News published on Federal Newswire in December 2015

News from December 2015


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a four page proposed rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a seven page notice on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


U.S. Department of Transportation Launches Smart City Challenge to Create a City of the Future

News Release: Partnership with Vulcan Inc. to transform mobility in a forward-looking U.S. city committed to reimagining its transportation system; DOT seeking other interested parties


DOT issues notice of proposed rulemaking on improved rear impact protection for trailers and semitrailers

News Release: DOT issues notice of proposed rulemaking on improved rear impact protection for trailers and semitrailers


U.S. Department of Transportation Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Improved Rear Impact Protection for Trailers and Semitrailers

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that focuses on upgrading the Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSSs) that address underride protection in light-vehicle crashes into the rear ...


U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $19.1 million for Jacksonville Bus Rapid Transit Southeast Corridor Project

News Release: U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $19.1 million for Jacksonville Bus Rapid Transit Southeast Corridor Project


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) released the following statement on Sunday’s legislative elections in Venezuela...



Sex Offender Arrested For False Statements Regarding Computer Access

News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, Petix lied to federal probation officers and law enforcement agents about his ownership and use of a laptop computer and a smartphone. Petix is on a term of supervised release following a 2009 federal...


Three Plead Guilty, One Is Sentenced for Extensive Counterfeit Media Conspiracy in Central Valley

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Efrain Lozada Rosas, 34, and Victor Flores Fuentes, 39, both of San Jose, and Jesus Cuevas Lopez, 25, of Southern California, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement and commit related crimes, United...


News Release: MOOSE, WY -The National Park Service (NPS) has extended the public review and comment period for the Moose-Wilson Corridor Draft Comprehensive Management Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Plan/EIS) through Jan. 30, 2016. The comment period, which began on Oct. 29, was initially scheduled to end on December 29. The extension brings the total public review and comment period to 93 days.


News Release: WASHINGTON - The ongoing migration surge from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador reflects troubled conditions in those countries that the United States has contributed to with its insatiable appetite for illegal drugs and should help combat, according to a new report,...


Appellate Court Denies Estate Planner’s Attempt to Vacate Guilty Plea; Leaves Prison Term, Restitution Order Intact

News Release: Joseph A. Caramadre is currently serving a 6-year prison sentence for conspiring to steal and use the identities of terminally-ill patients to obtain millions of dollars in illicit profits.


U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin continues crackdown on heroin dealers

News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced the prosecution of two more heroin dealers today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia. A Charleston man was sentenced for distribution of heroin, and a Detroit man entered a guilty plea to aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin.


Jury Finds Oklahoma City Man Guilty of 17 Counts of Theft of Mail by a Postal Service Employee

News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - On Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, a federal jury found JEFFREY LEMON, JR., 30, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, guilty on 17 counts of theft of mail matter by a postal service employee, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


News Release: On a bipartisan basis, the House Judiciary Committee has been working on several bills to improve our broken criminal justice system. These bills will insure that our federal criminal laws and regulations are effectively and appropriately enforced, operate with fairness and compassion, protect individual freedom, safeguard civil liberties, work as efficiently as possible, do not impede state efforts, and do not waste taxpayer dollars.


News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two more defendants were sentenced in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, for their role in an oxymorphone distribution scheme that took place in a Nitro home.