News from April 2018
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the hearing titled “The State of Rural America" featuring Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Seven defendants charged in an indictment returned in November 2017 were sentenced in recent weeks by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Lubbock, Texas area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois registered sex offender was sentenced March 23 to 56 years in state prison on multiple counts of child sexual assault and production of child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan, bicameral Keep America's Refuges Operational Act, H.R. 3979, which reauthorizes the National Wildlife Refuge System's volunteer, community partnership and education program through Fiscal Year 2022, has been enacted into law after passing Congress in recent weeks. These critical programs help to ensure public access to refuges across the country for exploring, hunting, fishing and studying wildlife.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act does more than accelerate the critical cycle of discovering new cures and treatments, developing them, and delivering them. The landmark law also made a number of important mental health reforms. Many of these reforms received critical resources in a government funding package that was signed into law by President Trump last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney has sentenced Jackson Suddreth Tyler, 22, of Troutman, N.C. to 228 months in prison, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered Tyler to serve six years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders today requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement of federal health and environmental safeguards, including EPA’s oversight of state enforcement programs. The request...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
Release: ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today highlighted security procedures ahead of the busy Carnival travel period and reminded travelers to keep in mind the following advice to help make their trip through the airport as efficient and comfortable as possible.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Women Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg National Military Park are inviting the public to special, free programs on Mother’s Day weekend, May 12 and 13. The programs are a community service presented to commemorate 50 years of women in guiding at Gettysburg, and are being offered exclusively by female Licensed Battlefield Guides.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Robert Hutchinson, Jr. 45, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today welcomed the Committee’s newest member, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: New policy to be announced today would upend EPA's historic use of ‘best available' scientific data in decision making and likely violate numerous laws
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Gainesville Hospital District d/b/a North Texas Medical Center will pay the United States $1,320,000 to resolve concerns surrounding payment arrangements with a physician, announced United States Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office awarded HPM Corporation (HPMC) nearly 92 percent of the available fee for the occupational medical services contractor for fiscal year 2017, which equates to $311,950 of a possible $340,000.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders today requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement of federal health and environmental safeguards, including EPA’s oversight of state enforcement programs. The request...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked the EPA's Designated Agency Ethics Official Kevin Minoli to detail his office's approval of outside employment for Administrator Scott Pruitt's head of security, Pasquale “Nino" Perrotta, and other EPA employees. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - JOSEPH F. RUIZ, 54, of McHenry, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford for concealment of an asset in a bankruptcy case.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Friday, April 20, 2018, United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Brian M. Madison, of West Des Moines to 18 months in prison for bank embezzlement, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Madison was ordered to pay $259,000 in restitution, serve five years of supervised release following his prison term, and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act does more than accelerate the critical cycle of discovering new cures and treatments, developing them, and delivering them. The landmark law also made a number of important mental health reforms. Many of these reforms received critical resources in a government funding package that was signed into law by President Trump last month.
