News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Bureau of Reclamation advises the public to take extreme precautions due to rapidly changing ice conditions at all reservoirs in North Dakota and South Dakota.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: Employer name: SNS Lawn & Landscape Services Inc., doing business as The Ground Guys, 716 Catherine St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: An experienced leader has returned on a temporary basis to serve as the acting state director of the Montana/Dakotas State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).Aden Seidlitz, a Chester, Mont., native and Montana Tech graduate, is filling in for Montana/Dakotas State Director Jamie Connell. Connell...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators recently completed an area-wide pest management program targeting the Asian tiger mosquito (ATM), Aedes albopictus, which can transmit viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Valentino Anderson, 50, of Rutland, was sentenced yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to distribute...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is announcing that its FY 2016 Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) is open. The "Phase I" FFO will close on April 14, 2016. SBIR is a competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Josue Ortiz, 34, of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s visit to Washington for the 15th anniversary of Plan Colombia...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: A chance discovery by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists means that a striking type of pink crape myrtle could soon be gracing lawns and gardens in South Florida. Commonly called Pride-of-India or queen's crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia speciose is native to India and Southeast Asia and has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Four defendants were arrested on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016, on charges related to running a marijuana ring between Tucson, Ariz. and Columbus, Ohio. Investigators have seized more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana and more than $1.2 million in cash in connection with the investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment for the implementation of an accelerated process for annual water transfers and/or exchanges, pursuant to Section 3405(a) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act for Contract Years 2016 through 2020 (March 1, 2016, to Feb. 28, 2021).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined the path forward for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying the Obama Administration must complete many more steps, as required by bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), before the trade agreement can be...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued a subpoena to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Secretary Beth Cobert for documents relating to last year’s data breach which compromised the personally identifiable information of 21.5 million Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Yotam Israeli,23, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute marijuana in the Madison area, primarily in and around the University of Wisconsin campus. pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 3, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: Employer name: DDP Roofing Services Inc., at 20 Conchester Road in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: An avalanche awareness workshop will be held this Saturday, February 6 in Port Angeles. Sponsored by the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club and Olympic National Park, the workshop will be presented by expert backcountry skier and ski patroller Gary Holmquist.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing titled: “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security." Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: We’ve been paying a lot of attention to what’s happening in Europe. And I was at the World Economic Forum, I guess a week and a half ago, and they’re paying a lot of attention to us. I think the presidential race here and some of the comments that have been made have caused people in Europe to certainly focus right now on. where U.S. foreign policy is going to go.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: “We should not be holding this markup today. It is essentially an attempted end-run around the rule-making process.
