News from February 2016
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed four members and four alternates to serve on the Hass Avocado Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Nov. 1, 2015, and ending on Oct. 31, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: The Big Thicket National Preserve and the Big Thicket Association Science Café program series continues in March with a presentation from West Liberty University researcher Dr. Zachary Loughman on Friday, March 18th, at 6 pm at the Logon Café, Beaumont.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted a British man on federal charges alleging that he travelled to the Coachella Valley in late January in order to engage in illicit sexual conduct with boys who were 10 and 12 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the guilty plea of a Lynchburg woman charged with a variety of fraud charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Recipients of an annual flu shot may be surprised to learn that there is currently no official standard for vaccine storage equipment in clinics, pharmacies, and other health providers' offices - a potential problem, since vaccines need to be kept within strict temperature limits to remain viable.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement of a plan to close Guantanamo Bay prison...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore was one of 186 federal sites selected to receive a 2015 field trip grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), the official charity of America's national parks. The grant will make it possible for all 120 fourth graders from the William Floyd Elementary School in Mastic Beach to visit Fire Island and the William Floyd Estate in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the guilty plea of a Mount Jackson man to a federal cocaine charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing examining the opioid abuse epidemic and its effect on Medicare and the child welfare system...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An indictment unsealed in federal court here Thursday charges one more defendant with kidnapping and killing a Junction City woman, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jonathan Xavier Thorne, 21, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in the theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer. Thorne was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2500 in restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) ongoing efforts to boost opportunity in rural communities, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded six low-interest loans to local governments and community organizations that will spur rural economic development in five states. Secretary Vilsack announced the awards at the Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties during a seminar with the White House Rural Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Imposition of 84-Month Prison Sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to Department of Education (ED) Acting Secretary John King, requesting he reconsider administrative actions in 10 investigations involving senior ED officials. This letter follows an Oversight Committee hearing on Feb. 2, 2016, in which Acting Director King testified.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Meghan E. Heesch (619) 546-9442.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Whitehorse, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A two-count indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City charges 11 leaders and members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS Church) with conspiracy to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The defendants include leaders of the church.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A local resident has been sentenced in federal court to 8 years (96 months) imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction of violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) completed its fire scene investigation located at Veterans Industrial Park, 152 U.S. Route 206, Hillsborough Township. This property is owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and subleased to a private real estate firm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy today released the annual featuring new partners, recent reports and resources, and upcoming priorities identified in the coming year. As part of Better Buildings Initiative, the Better Buildings Alliance is an important peer exchange network providing a platform for commercial...
