News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Individual photons of light now can be detected far more efficiently using a device patented by a team including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists have overcome longstanding limitations with one of the most commonly used type of single-photon detectors. Their invention could allow higher rates of transmission of encrypted electronic information and improved detection of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and David Shepard, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that a federal jury found James Edward Watson, Jr., 30, of...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's El Paso and Lubbock Area Offices, Permian Basin Service, Transmission, Exploration and Production Safety Network
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Douglas Allen, 58, of Burlington, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of bank robbery. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Allen be detained pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: The Battle Mountain District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is selling firewood cutting permits, for personal use, at three different locations. These locations are the BLM’s Battle Mountain District Office (Battle Mountain, NV), the Tonopah Field Office (Tonopah, NV), and the Inyo National Forest’s White Mountain Public Lands Information Center (Bishop, CA).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Thomas Hammond, age 47, of Cleburne, Texas, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison followed by ten (10) years of supervised release on one count of Transportation of a Minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Robert William Barton (43, Zephyrhills) guilty of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Christopher Bohnenkamp, 41, formerly of Kuna, Idaho, was indicted on Sept. 13, 2016, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise for wire fraud and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. On Sept. 15, 2016, Bohnenkamp surrendered to an arrest warrant in Buffalo, New York and was taken into custody. An initial appearance is set before the United States Magistrate Court in Buffalo at 12 p.m. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) Special Agent in Charge William Kalb announced that NANCY FRYE, 50, and DOUGLAS MARTIN, 52, both of Bristol, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged involvement in an IRS impersonation scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, as part of National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week -- designated by the Department of Justice as the week of September 19-23, 2016 -- Maine students from high schools throughout the state...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Lamar Sowell, 26, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment with five counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and four counts of using and carrying a firearm in those robberies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), along with 22 of their colleagues, introduced a Senate resolution calling for a public option in the health insurance market.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and 18 Senators sent a letter commending the U.S. Department...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on Thursday titled, “The State of Health Insurance Markets " to hear from state insurance commissioners and to examine the health insurance markets since the implementation of Obamacare. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN ANATE, also known as “Pills" and “Che Pills," 26, most recently of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Two physicians from a family medicine clinic in Mexico have been ordered to prison for their role in a scheme to submit false and fraudulent insurance claims, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement that Argentina and the United Kingdom would seek closer cooperation with regard to the Falkland Islands (referred to as the Islas Malvinas by Argentina)...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: PRICE, UTAH- The BLM Price Field Office is hosting a unique volunteer and learning opportunity to celebrate National Public Lands Day on Sept. 24, 2016 at the historic Christensen Ranch at Cottonwood Glen, in the Nine Mile Canyon area.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Commerce Department ’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released today the draft Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, a self-assessment tool to help organizations better understand the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts.
