News from March 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of wearable technology - Internet-connected devices or apparel physically worn by the user. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of the Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANTWINE SMITH, age 39, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SALIH KAYA, 55, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing food stamp fraud at his Hartford grocery store.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of wearable technology - Internet-connected devices or apparel physically worn by the user. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of the Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rule to limit mercury, arsenic, and other toxic pollution released from coal-fired power plants.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In recognition of Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) had a full schedule Wednesday morning talking 21st Century Cures. Upton first addressed approximately 150 advocates as part of Rare Disease Legislative Advocates’ Lobby Day Breakfast. Upton later made the case for 21st Century Cures while participating in a panel discussion hosted by the Milken Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Tuscaloosa County man to 14 years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Acting Secretary Stan Stabler.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of wearable technology - Internet-connected devices or apparel physically worn by the user. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of the Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In recognition of Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) had a full schedule Wednesday morning talking 21st Century Cures. Upton first addressed approximately 150 advocates as part of Rare Disease Legislative Advocates’ Lobby Day Breakfast. Upton later made the case for 21st Century Cures while participating in a panel discussion hosted by the Milken Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: Former Jail Administrator from Stone County, Arkansas, Pleads Guilty to Instructing Inmates to Assault Another Prisoner.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: A Centralia man, who pled guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison on March 2, 2016, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Darryll W. Kaufman, 25, of Centralia, Illinois...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: Over the past three decades, the United States has entered into 14 trade agreements with 20 countries. While each of these trade pacts has provided significant economic benefits to American job creators, workers, farmers, innovators, and consumers, there is widespread concern that some of our international trading partners have not fully and faithfully implemented and complied with all of their trade obligations.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: FALLS CITY, Neb. - A truck driver fired for refusing to drive a company vehicle pulled from service by the Iowa Department of Transportation is owed $55,000 in back wages, damages and compensation from his employer, the finding of a U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the murder of Berta Caceres, Coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jose Maria Agustin, 34, a native and citizen of Mexico, most recently of Elba, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with re-entry after deportation subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction and failure to register as a sex offender. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Luzerne County man was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, to 14 years in prison for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Luzerne County during February through October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Harrisburg man indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on firearm charges has pleaded guilty today to being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 10 states have been selected to take part in SNAP to Skills, a first-of-its-kind, peer-to-peer effort to help state agencies design improved employment and training programs for adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in order to help them find employment and ultimately move off the SNAP program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota announced today that Michael John Harris, 33, pleaded guilty to making telephonic threats to two clinics that provide reproductive health services in Minneapolis.
