News from March 2019
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - On Feb. 07, 2019, Richard Schisler, doing business as Richard Schisler’s Livestock, Littlestown, Pa., waived his right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $550 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SPOTSYLVANIA, VA: Mark your calendars! On the weekend of June 22-23, 2019, the National Park Service will host a unique living history event on the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield. Visitors will have the opportunity to engage with reenactors by receiving an identity card containing information about a soldier who actually fought in the battle. Attendees may immerse themselves into the battlefield’s history while learning about what happened to their designated soldier.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) held a press call with patients and women’s health leaders to highlight the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON BROCKETT, 45, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 14 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced charges today against seven individuals in fraud and money laundering...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, March 7, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $155,293 to Nebraska as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The deadline for submitting comments on the Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) draft Compliance Assessment Bulletin (CAB) has been extended to March 31. Issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), this draft CAB addresses P25 Baseline Inter-Radio Frequency Sub-System Interface (ISSI) and Console Sub-System Interface (CSSI) Conformance Testing Requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A multi-agency operation in the Southern District of Georgia is receiving national recognition for dismantling a major drug trafficking organization whose methods included delivering contraband to prisons with drones and using funding from a lottery winner.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) today held a business meeting to re-report four nominees for the Department of Energy:
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed expansion of the Coeur Rochester and Packard Mines near Lovelock in Pershing County. The publication of the Notice of Intent in the Federal Register today opens a 30-day public scoping period, during which the interested parties may help define the environment issues to be considered in the EIS.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Jerry Moran (R-KS) today led 23 of their Senate colleagues to reintroduce a bipartisan resolution opposing privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The resolution...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Georgia man pled guilty to a drug charge today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Clifford Allen Angle, 31, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The investigation was conducted by the Charleston Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing, entitled “The President's Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Proposal with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin" on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 9 a.m. in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced charges today against seven individuals in fraud and money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing crack cocaine and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI Announce the Western District’s Elder Justice Initiative to Combat Financial Schemes Targeting Older Adults.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: At a subcommittee hearing on multiemployer pensions, members on both sides of the aisle came together to discuss the severe challenges facing the multiemployer pension system and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: EL PASO, TX-Jesus Angel Garcia, 31, of Peralta, New Mexico, and Alexandro Montelongo-Murillo, 23, of El Paso, were arrested earlier this afternoon at the 9400 block of Dyer Street, El Paso, Texas. Garcia and Murillo are both wanted by the Valencia County Sherriff’s Office (VCSO), New Mexico, in reference to the execution style murder of Daniel Sandoval of Meadow Lake, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Keith Willette, 56, of Cameron Park, charging him with attempted production of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Copen, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced to 188 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution yesterday, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
