News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing, entitled “Temporary Policy in the Internal Revenue Code" on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 2:00p.m., in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 4, 2019, Travis Lester Begay, 30, of Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to eight years’ imprisonment. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, the Subcommittee on the Environment will hold a hearing on “Examining PFAS Chemicals and their Risks."
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today it was reported by multiple news outlets that a new record number of migrant families or unaccompanied minors caught crossing the southern border over an entire year has been set in just five months. Sen. Johnson released the following statement regarding these reports...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Willard Lee Moss, Jr., of Saint Marys, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months incarceration for a firearms violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WARMINSTER, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Etna Construction Inc. - based in Warminster, Pennsylvania - for exposing employees to excavation hazards at a worksite in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company faces $208,560 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: New Mexico residents Antoine Mitchell, Moses D. Dickens III, and Christopher Dominguez, were all sentenced in a Cheyenne federal court recently after pleading guilty to crimes related to a violent crime spree that included armed pharmacy robberies in Wyoming and New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Georgetown Heritage and the National Park Service (NPS) invite you to a public workshop to give feedback on updated concepts for the Georgetown Canal Plan. The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Canal Overlook room at Georgetown Park.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) is changing the landscape when it comes to revegetation by using innovative planning and planting techniques.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JAYVON DOMINIQUE GANT, 28, to eight years in prison for bank robbery. GANT, who pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2018, was sentenced today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - March 5, 2019 - Two indictments unsealed today charged thirteen Middle Tennessee individuals with various crimes relating to a conspiracy to unlawfully possess and distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in the Middle Tennessee area, and federal firearms violations, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced that Alex Taylor, 49, of San Jose, was arrested on Saturday, March 2, 2019, outside his residence in San Jose, Calif., for impersonating a federal agent.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
Release: ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A Florida man’s checked bag triggered an alarm as it passed through the Transportation Security Administration’s checked baggage security equipment at Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) yesterday (March 4th). When they opened the bag, TSA officers were quite surprised to see unassembled parts of a rocket propelled grenade launcher and grenade packed inside. The checked bag contained the weapon’s barrel, trigger, sights and grenade.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 4, EM Assistant Secretary Anne White addressed the 2019 Waste Management Symposia, the preeminent international conference for the management and disposition of radioactive wastes and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Following are White’s remarks as prepared. More coverage of the conference will appear in the March 12 EM Update.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen requesting documents related to 2016 election interference briefings conducted by DHS, FBI, and National Security Council for Members of Congress and the major presidential campaigns.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument Integrated Pest Management Plan Reduced from Environmental Assessment to Categorical Exclusion.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank farm worker was recently recognized for lifesaving actions in the face of tragedy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SYBIL F. BUTLER, 56, of Norwalk, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to one count of theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that on March 1, 2019, Lance Bruette, (age 36) of Minocqua was sentenced in federal court to 48 months in prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone. Bruette had previously pleaded guilty to this charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Topeka, KS - On Wednesday, February 27th, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Task Force with assistance from the Riley County Police Department, Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, and the Kansas Highway Patrol arrested Jeffrey Gilseth, 32, and Maria Gilseth, 32. The couple was wanted in Killeen, TX...
