News from February 2016
By Labor Gazette | Feb 8, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 8, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 8, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that seventy-seven cities have submitted applications for the first-of-its-kind U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge. Medium-sized cities from across the country from Reno to Rochester and Anchorage to Albuquerque represent ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Dinosaur, CO -The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on a draft management plan to restrict or remove exotic Rocky Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus, herein referred to as mountain goats) in Dinosaur National Monument, located in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KASAM HENNIX, 42, of Easton, Pa., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 171 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a violent kidnapping and jewelry store robbery in April 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Christopher B. Pitts, 46, a Georgia resident who was previously an attorney practicing in Montgomery, Alabama was arrested today after being indicted on Feb. 2, 2016 for nine counts of wire fraud, announced George Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a hearing this Wednesday on air traffic control reform proposals and H.R. 4441, the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act (the AIRR Act).

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Andracos Marshall, a/k/a “Draco," age 41, of Bowie, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and for money laundering conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina- A 67-year-old Argentinean wanted in connection with the unsolved murder of a juvenile in Argentina was removed Jan. 22 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Alexandria, Louisiana.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Alfred Patterson, age 50, of Baltimore, Maryland, late last Friday, February 5, 2016, for robbing a drug dealer and using a gun during the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: HOPE Initiative Partners to Discuss Educating New Mexico’s Youth About the Perils of Heroin and Opioid Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOSEPH DEL VALLE, an owner and partner of various investment companies, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges for operating two fraudulent schemes that resulted in more than $5 million in investor losses. DEL VALLE pled guilty to a four-count Indictment before United States District Judge Richard M. Berman.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 40-year-old man has been arrested following the filing of a criminal complaint alleging he robbed a post office and brandished a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Theodore Robert, 41, a former police officer with the South Bend, Indiana, Police Department (SBPD), pleaded guilty today in federal court to violating the civil rights of an arrestee.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brian K. Dixon, 47, of Clarksburg, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Juan Pedro Jimenez, 40, of Mexico, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute, manufacturing, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation on Chowchilla Mountain in Mariposa County in the Sierra National Forest in Mariposa County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Arizona man was sentenced Monday to 5 years in federal prison for driving 12 pounds of methamphetamine from Arizona to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.