News from September 2018
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A $736,313 grant from the Department of Justice will help Kansas expand its K-TRACS prescription drug monitoring program, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 84 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 18 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges a Santa Ana man with possessing significant quantities of narcotics - including the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl - that he intended to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced staff updates including promoting Becky Cole to deputy staff director and a new communications team lineup: Nicole Hager will take on a new role as the committee’s acting communications director and Brigid Ueland will be promoted to deputy press secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Dr. John R. Sink, Jr., who is a Ph.D. psychologist, and his wife Diane M. Sink pled guilty on Sept. 25, 2018 before Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson in federal court in Cheyenne to making false statements to Wyoming Medicaid as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicaid for alleged mental health services. U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Mark A. Klaassen, whose office prosecuted the case, announced the guilty pleas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Contact: Tracy O’Toole, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, 425-783-6015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn the major constellations, purchase Native American art, and make pioneer butter at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Rajheem Kwamaine Roddey, 24, of Starke, Florida, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison after pleading guilty on June 5, 2018, to benefitting financially from child sex trafficking. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing entitled Impact of Tariffs on the U.S. Auto Industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Judiciary Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in support of H.R. 6, the bipartisan opioid legislation released last night...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced MURDOCK RAEFORD SHERROD, 53, of Wilson, North Carolina to 120 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. SHERROD was charged in an Indictment on March 7, 2018 with a Hobbs Act Robbery. On May 1, 2018, SHERROD pled guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that three illegal aliens from Guatemala were sentenced Tuesday for re-entering the United States after having been previously removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury sitting in Houston has convicted a 35-year-old Houston man for carjacking and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for approximately three hours before convicting Sean Rodriguez following a less than three-day trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following list of Democratic homeland security bills and priorities that were included in the final FAA Reauthorization Act (H.R. 302) that passed the House of Representatives today. Ranking Member Thompson released the following statement on the legislative package...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Richard F. Moloney, 42, of Milford, Maine pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to interfering with commerce by robbery and bank robbery. The charges arose from the robbery of the County Road Market in Milford and a Bangor Savings Bank branch located in Orono in June 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Jason Allen Lay, 43, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced on Monday to six years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute one pound of methamphetamine.
