News from January 2015
By DOT News Wire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx launched the “Mayors' Challenge for Safer People and Safer Streets,” which invites Mayors and local elected officials to attend a Safer People, Safer Streets Summit and then take significant action over the next year to improve pedestrian ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced $2.47 million for projects that will speed deployment of innovative road and bridge work in Maine, Pennsylvania and Washington. The funds, the first awarded this calendar year under the FHWA’s Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration program, will be used to offset the cost of more efficient highway project delivery.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: November 2014 Passenger Airline Employment Data
By DOT News Wire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces Plan to Add Two Automatic Emergency Braking Systems to Recommended Vehicle Advanced Technology Features
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Northeast Regional Director Mike Caldwell has selected Stephen Clark to be superintendent of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania, which include the Flight 93 National Memorial, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Fort Necessity National Battlefield and Friendship Hill National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced January 7, 2015, to ten years in federal prison. Salvador Guiterrez, 41, from Carroll, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 31, 2014, guilty plea to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Aleksandar Randjelovich, 39, of Fair Oaks, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to eight years and two months in prison for receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,Jan. 22, 2015-Nature inspires artists of all ages! Students can demonstrate their creativity through theYouth Arts in the Parksart contest, part of New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend (April 24 -26). The art work of contest finalists will be showcased at Tamarack in Beckley...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURG, Kan. - Two Lone Star Management LLC employees were directed to use a gas-powered forklift to move pallets of fireworks and cardboard out of an explosives storage facility in Pittsburg when the gas ignited, which caused an explosion and fire. Within seconds, the trapped employees became engulfed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - After a month-long federal trial, Joshua M. Gonsalves was sentenced on multiple charges arising from a three-year conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which he and his brother distributed on Cape Cod and generated over $5 million in proceeds.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BEAR, Del. - A chance to get on-the-job training in construction turned tragic when a Delaware high school student suffered a severe head injury after a one-story fall off an unguarded balcony at a local construction site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Joshua David Buerman, 27, formerly of Traverse City, Michigan, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York on a charge originally brought here in the Western District of Michigan. He received 9 years in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 22, 2015, Justin Scott Coffey, age 30, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 63 months in prison, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Coffey also was ordered to serve four years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Hector Manuel Mendoza, 32, of Sacramento, charging him with possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Holds Open House for 2015 Park Compendium and Hearing on Permanent Horse Restrictions in Dyea -Feb. 10, 2015 -6:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 240 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Lindsey Dale Bowling, 30, of Princeton, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal jury in Corpus Christi has convicted Rodolfo Casares, 38, of Brownsville, on one count of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances - methamphetamine and cocaine, respectively, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for two hours and returned the guilty verdicts just moments ago following a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Sonia Kim, Julius Caubat, Kamaljit Billen, Gurdeep Singh, June Chungil, and Justin Byun, charging them with conspiracy to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.
