News from January 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: QUINCY, MA -While the historic homes are closed at Adams National Historical Park for the winter, that doesn't mean you can't start planning your upcoming summer travel plans.During the week of February Vacation, the Adams National Historical Park Visitor Center will air videos from National Parks across...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested the nonpartisan watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) role in assisting states transitioning from a state-based information technology...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), are still waiting for answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Subcommittee members posed several dozen questions to CMS Deputy Administrator Vikki Wachino...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management Coeur d’Alene Field Office is proposing improvements for the popular Huckleberry Campground and is seeking public input on the plan. The Field Office will be submitting a grant request at the end of January seeking funding for the enhancements from the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation’s RV Vehicle Program which uses RV registration fees to fund improvements at sites in Idaho.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded House passage of H.R. 3662, Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act, introduced by Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK). The legislation enhances congressional oversight and ensures the administration does not lift sanctions against individuals involved in Iran’s ballistic missiles program or terrorism.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested the nonpartisan watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) role in assisting states transitioning from a state-based information technology...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WEST CHESTER, Pa. - A 30-year-old construction worker returned from a holiday weekend on July 6, 2015, ready to install gutters on new apartment and condominium buildings at 1323 West Chester Pike in West Chester. It was his first day on the job site, and his last as a builder.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Despite a successful program to eliminate cattle fever ticks during the first half of the 20th century, these ticks still manage to cross the Mexican border into Texas. A new vaccine developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) could control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Jelani Omar Johnson, age 34, of Germantown, Maryland today to six years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. Judge Grimm ordered that this sentence be served consecutive to the 51 month sentence Johnson previously received for being a felon in possession of a gun, which was charged in a separate case.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the members of this year's Agricultural Outlook Forum Plenary Panel on "Providing Leadership for Present and Future Generations in the Transformation of Agriculture." This year's panelists have backgrounds in academia, business, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Four Nursing Homes Using Kindred/RehabCare to Pay an Additional $8.225 Million Contract therapy providers RehabCare Group Inc., RehabCare Group East Inc. and their parent, Kindred Healthcare Inc., have agreed to pay $125 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the False Claims ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Second Assumption of Federal Jurisdiction under Historic Tribal Law and Order Act The Department of Justice has granted a request by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe for the United States to assume concurrent criminal jurisdiction on the tribe’s reservation in central Minnesota, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has completed its investigation of special education services at the Leflore County, Mississippi, Juvenile Detention Center and found that the state of Mississippi violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) at the detention center school.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Recruited Straw Buyers to Purchase Homes and Submit Fraudulent Mortgage Applications Five residents of the Detroit, Michigan, area were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in a multi-year mortgage fraud conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer, Richard Thomas Scavone, 49, was indicted on charges of violating the civil rights of A.O., an unnamed victim, by using excessive force during an arrest and charges of obstruction of justice for falsifying a report. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Two elected members of the School Board of Donna, Texas, pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Texas for accepting bribes in connection with a services contract held by the Donna Independent School District (DISD). A private citizen who served as a middleman in the scheme also pleaded guilty, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Atlanta, Georgia, returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, against three residents of an Atlanta suburb for conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and structuring, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Attorney General Loretta Lynch hosted Sue Ellen Allen, Mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee, Mark Luttrell, and Seattle Police Chief Kathy O’Toole for a conversation about criminal justice reform. They were joined by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. Ms. Allen, Mayor Luttrell and Chief ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from November 23 through Dec. 16, 2015.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: On Jan. 11, 2016, U.S. Secretary Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered remarks at the Presidential Town Hall Meeting of the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The AMS Annual Meeting brings together the leading members of nation’s weather, water, and climate communities to discuss timely issues facing those in the weather enterprise.
