News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Dean L. Baldwin, 38, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 68 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receipt of child pornography. After serving his prison sentence Baldwin will be required to register as a sex offender and complete 5 years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) has been tapped by President-Elect Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has rescheduled its previously postponed hearing entitled Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Implementation for Tuesday, December 6, 2016, at 10 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the nomination of Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - Annual winter closures go into effect Dec. 1 for public areas and trails managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the City of Durango to protect wildlife winter range on public lands. These closures remain in place through Apr. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARYANNE STEPHENS, 68, of Ireland, formerly of Rocky Hill, Conn., pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of theft of public money for stealing Social Security retirement benefits that had been deposited into her deceased mother-in-law’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Today, new Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) policies developed by the Cleveland Division of Police in cooperation with the Consent Decree Monitoring Team, the Department of Justice, the Mental Health Response Advisory Committee which work with the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed in federal court charging a Summit County man for illegally possessing firearms and nearly 80 pounds of cocaine, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office, the FBI, and a coalition of law enforcement agencies and community groups will host the 8th Annual Cyber Crime Prevention Symposium tomorrow. The day-long seminar for more than 400 educators, parents, and middle and high school students is being held at the California Endowment in Los Angeles.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Wisconsin dairy producers are increasingly adopting a practice that makes economic and environmental sense: They plant oats in early to mid-August and either allow cattle to graze them through late November or harvest the crop in early November for later use. The strategy allows production of an additional forage crop before winter. The oats also "scavenge" excess nitrogen from the soil, and the plant residues enrich the soil.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will be hosting a public scoping meeting at the Community Colleges of Spokane Colville Campus, 985 North Elm Street, on December 20th at 6:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jesus Armendariz was sentenced today to 15 years in prison based on his conviction on charges of racketeering conspiracy, distribution of crystal methamphetamine, and use of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent...
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee event...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and a graduate of The Ohio State University, reacted to the incident at Ohio State earlier today in which eight individuals were injured, and one assailant killed, in an attack on the Columbus, Ohio campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Joshua Francisco Miranda, age 29, of Waldorf, Maryland, admitted committing two bank robberies in March 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS), an information sharing tool for first ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: California, Illinois and Texas Sites to Join National Network ELGIN, Texas, Nov. 28, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Lillian Salerno today announced three new public-private partnerships that will create economic opportunities in Elgin, Texas; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: A Windermere, Florida, man pleaded guilty today to illegally making political contributions in the names of others to a presidential candidate’s primary campaign committee, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II of the District of Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Employee Caused Minnesota Company $25 Million in Losses A Greene County, New York, woman pleaded guilty today to stealing at least $3.1 million from Cargill Inc. (Cargill) over 10 years and causing at least $25 million in losses. The woman was an accounting manager at Cargill, the country’s largest privately held corporation, based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced that today in federal court, James Ralph Craddock, 71, of Manns Harbor, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic Striped Bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina in 2010.
