News from May 2016
By EPA Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the FCC’s decision to limit joint sales agreements...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Piscataway, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring with employees of Bayway Lumber in Linden, New Jersey, to use phony invoices to defraud the Plainfield Board of Education, resulting in losses of $19,927, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - Federal safety and health investigators found that employees of an Ohio gun shop may face life-long health damage because their employer continues to expose them to lead hazards and has failed to establish a respiratory protection program.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A few weeks ago, I was saddened to learn that this will be Chairman Crenshaw’s last term in Congress, and his last year in charge of this subcommittee, so let me begin by thanking you for the partnership we have had on this subcommittee over the years. Although we don’t agree...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Tremaine J. Barnett, 32, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann for possession with intent to distribute Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and Colonel William J. Bryant, Director of the Arkansas State Police, announced today that Amber Johnson, age 30, of Wynne, Arkansas, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for sex trafficking of children.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Justice Reyes allegedly sold a firearm to an ATF agent two weeks after being ordered to home confinement by a state court judge.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - Anyone interested in public lands in Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Butte and Tehama counties has an opportunity to share with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) their values regarding these lands, in a public meeting. The meeting will be held Tuesday, June 14, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the BLM Arcata Field Office, 1695 Heindon Road, in Arcata.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Release Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: A wispy wasp may pack a potent punch in the fight against the emerald ash borer (EAB), an insect pest that causes catastrophic ash tree losses in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, A Citizen Of Romania, Agreed To Provide Military-Grade Weapons To Be Used To Shoot Down American Helicopters And Aircraft In Colombia.
By EPA Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke this afternoon in favor of the House amendment to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. The legislation, scheduled for a House vote this afternoon, will move important provisions of H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, which passed the House last December, one step closer to providing an energy future based on abundance and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cecilia Pocasangre, 41, a legal permanent resident from El Salvador, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge arising out of a 7.5-pound seizure of methamphetamine at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke this afternoon in favor of the House amendment to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. The legislation, scheduled for a House vote this afternoon, will move important provisions of H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, which passed the House last December, one step closer to providing an energy future based on abundance and innovation.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Guadalupe Mountains National Park is proud to announce its new partnership with Western National Parks Association (WNPA). A nonprofit educational organization that currently supports 71 national park partners across the western region of the United States. A new expanded bookstore...
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, June 14-15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The NACOSH Injury and Illness Prevention Program Work Group will meet June 14 and the full committee will meet June 15.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of TIMOTHY PAUL OWENS, 55, to 18 months in federal prison for obstructing an examination by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Federal Reserve Board). OWENS was indicted on Dec. 15, 2014, and pleaded guilty on July 30, 2015. He was sentenced today before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: BOISE -The Department of the Interior has announced a second year of funding for the Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program. The National Park Service is either the lead agency or a collaborator on projects that total nearly $2 million in funding of the $10 million allocated for the program. National...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a bill directing presidential nominees to release recent tax returns in order to give the public honest insights into the candidate’s actions and values.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved 14 bills and the nomination of Jay Lerner to be inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
