News from July 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: On Thursday, July 7 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will consider the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 5587). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ricardo Mejia, 25, a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to robbing a Manchester branch of the Northway Savings Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3844 (Rep. Jody Hice, R-GA), the “Bureau of Land Management Foundation Act," by voice vote. H.R. 3844 is part of a three-bill package developed by the Committee on Natural Resources to comprehensively address the existing funding, technical and legal impediments to reclaim abandoned mine lands (AML).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bourbon, Mo., man who was a federal fugitive for more than a year, was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - James G. Maloney has been charged with committing and conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud against the United States and Georgia Tech. James J. Acree and James D. Fraley, III were also charged with participating in the conspiracy.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Employer's name: L&M Bag and Supply Company Inc., doing business as L&M Supply Company Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence today, Patrick E. Churchville, 47, of Barrington, R.I., owner and president of ClearPath Wealth Management, LLC, formerly located in Providence and Barrington, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges related to...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 4582 (Rep. Jeff Denham, R-CA), the “Save Our Salmon Act," by voice vote. The legislation will exclude striped bass from the fish doubling requirement and other provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, eliminating the ongoing federal conflict between protecting striped bass and endangered salmon in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- United States Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni (center in attached picture); Rear Adm. Vincent Atkins, Commander, Fourteenth Coast Guard District (far left); Resident Agent-in-Charge Donna Kahakui of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) criminal enforcement program (second from right)...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Come to Salt Pond Visitor Center on Monday, July 18 at 6 PM for tips on how to be "shark smart" this summer.This one-hour presentation will be especially relevant to members of the surfing, SUP, and kayaking communities who would like tips on lowering their risk of having a shark encounter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tarsem Singh, 61, a businessman from Fairfax, Va., was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for conspiring to commit fraud on the United States by illegally obtaining over $6 million in contracts that were meant for small, disadvantaged businesses.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: On July 5, 2016, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National Park Service (NPS) is beginning the public planning process for the preparation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) for Phases I and Phase II of a Winter Habitat and Floodplain Enhancement Project on Lagunitas...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 497,506 visitors to White Sands National Monument in 2015 spent $25,729,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 387 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $29,352,100. "White Sands...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: An information was filed charging Dimitar Trampevski, 28, of Toledo, with making a false entry or failure to make an entry in records by a federal firearms dealer, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is raising concerns that a National Academy of Medicine (NAM) panel set to begin studying prescription opioid abuse in the United States has been insufficiently vetted for potential financial ties to opioid manufacturers.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Lookout Mountain, TN: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a series of special, 30 minute programs on Saturday, July 16 and on Sunday, July 17 at Cravens House, a structure dating to the Reconstruction period, on Lookout Mountain. These programs will explore how white Chattanoogans, Freedmen, and northern emigrants rebuilt the scenic city during Reconstruction. There are no admission fees for the programs at Cravens House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: (Tuesday, July 5, 2016) - Ahead of Wednesday’s public meeting of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) conference committee, Democratic conferees are urging their Republican counterparts to support the addition of $920 million fully paid for by bipartisan offsets for states to provide critical resources to respond to the nation’s opioid and heroin epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ricardo Mejia, 25, a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to robbing a Manchester branch of the Northway Savings Bank.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The state of Connecticut announced today that its CO-OP would shutter, forcing its approximately 40,000 participants to find new coverage. The announcement makes 14 out of the original 23 Obamacare CO-OPs that have closed its doors at a total cost to taxpayers of nearly $1.5 billion. The closures come at an increasingly rapid rate - 11 of the CO-OPs have collapsed since last September.
