News from November 2017
By USDA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Olympic Wholesale Produce Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Dube, 48, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to three counts of mailing threatening communications, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley of the District of New Hampshire announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison with eight years suspended for driving while intoxicated on Barksdale Air Force Base.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: FARGO, N.D. - A North Dakota man was sentenced Friday to 22 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Florien man was sentenced Wednesday to 36 months in prison for not complying with sex offender registration requirements after he did not inform authorities he had moved back to Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday yesterday sentenced Gary Paul Moorman (35, Cincinnati, Ohio) to 20 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum penalty, for inducement to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity. He pleaded guilty on July 21, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Ranking Members of the Committees on Science, Space & Technology and Energy & Commerce sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly opposing the directive he issued imposing severe limitations on the scientific advice and expertise that the...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Jane Doe. More HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Wearing Dark Wig Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is re-opening the San Pedro House recreation site, located in the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area (SPRNCA), now that the pruning of the two ailing cottonwood trees is complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two Gardner men were arrested today and charged in federal court in Worcester with firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor this morning during consideration of H.R. 3922...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Gene...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Blackshell was previously sentenced in state court to life in prison without parole for the murders of Johnny Johnson, Raekwon Manigault, and Jonah Barley during a mass shooting outside the Boys & Girls Club of Rochester on Aug. 19, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 3, 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 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt's intention to appoint Wyoming's Cara Keslar to serve on the EPA Board ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Dear Dr. Fitzgerald: Earlier this year, we wrote to request information on your agency’s pandemic flu preparedness plans. We have not yet received a response to our letter, which leaves us unable to assess whether the federal government is in fact prepared to respond in the case of a pandemic flu outbreak.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting that the upcoming - Tuesday, November 7th - Energy Subcommittee hearing on two bills be postponed due to the lack of witnesses from both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3922, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, by a vote of 242-174. H.R. 3922 provides funding extensions of vital, popular public health programs, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Money supported a family owned business, personal expenses and gambling activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for his role in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy that operated throughout Worcester County.
