News from May 2018
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement marking the one year anniversary of the Republican vote in the House of Representatives to pass their destructive health care bill...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) announced today a hearing on “Jobs and Opportunity: Legislative Options to Address the Jobs Gap." The hearing will take place on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building at 10:00 AM.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that an illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty to reentering the United States after having been previously removed from the United States on three occasions.
By US DOT Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) questioned the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Water-Gen, an Israeli ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell sentenced William “Larry" Dorsey, 56, of Chandler, Ariz., to 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The Court also ordered Dorsey to pay $7.3 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Dorsey had previously pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: Virtual reality produces entertaining video games. But it’s also a serious training and testing tool. Pilots test their skill with flight simulators, and the military can practice by playing war games, for example.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2018
Release: Destin, Fla. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants to remind travelers of new security procedures ahead of the busy summer travel period to make any trip through the airport as efficient and comfortable as possible. Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport (VSP) is expecting a very busy travel season this summer, and the following recommendations will help to make your summer travel go as smoothly as possible.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: Washington - The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) reached a consent decision with Farmington Livestock LLC (Farmington) and owner, Keith Robertson (Robertson), Bourbon, Mo., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the three House Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), sent a letter...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On May 3, 2018, following a three-day jury trial, Bruce Zachary Pugh, age 26, Darren Lamont Warren, age 22, and Desharrlequez Malike Vesey, age 23, were each found guilty of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers, II, RAYMOND LEE BRYANT, JR, of Roseboro, North Carolina, was charged in a federal Criminal Complaint with carjacking and carrying and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to the carjacking.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York, four individuals have been extradited from Mexico to the United States to face sex trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Join us for an evening under the wonderful Western sky on Saturday, May 19th.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WESTON, Fla. - - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at close to 6,000 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state...
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - After U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill discovered in 2017 that some Missourians living near the Iowa border have mailing addresses for Iowa instead of Missouri, she called for the United States Postal Service (USPS) to resolve the issue and introduced a bill to fix it. Now, McCaskill has discovered...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On May 13, 18 and 19, the Bureau of Land Management is sponsoring events, highlighting public land resources near Las Cruces. The events are planned to take advantage of the springtime weather and get the public outdoors to enjoy the Dripping Springs Natural Area and the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - On Friday, May 4, the BLM gathered with the United States Forest Service, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wyoming State Forestry Division, the dispatch center board, and county partners from across the state to officially cut the ribbon on the newly formed Casper Combined Interagency Dispatch Center.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Dec. 8, 2017, The St. Joseph Stockyards Inc. (St. Joseph), St. Joseph, Mo., waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and paid a penalty of $5,000 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: The Park is soliciting public comments through June 4, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the three House Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), sent a letter...
