News from January 2014
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule this week that will significantly cut red tape, while achieving better environmental outcomes, for certain transit and highway projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and spur them towards completion more quickly ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced that Qantas Airways, an airline based in Australia, violated federal rules last March by not informing passengers on a delayed aircraft at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport that they had the opportunity to leave the plane as it sat at the gate for an extended period of time with the door open. DOT fined Qantas $90,000 and ordered the airline to cease and desist from further violations.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: DOT 08-14 WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx today outlined his top priorities for the Department of Transportation , highlighting America’s infrastructure deficit and identifying ways for the Department to use innovation and improved planning to stretch transportation dollars ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: DOT Report Finds Rule Prohibiting Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours Has Virtually Eliminated Long Tarmac Delays, Has Little Effect on Cancellations. The U.S. Department of Transportation today released a report which found that its consumer protection rule prohibiting tarmac delays over three hours has ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Nathan Paul Davenport, 34, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boise for bank larceny by use of a dangerous weapon and use of a deadly weapon during a felony offense, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) backed the nominations of R. Gil Kerlikowske to serve as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Tamara W. Ashford to serve as a judge on the U.S. Tax Court and Judge L. Paige Marvel to serve a second term...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 22-year-old Quinlan, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Senator Henry Clay, who was the chairman of this committee in 1841, once said, “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees - and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: 2013 total enacted level: $53.6 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Deputy Chief Postal Inspector for Western Field Operations Dr. Gregory Campbell Jr. announced the results to date of Operation Broken Mailbox, an ongoing effort involving a surge of postal inspectors and analysts working with local law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute stolen mail offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: A three-count indictment was unsealed today charging two Ohio men with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Beverly Newton, age 52, of Middletown, Delaware, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to 63 months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Sandy Springs: On Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA) will join the other 401 units of the National Park Service in waiving entry fees as part of the National Park Service’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The usual $3 daily entrance fee will not be collected at boat ramps, picnic areas, and parking lots in the CRNRA.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing on the implications of the crisis in Ukraine:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In October and November 2011, lawsuits were filed in each of the four California federal judicial districts seeking to halt federal enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act against marijuana dispensaries on a variety of grounds. The suits claimed that the federal government could...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A federal inmate was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison for attempting to escape the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at McDowell, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Jason Dunlap, an inmate at FCI McDowell, 35, previously pleaded guilty in September 2013. Dunlap’s sentence was imposed by Senior United States District Court Judge David A. Faber in Bluefield.
