News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced that hiring grants for community policing officers were awarded to two local law enforcement agencies in the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Timothy Joiner, age 34 of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 20 years in Federal prison for attempted sexual exploitation of children. The sentence was handed down on Nov. 20, 2017, by Chief United States District Court Judge Clay D. Land in Columbus, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Holidays are always busy at Zion National Park. However, this Thanksgiving holiday weekend may be especially hard due to the road construction on State Route 9 in Springdale, just outside Zion’s main entrance. One-way traffic and flaggers are being used to help vehicles negotiate the...
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: FBI, CHP, Santa Rosa Police Department Seek Information on Wanted Fugitive.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will showcase 12 new innovative projects at an interagency demonstration day created through a federal initiative called The Opportunity Project (TOP). These new tools address problems such as youth and veteran homelessness, engaging hard-to-count populations in the decennial...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: Last week, the Department of Energy participated in a vitally-important exercise that brought together industry and government leaders focused on the response to simulated cyber and physical attacks on the North American power grid. Held every two years by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) scheduled a joint subcommittee hearing for Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PAMELA THOMPSON, age 63, of Algiers, pled guilty last week to Theft of Government Funds.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt regarding the agency’s management of small business contracts. EPA is...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: An Update from FDA and NIH."
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal net neutrality rules that were approved in 2015 and ensure that all internet content is treated equally...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) recently partnered with the local community to complete a mutually beneficial recycling project at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in southern Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury has convicted an MS-13 gang leader of racketeering conspiracy, following a two week trial in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: For Distribution of Heroin and Possession A Firearm By An Illegal Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Bryan Schroder has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the District of Alaska. Mr. Schroder was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 21, 2017, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Nov. 9, 2017. Today, he took the oath of office from Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) and other Alaska airports.
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the President’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians living in the United States...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Powering America: Examining the Role of Financial Trading in the Electricity Markets."
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World."
