of whom died of overdoses. Hsiu Ying “Lisa" Tseng, 46, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: HOHENWALD, TN: On Jan. 14, 2016, a 1994 Jeep was stolen from the Jeff Busby Campground located at mile marker 193 on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Mathiston, MS. On February 4, 2016, U.S. Marshalls out of Oxford MS, contacted Natchez Trace Parkway Rangers stating that two fugitives, now associated...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: The El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign will deploy NOAA’s Gulfstream IV research plane and NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft equipped with specialized sensors, and researchers stationed on Kiritimati (Christmas) Island in the Republic of Kiribati, approximately 1,340...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today solicited input from members of the health care community on policy changes regarding site-neutral payments, including changes made to certain Medicare hospital reimbursements...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of a scheduled March 1 House Natural Resources Committee hearing with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on departmental and programmatic budgeting, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will speak at a Capitol Hill briefing next Wednesday, Feb. 10, on how an important provision...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced their intention to hold a hearing in March to examine issues related to the ongoing drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Building on the information the committee has been collecting from EPA and the state of Michigan, the committee will seek to gain a comprehensive understanding of the short-and long-term implications of this crisis to the public health and environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Neal Dennis, of Sumter, South Carolina, was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in federal court. In September 2015, Dennis pled guilty to an attempt to evade tax, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201. After...
