News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - William Hilts, a/k/a “True," age 53, and Elijah Jones, age 31, both of Schenectady, New York, were sentenced today for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is excited to announce that Becky Burghart has been selected as the Site Manager for the Hanford location of Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - EM and contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth are partnering with United Steelworkers (USW) to make a physically demanding and potentially hazardous job safer and more efficient using remotely operated cutting equipment and a virtual reality interface.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON Pa. -An investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia resulted in a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania man pleading guilty on Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy to distribute bath salts. HSI was supported by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Pennsylvania State Police, and local police from Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Five defendants have been indicted on federal firearms violations for conspiring to “straw purchase" handguns in Michigan and re-sell them in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Shana Raelisa Johnson, 35, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 44 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution. Johnson had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A former Border Patrol agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for making a false statement regarding a 2007 narcotics seizure.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Rebecca S. Kanter (619) 546-7304.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a firearm after he shot at police officers who were executing a search warrant at his residence.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on H.R. 3668, the “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2017" or “SHARE Act." The billincreases opportunities for hunters, anglers and shooters, eliminates red tape impeding outdoor sporting activities, and protects Second Amendment Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced EDWIN LEO BROWN, 28, of Jacksonville, to 210 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: I want to take my remarks this morning in two parts. First I’d like to respond to some of the common arguments about the ACA. And then I’d like to get to what this committee does best and look at big ideas to take on health care challenges.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA); Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-FL); Representative Adriano...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held its third scheduled hearing on bipartisan steps Congress should take to stabilize the individual insurance market with state flexibility experts. In her opening statement, Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: The world is a smaller place today, thanks to the internet and advancements in air travel. In this technologically advanced environment, first responders and others who ensure the security of our nation need every tool available to stay on top of emerging threats. Sometimes, governmental laboratories and research agencies hold the answers. Other times, we must look to industry, to academia, and to innovators working out of their homes or a small business.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 2611, the “Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act." Introduced by Rep. French Hill (R-AR), the bill modifies the boundary of the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas to include seven residences in the immediate proximity of the high school.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released new research today that shows the solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative. Largely due to rapid cost declines in solar photovoltaic (PV) hardware, the average price of utility-scale solar is now 6 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2017 -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today outlined steps the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken to help the people of Florida and other states and U.S. territories ravaged by Hurricane Irma, underscoring the Department’s commitment to feeding all those in need in times of disaster.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Harold “Hal" Rogers (R-KY), and Eliot Engel (D-NY), sent a letter today to Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on the Office’s role in the reorganization of the U.S. State Department and the U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today on new federal guidance for Automated Driving Systems released by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA):
