News from May 2017
By EPA Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a legislative hearing examining 10 bills to promote and modernize the nation’s hydropower and pipeline infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Stole $43,100 and threatened to kill bank employees, customers and an alleged child hostage.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a legislative hearing examining 10 bills to promote and modernize the nation’s hydropower and pipeline infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a report originally issued in 2010 by former Rep. Henry A. Waxman, who served at the time as Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Sixteen members and associates of Escondido-based Diablos street gang are charged with firearms and methamphetamine trafficking in most recent case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sugar Creek, Mo., woman and an Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a conspiracy to use online escort and massage ads to lure robbery victims.
By State Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed as amended the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 1677). Introduced by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the bill seeks to help stop the wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people and hold Syrian human rights abusers accountable for their crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Madison County Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested and Charged with Crimes Relating to Sexual Exploitation of Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Calvin Strong, age 25, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months of imprisonment for possessing a handgun and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai briefed a group of bipartisan members of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Raúl Labrador (R-ID) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke expressing concerns and requesting information on two climate change adaptation programs established within the Department of the Interior during the Obama administration.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg, Pa. -The National Park Service has announced a parking change for one of the houses featured in Doors Open Gettysburg, a free preservation event planned for this Saturday, May 6, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Michael D. Richardson, Jr. (25, Hillsborough County) to 18 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture of methamphetamine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: A jury convicted former physician Richard Rydze on all 180 charged counts, including conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, oxycodone and OxyContin, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A five-time felon was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kent J. Dawson to 235 months in prison for possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: For industry and government labs to ensure their pressure-measurement machines are working correctly, they need a reliable source of pressure. Often, that source is a piston gauge - a cylinder of metal that falls through a hollow cylinder or “sleeve" at a predictable rate. Staff at NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) perform precise calibrations of piston gauges for customers including the Navy, the Army, airlines, and power utility companies.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Taos, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office will be selling fuelwood permits for personal-use to the public starting May 1, 2017. The cost of the fuelwood permit is $12.00 per cord. Members of the public can purchase a minimum of one cord and up to eight cords per person.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced the Modernization of Derivatives Tax (MODA) Act of 2017 that will prevent wealthy investors from using complex financial tools as a way to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Last week the Trump administration issued a series of unprincipled tax reform goals that would allow wealthy investors to pay lower taxes than they are now.
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly today announced the appointment of Julie Kirchner as Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman. Kirchner was most recently an advisor to the Acting Commissioner ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $9.7 million to 12 small businesses for 13 Phase II contracts through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
