News from October 2016
By DOL Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania masonry company terminated a plant manager - less than two weeks after it hired him - after the manager repeatedly reported air quality and other safety and health hazards to upper management at the company's Middletown plant in 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General David Hunt expressing concerns with the apparent erosion of the Inspector General’s independence by FCC action.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pleads Guilty to Federal Felony in Leak Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Killeen, Texas woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $789,472 in restitution for defrauding the Veterans Health Administration, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Phillip M. Henderson, 51, of Olive Hill, was previously found guilty by a federal jury sitting in Huntington following a five-day jury trial. The jury required only an hour of deliberations before finding Henderson guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Report, which comes nine months after President Obama asked Vice President Biden to lead a national Cancer Moonshot focused on making a decade of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer in five years, with the ultimate goal of ending cancer as we know it...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Donte Powell, a/k/a “Rain," age 29, of Washington, D.C. and Columbia, Maryland, on Oct. 14, 2016, to 11 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Former Sheriff’s Deputy Mark A. Cowden, 51, of Weirton, West Virginia, was convicted by jury today of using excessive force against an arrestee, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, of the Northern District of West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Report, which comes nine months after President Obama asked Vice President Biden to lead a national Cancer Moonshot focused on making a decade of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer in five years, with the ultimate goal of ending cancer as we know it...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The San Luis Valley Field Office in conjunction with the Interagency Fire Management Unit will conduct prescribed burns at Blanca Wetlands this fall. Depending on weather and fuel moisture conditions, the prescribed burn could begin in late October. Approximately 40 acres of BLM land will be treated to improve waterfowl habitat.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pecos District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, at the Carlsbad BLM field Office, 620 East Greene Street, Carlsbad, New Mexico, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:10 p.m. All RAC meetings are open to the public.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Report, which comes nine months after President Obama asked Vice President Biden to lead a national Cancer Moonshot focused on making a decade of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer in five years, with the ultimate goal of ending cancer as we know it...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS -Due to elevated forest fire danger, the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) has placed burn restrictions on all open fires effective immediately. These restrictions correspond with the partial state level burn bans issued by Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Alabama Governor Robert Bentley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: SAN DIEGO - America is presently experiencing an epidemic of addiction, overdose and death due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers. 6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 percent of the population-abuse prescription drugs, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury charged Nelash Mohamed Das, age 24, a citizen of Bangladesh residing in Landover Hills, Maryland, today with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charles Nunez, 47, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Nunez will be sentenced to ten years in prison. He also will be ordered to forfeit $70,000 in drug proceeds and five firearms to the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon issued the administration’s plan for how the cancer moonshot will launch into orbit. Among the action items included in the report are recommendations offered by the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Former Bullitt County, Kentucky, Deputy Sheriff Sentenced to 27 Months in Prison for Civil Rights Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Retired General James E. Cartwright, 67, of Gainesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to making false statements in connection with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. The guilty plea was entered in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on Oct. 17, 2016, Luke Roderick Lowe and Marguarite Jean Keicher, both residents of Sitka, Alaska were sentenced in federal court in Juneau for their role in a drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Ketchikan, Alaska.
