News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join a ranger on Sunday, October 29 and November 12 at 9:00 am or 1:00 pm for a two-hour tour of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in one of the park's 15-passenger, wheelchair lift equipped buses. This is a great opportunity to sit back, relax and enjoy the beautiful...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cayla Wujek, age 25, formerly of Lewis County, was sentenced yesterday to serve 66 months imprisonment for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining How Covered Entities Utilize the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of legislation to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers (CHC), and other important public health programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Oct. 3, 2017, Eric Nathaniel Sammons, age 25, of Trappe, Maryland, pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing titled, “Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires: Perspectives of Key Stakeholders:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, a federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois returned an indictment charging Phebe Ibrahim, formerly known as "Phebe Khan," 50, of St. Peters, MO, with 21 counts of bankruptcy fraud and related charges, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways announces that the Sinking Creek access, including the campground and gravel bar, will be temporarily closed to the public to allow for highway construction associated with the new Sinking Creek bridge project on Highway 19. The temporary closure is expected to begin on October 16 and be completed by November 3.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the impact wildfires have on air quality and emissions in the affected areas across the country. Members examined how better management of our forests is needed to avoid and minimize catastrophic wildfires - particularly members looked at how prescribed burns and fuel reduction are important forestry management tools.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Atlanta, Georgia tax consultant was sentenced in United States District Court this week, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., to 27 months in prison for committing mail fraud and money laundering associated with a scheme to defraud the Kentucky Department of Revenue and his client Signature Healthcare, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consent.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of legislation to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers (CHC), and other important public health programs...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the impact wildfires have on air quality and emissions in the affected areas across the country. Members examined how better management of our forests is needed to avoid and minimize catastrophic wildfires - particularly members looked at how prescribed burns and fuel reduction are important forestry management tools.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Buffalo, Mo., elementary school teacher’s assistant has been sentenced in federal court for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: In Austin, members and associates of the Dove Springs Gangstas (aka “DSG") face federal charges in connection with the death of Darian Longoria in December 2015 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Austin Police Chief Brian Manley.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, October 11 entitled “Confronting the Full Range of Iranian Threats." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing titled, “Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires: Perspectives of Key Stakeholders:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: A grand jury in Miami indicted eight individuals for their alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme that targeted investors throughout the Nation, defrauding them out of approximately $3 million. The main office operated out of Daytona Beach, Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) today held a markup on a number of bills to extend funding for critical health care safety net programs and bills designed to strengthen the Medicare Part B program.
