News from March 2016
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: VALMEYER, Ill. - Federal investigators found blunt force trauma killed a 46-year-old worker when a tree inadvertently hit him during logging operations on a remote 100-acre Mississippi River levy site in Valmeyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today convicted a Chicago marketer of taking illegal payments in exchange for referring elderly patients to a Skokie-based home healthcare company.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal for the U.S. Forest Service with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testifying. A focal point of the hearing was the Forest Service’s inability to actively manage federal forests and prevent increasingly catastrophic wildfires.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area will plan to initiate Spring prescribed fire underburning activities in the East Boundary Project beginning as early as March 25th, 2016. Approximately 200 acres of pine and oak woodland are planned for ignition during the Spring burn window that generally extends...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Frank Eugene Gemignani III was sentenced today to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay $255,452 in restitution for failing to pay over employment taxes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding CMS’s plan to illegally divert as much...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: TUESDAY, MARCH 22. 10: 5 a.m. Full Committee Markup . 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. H.R. 4771 , the “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2016" (Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.): This bill sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims. The ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) will hold a panel discussion entitled, “Conversation on Child Cures" tomorrow, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the attacks in Brussels today...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Computer Hacking Conspiracy Charges Unsealed Against Members of Syrian Electronic Army.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a stunning reversal during today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Tom Wheeler admitted that he wants the FCC to have the ability to regulate broadband rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Prison Sentence within the Range of 20 to 45 Years; Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) will hold a panel discussion entitled, “Conversation on Child Cures" tomorrow, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, woman today admitted embezzling more than $1 million while she worked at a bank in Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Today’s markup of H.R. 4771, the so-called “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act of 2016," or “HEALTH Act," is the eleventh time since 1995 that we have considered legislation intended to deny medical malpractice victims the ability to be made whole and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla.: In a continuing effort to protect nesting Roseate Spoonbills, effective immediately the west side of Palm Key is closed to all access. In order to minimize disturbance and maximize nesting success for the Roseate Spoonbill and other nesting wading birds, a seasonal closure is needed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with Days Inn New Haven, a Connecticut hotel, to resolve allegations that the hotel was not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces that sealed bids to lease 62 parcels of federal agricultural lands, totaling 8,630 acres, are being received until. Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. A public bid opening will be held at the Klamath Basin Area office at 10:00 a.m. the same...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Weather depending, the Natchez Trace Parkway and the US Forest Service plan to conduct a prescribed fire at Hernando de Soto on March 23, 2016. The Hernando de Soto prescribed fire will help reduce hazardous fuel loadings and restore the open woodlands that were historically present. The prescribed fire is located at.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding CMS’s plan to illegally divert as much...
