News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: I support H.R. 372, the “Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017," which repeals the antitrust exemption in the McCarran-Ferguson Act for the health insurance business.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the National Park Service (NPS) announced today that its suppression efforts have led to a dramatic decline in southern pine beetle infestations at Fire Island National Seashore. Southern pine beetle infestations were found in fewer than 20 pine trees this year, down from the more than 1,500 trees infested in 2014 and 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: FEB 28 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Teddy Stuart Lopez, Jr., also known as “Chico" and “Junior," 20, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are increasing flows from Lucky Peak Dam because of above-normal winter precipitation in the Boise River drainage. Flows through the City of Boise will increase from the current flow of 6,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to approximately 6,500...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: A Broward County School District employee has been charged with obstructing a drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lebanon, Mo., man has been sentenced for being a felon in possession of firearms following a nine-hour-long standoff with law enforcement officers while he was in the attic space of a friend’s residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Two defendants who pleaded guilty to their roles in a pill mill operation they were involved in during parts of 2013-2014 have been sentenced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold 12 public information workshops in April and May 2017 on proposed airspace improvements in the Denver Metro Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, and House Democrats used Tuesday’s Subcommittee’s Members’ Day hearing to speak out strongly against cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and to oppose cuts to the arts and humanities.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: FEB. 28, 2017 - The 2015 Annual Wholesale Trade Survey Report provides detailed industry measures of sales inventories, operational expenses and purchases for wholesale trade activities. Companies provide data on dollar value of annual sales, end-of-year inventories and methods of inventory valuation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with assaulting members of a rival gang.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: FEB. 28, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2015 National Content Test Race and Ethnicity Analysis Report, which presents findings to the Census Bureau director and executive staff on the optimal design elements of the race/ethnicity question(s) as preparations continue for the 2020 Census.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Anthony Graham has served as an intern for the Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board (NSSAB) since late 2016. The NSSAB tasked him with communicating the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) programs and history to students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 28, 2017, Richard Lee Hauser, M.D., 67, formerly of the Grinnell, Iowa, area was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to two months in federal prison for two counts of health care fraud, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Dec. 28, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging Amalia López-Santiago, a former treasurer of the American Postal Workers Union (“APWU") Local 1070 (the “Union"), with embezzlement of funds of said labor organization in an amount...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Feb. 27, 2017, Jesus Rivera Cruz of Omaha, Nebraska, age 41, pled guilty to one (1) count of filing a false tax return before the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief United States District Court Judge. An investigation conducted by the Internal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TEDDY STUART LOPEZ, JR., also known as “Chico" and “Junior," 20, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - An opportunity to learn about mountain lions and fishers, among the most elusive wildlife species on the North Coast, will be offered in a free lecture at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 19, at the Redwood Playhouse in Garberville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after a one-day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. found Christopher Geanakos, 30, of Rancho Cordova, guilty of one count of receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
