News published on Federal Newswire in April 2016

News from April 2016


The US Transportation Department published a five page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a nine page proposed rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Announces Pacesetter Award Winners for 2015 Navigation Season

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) today announced that six U.S. ports in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System received its Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award for registering increases in international cargo tonnage shipped through their ports during the 2015 navigation season compared to the previous year.


News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an El Paso man pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to transport and distribute methamphetamine.


Committee Leaders Respond to Labor Department’s Final Fiduciary Rule

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s final “fiduciary" rule...


National Weather Service will stop using all caps in its forecasts

News Release: New forecast software is allowing the agency to break out of the days when weather reports were sent by “the wire" over teleprinters, which were basically typewriters hooked up to telephone lines. Teleprinters only allowed the use of upper case letters, and while the hardware and software used for weather forecasting has advanced over the last century, this holdover was carried into modern times since some customers still used the old equipment.


Senate Finance Committee Members Call for Effective Trade Enforcement to Combat Market-Distorting Policies

News Release: WASHINGTON- Members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee today called on U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to work to address global overcapacities in steel, aluminum, and other commodities and to ensure that the nation’s international trading partners...


News Release: Raphael Osborne (a.k.a. Gusto) Conspired to Murder and Assault Rival Gang Members, Commit Robberies, Murder a Federal Informant, and Distribute Controlled Substances.


News Release: Falsified taxpayer deductions. Owes Internal Revenue Service $255,938. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Jefferson County, Kentucky tax preparer pleaded guilty in United States District Court, on March 28, 2016, before Magistrate Judge Colin H. Lindsay, to aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, announced...


Charleston man sentenced to Federal prison for gun crime

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for a gun crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Richard Howard King II, 21, previously pleaded guilty in January 2016 to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.


Mass. Man Charged with Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor in Albany

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Rancourt, age 61, of Palmer, Massachusetts, was arrested and charged on Saturday with attempting to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex.