News from February 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the first Subcommittee on Aviation hearing of the 116th Congress, “Putting U.S. Aviation at Risk: The Impact of the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - There’s a lot more than meets the eye for a train to roll safely down the tracks! Steamtown National Historic Site’s (NHS) “Rosie the Railroader" invites children ages 5-10 years and their parents to join her to learn about “Working on the Railroad." This free, hands-on experience will be offered every Saturday in February and March (except March 16), 2019, with 45-minute programs starting at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Steven Hathaway, 42, of De Ruyter, NY, pleaded guilty to attempted receipt of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
Release: ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY: President Trump is directing the Federal Government to prioritize research and development of America’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a new letter sent today, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, ask Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt for documents, communications, and other information on the 2017 cancellation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeremy Lee Poafpybitty, a/k/a “Chooch", age 33, of Bunch, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Assaulting An Employee Of The United States With A Deadly And Dangerous Weapon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and (b), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: A Canadian man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for sending scores of messages over social media attempting to coerce an 11-year-old from Ohio to engage in sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged two members of an Ohio militia group with violating the National Firearms Act in an indictment unsealed here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Law enforcement discovered approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana and $688,000.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged two members of an Ohio militia group with violating the National Firearms Act in an indictment unsealed here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Throughout the recent 35-day lapse in appropriations, press releases for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota were very limited as required by Department of Justice rules. However, during any lapse in Congressional appropriations, the Department of Justice’s essential public safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Kimberly Jones, a Williamsburg pharmacist, was convicted last week, by a federal jury sitting in London, on seven counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. Devito, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CURTIS DRAUGHN, also known as “Kirk," 63, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport each made it into the Transportation Security Administration’s list of Top 10 List of most unusual items found at checkpoints in 2018. TSA released the list in an on-line video it posted on Twitter.
