News from January 2019

By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has awarded $111.2 million to three industry partners to develop accident tolerant fuels (ATF). General Electric (GE), Westinghouse (WEC), and Framatome received the financial assistance awards in late 2018 with FY18 ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Family Separation on Thursday February 7, at 10:30 am in 2123 of the Rayburn House...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: FBI and CMPD Seeking Information to Identify Murder Suspect.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - An Oklahoma man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today John Arthur Coburn, 72, of Morganton, N.C., to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Coburn was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Philadelphia Field Division and the Chester County Fire Marshal's Office announced today a conclusion to the origin and cause investigation into the fatal fire that occurred on Nov. 16, 2017 at the Barclay Friends Senior Center, located at 700 North Franklin Street in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has awarded $111.2 million to three industry partners to develop accident tolerant fuels (ATF). General Electric (GE), Westinghouse (WEC), and Framatome received the financial assistance awards in late 2018 with FY18...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A Bozeman man on Tuesday admitted to multiple charges accusing him of taking sexually explicit images of a minor girl, distributing the images and cyberstalking the victim by placing spytracker software on her cell phone, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Monroe felon pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing two handguns, multiple rounds of ammunition and a large capacity drum magazine.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: FBI Captures Bryan D. Conley who lured a Tennessee woman and sought ransom from her parents at one point threatening “one more lie and she’s dead".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Havre resident Charly McLain Rosette was sentenced today to three years in prison and three years of supervised for conspiring to distribute prescription pain pills on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced thatCARLOS PAIZ-CARDENAS, age 29, a native of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - The Justice Department and U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Roderick Douglas, a former supervisor at the Richwood Correctional Center, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of five inmates.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Hector Velez, 23, of Manchester, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men were indicted today for operating a heroin mill out of a penthouse apartment unit in luxury, residential high-rise tower in Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the effects of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of net...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently completed the integration of more than 9,700 real-world software test cases from the Static Tools Analysis Modernization Project (STAMP) into the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP). The test cases, known as BugInjector cases, improve software by enabling developers to evaluate their products against realistic test cases.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: 2018 was a devastating year for natural disasters. Yet for every event, whether hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, or volcanic eruption, Department of Energy (DOE) emergency responders were there, working with their partners to aid in restoring power to those impacted.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) issued the following joint statement today on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to overhaul the current rebate system...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at today’s meeting of the House-Senate Conference Committee on Homeland Security.