News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The president’s health care law has come to be defined as full of #BrokenPromises and #RateShock. From skyrocketing premiums and fleeing insurers to collapsing CO-OPs, House Republicans are ready to rescue the American people from Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Gary Kwong Yiu Chen, Anthony John Lai, and Xiu Ying Ling “Elaine" Liang pleaded guilty to money laundering charges; Tong Zao Zhang pleaded guilty to dealing in contraband cigarettes; and Bryan Tilton pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen goods in interstate commerce announced...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office announced the temporary closure of selected public lands for the annual running of the Parker 250 and Parker 425 off-highway vehicle desert races. The GMZ Utility Terrain Vehicle Winter Nationals Parker 250 race will be held Jan. 6-7, and the BlueWater Resort Parker 425 race will be held Feb. 3-5.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for December 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm Cowart, a/k/a “Prince", 37, of Harlem, New York, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin, cocaine base, and oxycodone and to discharging a firearm during and in furtherance of that drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Weathering Winter: Ancestral Pueblo Strategies for Winter.
By Federal Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
The Administration has released the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), focusing on national security, environmental protection, and economic development imperatives of the United States' electricity system. This installment proposes over 70 recommendations aimed at enabling the electricity sector to manage 21st-century risks and opportunities through policy changes and research and development investments.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today proposed revisions to the regulations that address smoking in national parks. The proposed revisions would change the regulation that defines smoking to include the use of electronic cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Shot One Man, Punched Two Others.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The president’s health care law has come to be defined as full of #BrokenPromises and #RateShock. From skyrocketing premiums and fleeing insurers to collapsing CO-OPs, House Republicans are ready to rescue the American people from Obamacare.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office is seeking volunteers to assist with a national mid-winter bald eagle survey on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant is One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as a Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, 50-year-old former El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) Associate Superintendent Damon Murphy admitted to defrauding the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) by artificially inflating state and federal student accountability scores announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division; and, U.S. Department of Education Inspector General Kathleen S. Tighe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Orlando - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Angel Manuel Fontanez (32, Clermont) and his brother, Alexis Fontanez Nieves (29, Orlando), to 17 years and 2 months and 14 years in federal prison, respectively, for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin. Fontanez pleaded guilty on Oct. 12, 2016, and Nieves pleaded guilty on Oct. 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 29-year-old Corpus man has entered a guilty plea to two counts of production of child pornography, otherwise known as sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hermitage, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $15,695, a $6,000 fine and to serve 150 hours of community service focused on the amelioration of the opioid epidemic, on his conviction of possession...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD-07), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, are reintroducing their Protecting Our Democracy Act to establish an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate foreign interference in the 2016 election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have sexually exploited four children under the age of seven.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the report released by the Intelligence Community on Russian interference in the presidential election (“Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections").
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision to approve the Sheep Mountain Uranium Project in southern Fremont County, Wyoming.
