News from April 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced 15 key findings from a final version of a new “green paper " on maximizing U.S. innovation from government-funded research.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters to six federal agencies today requesting briefings on efforts to address the alarming rate of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. Since 1987, the number of reported pregnancy-related deaths in America has more than doubled from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births to 18.0 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 1 at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, on reauthorization of the Pipeline Safety Act. The hearing is entitled, “The State of Pipeline Safety and Security in America."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney, is pleased to announce that Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) federal grant dollars are available for State and local government agencies to partner with federal law enforcement on targeted and prioritized violent-crime reduction programs, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Drug dealer Trevon Antone Lucas pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday, admitting that he sold pills containing fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing his fatal overdose last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jonathan Allen Mowery, of Harman, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Series of Crimes Took Place Across Area in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALBERT LEE ROBINSON, 58, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLENN JAMISON, 37, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2019
News Release: Former State Department Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Foreign Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: A fugitive wanted since 2015 for a Hobbs Act Robbery related to jewelry store smash and grabs in 2014 and 2015 appeared in federal court today. Arthur Berry Jr. was arrested by the FBI’s Phoenix Division on March 18, 2019 and was returned to Michigan earlier this week to face charges for conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm following an 11-hour standoff with law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BRYAN BOARDMAN, a/k/a “Boon," 25, for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of two individuals. FRANKLIN JACKSON, a/k/a “Frankie," 23, also pleaded guilty on April 18, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin. Both defendants entered their guilty pleas before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Greek Ship Management Company, Corporate Vessel Owner, and Chief Engineer Indicted for Falsification of Pollution Records, Obstruction of Justice, and Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: The public can dispose of their expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at over 600 collection sites throughout New England.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus man was arrested and charged today on drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Rhode Island Man Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 23, 2019 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting online applications for funding through the new ReConnect Rural Broadband Pilot Program. These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 23, 2019 – Food waste is a problem everyone can tackle, including our nation’s youth. As part of Winning on Reducing Food Waste Month , the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is launching Ace the Waste! A student competition for food waste reduction ideas. This first-ever competition calls on students to come up with creative solutions to reduce food loss and waste in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: A Hope, Rhode Island, man who failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal income taxes pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman for the ...
