News from June 2014
By DOE Gazette | Jun 6, 2014
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on June 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Inspectors to conduct 45-day focused safety assessment of Metra
By DOT News Wire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the release of $1 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to the Alabama Department of Transportation for repairs to the northbound I-65 bridge over Middle River in Baldwin and Mobile Counties which was damaged by a truck fire last month.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: FMCSA Grants Exemption to Livestock Haulers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that drivers of vehicles hauling livestock will be granted a one-year exemption from the 30-minute break requirement during the first eight hours of a shift. This requirement is part of ...
By DOT News Wire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Funds will help begin repair work to critical Wilmington-area bridge
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Curtis Anthony Shell, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced on June 4, 2014, to 262 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute up to 8.4 kilograms of crack cocaine, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, man was sentenced to 23 months of imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining Treasury checks and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Jacob Allen Mack, 24, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with one count of bank robbery. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed on June 4, 2014, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jennifer Wynn has pleaded guilty to charges that she stole nearly $200,000 from the federal government by illegally receiving and spending her mother-in-law's Social Security benefits for nearly 20 years after her mother-in-law's death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Christopher Lee, 41, of Corpus Christi, has been ordered to federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Lee pleaded guilty March 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - During three telephone conference calls with an outside auditing firm and his own company’s CEO and CFO in November 2012 and January 2013, a sales representative for a downstate computer and telecommunications business posed as an employee of a global telecommunications company that the downstate...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - Snake River flows below Milner Dam will increase beginning Tuesday June 10 to deliver water for salmon and steelhead downstream, in accordance with Reclamation’s commitments under the Endangered Species Act. These flows will continue down the river below Milner Dam and pass over Shoshone Falls, near Twin Falls.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Pump up your bicycle tires! Newton B. Drury Parkway in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park will be closed to vehicle traffic all day on Saturday, June 7th, creating a wonderful opportunity for bicylists and walkers to enjoy the parkway without the noise and congestion of motorized vehicles. The parkway gates will close at 10:00 pm on Friday, June 6th, and re-open at 10:00 pm on Saturday, June 7th.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Well over 300 special agents and officers arrested 28 defendants for drug trafficking and related crimes during early morning raids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, June 6, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUICY REID-STITH, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today released its latest assessment of mental health services at the Los Angeles County jails, which concludes that, despite progress in some areas, the County of Los Angeles fails to provide sufficient suicide-prevention practices to protect prisoners from self-harm.
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mirwaiss Aminzada, 44, of Montreal, Quebec, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), was sentenced today to 15 months in prison, 1 year of supervised release and restitution of $586,798. On Dec. 19, 2013, Aminzada pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded drugs into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal jury, in Jacksonville, has found Richard Dale Brooks (55, Cocoa) guilty of receiving videos of child pornography and possessing an image of child pornography using the Internet. Brooks faces a minimum of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced yesterday that Daniel Todd Manning (42, Jacksonville) has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with failing to register as sex offender, after traveling from the state of Missouri. He is also charged with the possession ...
