News published on Federal Newswire in June 2015

News from June 2015


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Digest DOT 59-15

News Release: BTS Releases Commodity Flow Survey Microdata - The Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau released a public use microdata product from the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) on Monday. This new data product is the first microdata product available to the public from the CFS ...


April 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data

News Release: April 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data


News Release: Oxycodone, Other Medications Distributed Resulted In At Least Eight Deaths.


News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced the indictment of Sarah Jane Paradise, a former U.S. Postal Service City Carrier, on charges of delaying, detaining and destroying U.S. Mail entrusted to her for delivery in Manistique, Michigan.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) was joined by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to introduce the Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act of 2015, legislation that targets waste, fraud and abuse through stronger oversight of federal agency travel and purchase cards spending.


Engel Calls on Slovenia to Release of Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement calling on the Government of Slovenia to release former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj who was detained recently on an old warrant from “Serbia and Montenegro," a country that no longer exists...


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Tyreek Styles, 27, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit home invasion robberies. At the time of the crimes, Styles was working as a correctional officer at Curran Fromhold Prison. On Sept. 26, 2014, a federal jury found Styles guilty of conspiracy, Hobbs Acts robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.


Wyden Hearing Statement on the Challenges to the Future of Highway Funding

News Release: America’s transportation arteries give life to America’s economy. Now, they need major surgery, but instead, the patient is bleeding out. And short-term funding Band-Aids won’t help without a solid long-term plan in place to solve the crisis.


News Release: Good morning. Before we begin today’s announcement, I want to take a moment to address the heartbreaking and deeply tragic events at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina - a crime that has reached into the heart of that community. The Department of Justice has opened a hate crime investigation...


News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced that Graeme Phillip Harris pleaded guilty today in federal court to threatening African-American students and employees at the University of Mississippi by helping place a rope around the neck of the James Meredith statue on campus.


News Release: Crater Road (Rt. 378) and Haleakalā National Park's summit road will close to visitor traffic while a slow moving convoy transports extremely wide loads to the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope near the volcano's summit. The roads will be closed to visitors from 10pm on Wednesday, June 24, through 2pm on Thursday, June 25. The summit will not be accessible for Thursday sunrise viewing.


News Release: Two central Florida residents have been charged by indictment with conspiracy to import alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (a-PVP), a/k/a "Flakka" from China. A Broward County resident has also been charged by indictment with distributing “Flakka" within 1000 feet of a Ft. Lauderdale elementary school and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.


Man Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With Veteran’s Day Armed Robbery Of Diamond District Store

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LEON FENNER pled guilty yesterday to the armed robbery of a store in the Diamond District of Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2014. FENNER pled guilty before United States District Judge William H. Pauley III.


FAA, EU Plan to Extend, Expand NextGen Pact

News Release: The FAA and the European Union today announced their intention to extend and expand their cooperative work toward providing seamless air traffic services for aircraft flying between the United States and Europe.


Morgantown woman convicted of arson

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sarah Beth Meckley, 33, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was convicted today of arson, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


News Release: Cedar Rapids - The Cedar Rapids Safe Streets Task Force took decisive action this past week to make the streets of the city safer. Ten individuals were charged on federal gun related offenses.


Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today allocated additional fiscal year 2015 funds for the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102).