News from January 2019
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after Hon. Ann Marie Buerkle was recently renominated to serve as the Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement upon the recent renomination of Heidi King to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - Nationwide, the Transportation Security Administration screened 1.78 million passengers yesterday, Sunday, Jan. 20. Overall, 99.9 percent of passengers waited less than 30 minutes and 93.1 percent of passengers waited less than 15 minutes. In TSA Pre✓® lanes, passengers on average waited less than 5 minutes. Please refer to the table below for top airport specific wait times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a businessman on tax evasion charges for allegedly scheming to evade personal income taxes for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Machesney Park resident was arrested Wednesday on a charge of possessing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - Nationwide, the Transportation Security Administration screened 1.6 million passengers yesterday, Saturday, Jan. 19. Overall, 99.9 percent of passengers waited less than 30 minutes and 93.8 percent of passengers waited less than 15 minutes. In TSA Pre✓® lanes, passengers on average waited less than 5 minutes. Please refer to the table below for top airport specific wait times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Tiffany Cook, a former Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) officer, pleaded guilty to being paid by a prison inmate to smuggle methamphetamine and marijuana into Hays State Prison located in Trion, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
News Release: A Missouri man who fraudulently sold tens of millions of dollars’ worth of non-organic grain as though it was organic pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA has been sentenced in federal court to four years and nine months in prison, followed by six years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - Nationwide, the Transportation Security Administration screened 2.27 million passengers yesterday, Friday, Jan. 18. Overall, 99.7 percent of passengers waited less than 30 minutes and 91.2 percent of passengers waited less than 15 minutes. In TSA Pre✓® lanes, passengers on average waited less than 5 minutes. Please refer to the table below for top airport specific wait times.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s Saturday afternoon speech today...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: Park officials announced today that visitor centers in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will be open for weekend operations beginning Saturday, January 19. Sequoia Parks Conservancy (SPC), the official park partner of the parks made a donation on Friday that covers National Park Service (NPS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a jury in Milwaukee returned guilty verdicts on two charges of impersonating a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent against Jeremy C. Wade, (age: 29) of Racine. Wade had been charged with violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 912.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) released the following statement after President Trump’s speech on Day 29 of the federal government shutdown.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to a draft...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police officer Rain Olson Daugherty was arrested yesterday and charged this morning with robbing a San Francisco bank, announced United States Attorney Alex. G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: The publication on Friday of the Federal Reserve Board's monthly statistical release on industrial production and capacity utilization marks the 100th anniversary of Board data on industrial production. The index has kept pace with an ever-evolving industrial sector by providing information that spans from the rise of the modern factory through the digital age.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: HASTINGS, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Noah's Ark Processors LLC – based in Hastings, Nebraska – for process safety management violations after an employee suffered severe burns caused by exposure to anhydrous ammonia, a gas used as an industrial refrigerant. The beef processing plant faces penalties of $182,926 for 16 serious safety violations.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has sentenced Lanny Todd Fried – of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida – to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release; and ordered him to pay a $81,163 fine for his role in a healthcare-related, money-laundering scheme.
