News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: A new measurement approach proposed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could lead to a better way to calibrate computed tomography (CT) scanners, potentially streamlining patient treatment by improving communication among doctors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Belcourt, North Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) blasted the Trump administration following reports that it is poised to set the salary threshold under which workers would be guaranteed overtime...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) officer involved in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher. Officials from the Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: First Extradition to the United States from Ireland since 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with multiple armed robberies in Canton and Mattapan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: DEA’s El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, is issuing this safety bulletin to remind the public not to purchase pills or medications from street dealers. Recently DEA El Paso learned that certain pills, which are being sold on the street and have similar markings to legitimate oxycodone pills, are in fact counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: A man accused of robbing banks around the country has been charged and is being detained in South Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Acting Intermountain Regional Director Kate Hammond announced the selection of Amnesty Kochanowski as superintendent of Devils Tower National Monument. Kochanowski has been serving as interim superintendent at Devils Tower National Monument since July 2018. She assumes her new role effective March 17, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Five people - including men with convictions for attempted murder with a firearm and abduction -- were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Ernest McRae, a/k/a Rat and Man Man, age 38, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 17 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin, powder cocaine, and crack cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation, today, announced interest rates for March 2019, which are effective March 1 - March 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for March is 2.625 percent, the same as 2.625 percent in February.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Effective Saturday, March 2, the National Park Service (NPS) will lower the speed limit on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to 40 miles per hour between Maryland State Routes 197 and 32. The NPS is making this change to calm traffic and make it easier for drivers to react to poor road conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for a federal firearms crime, announced United States Attorney Michael B. Stuart. Michael Matthew Phillips, age 31, was convicted of possessing a firearm by a prohibited person in September of last year following a two-day jury trial. Senior District Court Judge David A. Faber presided over the trial and sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Oil City, PA has been sentenced in federal court to two-and-a-half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - William B. McHenry, 71, of Canton, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme that adversely affected hundreds of victims across multiple states over a number of years, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after deportation and to immigration document fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- A Valley, Alabama woman was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for embezzling from her employer and filing false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging a Youngstown man with drug and firearms crimes.
