News from February 2017
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. offered the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's announcement that he is seeking a stay on some of the FCC's broadband privacy protections...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon review of a leaked copy of the House Republican’s healthcare proposal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Noisy Bird Sing-Along." Listen to a symphony of birdcalls and find out how you can sound like them too! Visitors of all ages will find themselves calling out “Who Cooks for You" just like the barred owl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with robbing a branch of the Mansfield Bank in West Bridgewater on Nov. 22, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon review of a leaked copy of the House Republican’s healthcare proposal...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. offered the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's announcement that he is seeking a stay on some of the FCC's broadband privacy protections...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD- The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) will temporarily close the Olmsted Island Trail and Great Falls Overlook on or about March 1, 2017 for repairs that will improve visitor safety and better protect park resources. Construction on the bridges is anticipated to last 90-120 days with completion and re-opening in late June 2017. Completion of construction may be impacted by weather conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Air Force Master Sergeant Cody Boone Covert, 43, of Fort Walton Beach, was sentenced late yesterday to 23 months in prison and $126,300 in restitution for conspiracy (to commit theft of honest services and wire fraud) and bribery by a public official. Co-conspirator...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced today that Leeland Eisenberg, of Concord, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Michael Michalak (54) to 36 years and 8 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the transportation of child pornography and distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered Michalak to forfeit two cellphones and a computer that had been used in furtherance of the commission of the offenses. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Last year, upwards of 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas were delivered to customers in the United States, and when it changed hands, nearly every cubic foot was measured using gas flowmeters. The accuracy of those meters has enormous commercial importance, and NIST has a long-standing research program to improve flowmeter calibration. The scope of that program has now literally expanded in the form of a newly arrived test bed known informally as the Big Blue Ball.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) on Thursday, requesting their assistance in questioning all federal agencies within their jurisdiction about their plans to address the urgent public health threat of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Law Enforcement Seized Kilograms of Narcotics, Firearms, and Cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A man from Texas was sentenced Wednesday to over 11 years in prison for conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Shreveport area with another Texas man, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) on Thursday, requesting their assistance in questioning all federal agencies within their jurisdiction about their plans to address the urgent public health threat of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Marquis Lamambus Polite, also known as “Yogi," of Mobile, was sentenced on Feb. 15, 2016, for his participation in the distribution of methamphetamine ice. Testimony at the sentencing hearing established that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - William Jaquett Barker, 31, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Barker was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene in April of 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on new information about House Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and undermine the health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: A Youngstown convenience store owner was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for nearly $2.8 million in food stamp fraud, including paying cash for food stamps and accepting them for prohibited items, including alcohol and tobacco, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and USDA-OIG Special Agent in Charge Anthony V. Mohatt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Keenan Davis, 40, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was found guilty, after a 4-day jury trial. Davis was convicted of 2 counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
