News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Pearsall woman and a Lubbock man have both been ordered to prison following their convictions of one count of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. Manuel Salas, 47, pleaded guilty Dec. 14, 2015, while Joyce Jenkins, 49, entered her plea in November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Feng Yang Chen, 40, Liang Liang Guo, 30, and Cheng Qi Li, 27, all of Flushing, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with violating the Travel Act and conspiracy to violate the Travel Act. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years of probation, the first six-months of which are to be served on home detention, a $3.000 fine, and ordered to forfeit $200,000 on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute schedule II controlled substances and obtaining prescriptions by fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) today released the following statements after the House passed the Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016 (S. 192), a bill that strengthens support services for seniors and their caregivers...
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed the Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act (H.R. 4314), authored by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY). Today’s bipartisan legislation will help improve border security and information sharing between governments at a time when terrorists are working to move across borders without detection.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory for the Point Reyes National Seashore from 3 pm today through 9 pm tomorrow.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Bryson LaPaul Blair, 30, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Diego Alejandro Alcantar-Armenta, 29, of Elko, Nevada, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Alcantar-Armenta to forfeit $8,200 in drug proceeds. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 11, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - A specialized fire investigation team from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating a fire at a historic mission in Fort Washakie that served as a school and boarding house for Shoshone girls more than a century ago.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Employers name: Kenneth Snider Inc., Hilltop Drive, Princeton, West Virginia
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Khoa Tan Huynh, owner of the Script Life Pharmacy in Clovis has agreed to pay the United States $200,000 to settle civil claims for statutory violations occurring at the pharmacy, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Attorney Bennett L. Kight was arraigned on a federal indictment today charging him with mail fraud while serving as a trustee and manager for assets, investments, and real estate owned by one of his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Monday, March 21, 2016, the Hon. Gustavo Gelpí sentenced Aníbal Pagan-Romero, a general practitioner with a clinic in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, to a term of imprisonment of 120 months and a term of supervised release of five (5) years in the criminal case for mail fraud prosecuted...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Anna Guasco will discuss changes in the ways Anacapa Island has been perceived and represented throughout history during the April From Shore to Sea lecture.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
