News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Medicaid and Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that COREY CELESTINE, age 33, pled guilty today to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. CELESTINE pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Brandon Tyler Hill, age 31, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced on Jan. 19, 2017 by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 360 months (30 years) in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervision for transportation of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that COREY CELESTINE, age 33, pled guilty today to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. CELESTINE pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump designated Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen as Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Medicaid and Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D. Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, reacted to the responses of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to questions submitted for the record following the hearing on his nomination. The questions submitted also included those sent by Senator Carper to the nominee nearly a month ago to which he had never received a response.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Electricity Sector’s Efforts to Respond to Cybersecurity Threats."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: JAN 25 - BOSTON - - The owner of a New Bedford, Massachusetts gym was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a wide-ranging conspiracy involving heroin distribution throughout Bristol County, Mass. and Providence, R.I.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24 year-old Houston man has been found guilty for the armed robbery of a Capital One Bank and for using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A Houston federal jury convicted Trent Davis today following two days of trial and approximately an hour of deliberation.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in federal prison for running a sex trafficking operation, which included a minor girl.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), answering and returning all of his questions for the record (QFR), from his nomination hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact on the proposed execution of interim renewal contracts with Panoche Water District and San Luis Water District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 35-year-old Trinidad, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Daniel Andrew Mills, 41, of Jerome, Idaho, was sentenced today to serve ten years in prison for unlawful possession of firearms and violating the conditions of his supervised release, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Mills to 100 months ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Electricity Sector’s Efforts to Respond to Cybersecurity Threats."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, the wife of former Supervisory Customs and Border Protection Officer Lawrence Madrid who failed to appear for trial last year pleaded guilty to her role in an alien smuggling and bribery scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jeff Mayfield, (ASAC) Las Cruces; and, Department of Homeland Security-Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Javy Pedroza.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: JAN. 25, 2017 - About 5 million (24.1 percent) U.S. veterans 18 years and older lived in areas designated as rural between 2011 and 2015, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The report found that when considering demographic and economic characteristics, rural veterans were similar to urban veterans except for their median household income and employment rates.
