News from February 2017
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of Senate and House health committee leaders today sent colleagues a letter to highlight the importance of immunizations, saying: “Vaccines save lives."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted his involvement in an August 2015 home invasion that left one person dead, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Four defendants including two sober home owners, the clinical director of a substance abuse treatment center, and a sales representative for multiple laboratories pled guilty last week for their participation in a health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the Anti-Doping System."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Bradford Christopher, 36, of Alna, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and heroin. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of Senate and House health committee leaders today sent colleagues a letter to highlight the importance of immunizations, saying: “Vaccines save lives."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to President Trump today urging him to reconsider his decision to remove the Secretary of Energy from the Principals Committee of the National Security...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Ukiah Field Office is inviting public comments on its draft grant applications to the state of California's Off-Highway Motorized Vehicle Recreation Division. The field office is requesting funds to be used for calendar year 2018 for trail maintenance, law enforcement and operations and maintenance of off-highway vehicle areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana return preparer pleaded guilty today to her role in a scheme to file federal tax returns using stolen IDS, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By State Newswire | Feb 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following statement regarding the worsening humanitarian situation in South Sudan...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) John Kelly will travel to Guatemala to meet with President Jimmy Morales. Secretary Kelly will also meet with the Ministers of Government and Foreign Affairs as well as observe the arrival of a DHS repatriation flight at the Guatemalan Repatriation and Reception Facility in Guatemala City.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2017
News Release: Commemorating Black History Month. William Howard Taft National Historic Site will celebrate Black History Month with a presentation of 'The Life and Times of a Buffalo Soldier". Buffalo Soldier is the nickname given to members of African-American cavalry army regiments who served in the American West...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2017
News Release: ST. CHARLES, Mo. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) along with ATF special agents from the Kansas City Field Division were activated Sunday to join the investigation into the fire that destroyed the Bogey Hills Country Club, 1120 Country Club Road, St. Charles, MO. The three-alarm fire occurred in the late night hours of Thursday and burned into early Friday morning. The NRT arrived on the scene this morning.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2017
News Release: Tumacácori National Historical Park protects the ruins of a Spanish colonial mission to the native O’odham people. It is the O’odham residents of this community who formed and laid the bricks of the church, tilled the fields, and wrangled the mission livestock. Their culture and traditions live on today...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2017
News Release: Colorado high school students participated in the 50th annual Colorado High School Bridge Building Contest today to put their bridge building skills to the test. Students crafted their very own, small-scale bridges, and competed to see whose bridges could hold the highest weight loads. Prizes included...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2017
News Release: Currie, NC - Moores Creek National Battlefield will host the annual commemoration of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge this weekend. Events will take place throughout the day on Saturday, February 25th and Sunday, February 26th 2017. The park will be open from 9:00am-5:00pm each day, with anniversary events scheduled from 10:00am-4:00pm. There will be a narrated interpretation of the battle at 1:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: A Houston man was sentenced to 220 months in prison today for sex trafficking of a minor, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas. Deangelo Tate, 27, pleaded guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that Pharmacia LLC (formerly known as Monsanto), Solutia Inc., ExxonMobil Oil Corp. and Cerro Flow Products have agreed, as responsible parties, to clean up six former waste disposal sites that comprise the Sauget ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Haris Qamar, 26, of Burke, Virginia, was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Qamar was also sentenced to 20 years of supervised release to be completed after his released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Joshua Van Haften, 36, of Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support, namely himself as personnel, to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
