News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KinderCare Education LLC (“KinderCare") of Portland, Oregon, has entered into a settlement agreement with the government to resolve allegations that KinderCare’s child care programs and other services were not accessible to children with Type 1 diabetes who are dependent on insulin injections, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s California State Office and Mother Lode Field Office, along with Tahoe National Forest, Waste Management and Nevada County are hosting a tire amnesty event daily from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 1-5, to help keep the environment clean. Participants must be Nevada County residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Miguel Ayala-Guarchaj, 33, a citizen of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to the felony offense of unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-089-18, issued at 9:00am on September 26th, which announced export sales of 650,387 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2018/2019 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows: exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By EPA 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: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Kenneth Tyrone Evans of Mobile, Alabama was sentencing followed entry of a plea of guilty in May 2018, to a charge of prohibited person in possession of a firearm. United States District Court Judge William H.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brian Dyea, 30, an enrolled member of Laguna Pueblo who resides in Mesita, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an arson charge.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today met and released the following statement on progress of the 2018 Farm Bill.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on “Built in America: Jobs and Growth in the Manufacturing Sector:"
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement on the House passage of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which includes essential funding for the landmark 21st Century Cures (Cures) Act and increased efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing to discuss bipartisan legislation to improve the 9-1-1 system and strengthen public safety communications. The bills examined today included: * H.R. 6424, the 9-1-1 Fee Integrity Act, sponsored by #SubCommTech Vice Chairman Leonard...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Rockford-area men were indicted Tuesday in separate cases by a federal grand jury in Rockford on child pornography charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing to discuss bipartisan legislation to improve the 9-1-1 system and strengthen public safety communications. The bills examined today included: * H.R. 6424, the 9-1-1 Fee Integrity Act, sponsored by #SubCommTech Vice Chairman Leonard...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been extradited from Mexico back to the United States to face charges filed against him in 2011 for stealing approximately $4.3 million dollars belonging to KeyBank.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today awarded Echodyne Corporation of Bellevue, Washington $200,000 to begin the final testing phase as part of S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced the award of a $185,000 grant to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife for enhancement and further roll-out of a watercraft inspection and decontamination database. Federal and state inspectors use the database to track watercraft decontamination...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Cleaning Up the Oceans: How to Reduce the Impact of Man-Made Trash on the Environment, Wildlife, and Human Health." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that earlier today, ROBERT PIZARRO and JUAN RIVERA were convicted of murdering a witness to prevent reporting to law enforcement, kidnapping conspiracy, kidnapping resulting in death, robbery conspiracy, robbery, and firearms offenses, arising out of the murder of federal cooperating witness Robert Bishun on Sept. 20, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today met and released the following statement on progress of the 2018 Farm Bill.
By DOE 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...
