News from November 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (PA-14) released the following letter to each of the Members of the Federal Communications Commission. The letter urges the Commissioners to comply with existing federal law by enforcing the statutory national cap on ownership of broadcast stations.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (PA-14) released the following letter to each of the Members of the Federal Communications Commission. The letter urges the Commissioners to comply with existing federal law by enforcing the statutory national cap on ownership of broadcast stations.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday evening, President Trump signed H.R. 304, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017, into law.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (PA-14) released the following letter to each of the Members of the Federal Communications Commission. The letter urges the Commissioners to comply with existing federal law by enforcing the statutory national cap on ownership of broadcast stations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: BRONX, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and Angel...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday evening, President Trump signed H.R. 304, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017, into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Darin Devon Hurd, age 25, of Winona Lake, Indiana was charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced that #SubCommTech will hold a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Latest Developments in Combating Online Sex Trafficking."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A total of nine men have been arrested following multiple enforcement actions in Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Crowley, Louisiana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Anil Uskanli, age 26, of Turkey, was sentenced today to time-served (six months) in federal prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $8,525.00 for interfering with American Airlines flight crew members and attendants while aboard a May 19, 2017 flight from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp announced the reopening of Christiansted National Historic Site and Buck Island Reef National Monument on the island of St. Croix and Trunk Bay Beach at Virgin Islands National Park on the island...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced that #SubCommTech will hold a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Latest Developments in Combating Online Sex Trafficking."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Preston Pope, age 27, of Omaha, Nebraska, was found guilty by a jury yesterday of robbery and firearms charges occurring in August 2015. The federal trial started Nov. 14, 2017 in front of U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) researchers have won 33 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine and received a special recognition award for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The annual R&D 100 Awards are given in recognition ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
Release: Transportation Security Administration officers at airports across the state of Florida have discovered 440 firearms at security checkpoints in 2017 as of November 20th, surpassing the total of 411 firearms found last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that the Lafayette Police Department has been awarded $1,249,999 in grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) COPS Hiring Program (CHP).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Robert Gene Rand, a Reno physician who operated Rand Family Care, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter of a patient and unlawful distribution of oxycodone. This sentence is the result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Corpus Christi resident has entered a guilty plea to bank robbery, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Nicholas Rodimon, 31, of Colchester, Vermont, was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 114 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered Rodimon to serve an eight (8) year term of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), concluded an emergency wild horse helicopter gather on a portion of the Fox and Lake Range Herd Management Area on November 18. The BLM gathered 189 wild horses.
