News from February 2016
By Commerce News Now | Feb 5, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: OST-R and FHWA Release Final Reports on Novel Surface Transportation Modes - In partnership with Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R), the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program has released a report documenting an initial ...
By DOT News Wire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today announced its latest estimate of traffic deaths, which show a steep 9.3 percent increase for the first nine months of 2015. The news comes as the agency kicks-off its first in a series of regional summits with ...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: A first-ever interlaboratory study of four versions of a therapeutic protein drug-all manufactured from living cells-reports that an established analytical tool akin to magnetic resonance imaging reliably assessed the atomic structures of the biologically similar products, yielding the equivalent of a fingerprint for each.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Four former Shelby County Corrections Deputies have all been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to smuggle and distribute OxyContin inside a correctional facility. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Feb. 6 marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI join U.S. and foreign government partners, non-governmental organizations and local communities to call for eradication of the practice.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the appointment of 157 producers and three importers to the 2016 National Pork Producers Delegate Body. The appointees were selected from nominees submitted by state pork producer association and importer groups and will serve a 1-year term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: $10 Million Resort Timeshare Telemarketing Fraud Conspiracy Victimized Persons Over Age 55 - Dozens of Victims in Texas and Thousands in the U.S. and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant is One of 34 Individuals Charged as Part of Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA -The National Park Service (NPS) this week released its Fiscal Year 2015 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.9 billion nationwide total was up from the $11.49 billion reported at the end of FY2014. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parkalso has a backlog of deferred maintenance projects which totals $49,490,189.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced the finalization of a new policy for defining and designating critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Chairman Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The alleged head governor of FAM Mob, a violent street gang based throughout North Memphis and Shelby County, has been sentenced to 120 months for felony firearm possession. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentencing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury on Friday convicted Charles McCormick, Jr., age 22, of Schenectady, New York, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that yesterday afternoon Jose Alfredo Felix, Jr., a/k/a “Smiley"; Benjamin Andrew Hinson; Penny Leigh Pilgrim; and Christine Nicole Snelson, each have entered a guilty plea in federal court in Anderson, to Conspiring to Pass Counterfeit...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Obama Administration’s commitment on new assistance to Colombia...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that a criminal complaint was filed against David Victor, 23, of Merrillville, Indiana; Ellisa Salazar, 22, of Griffith and Julian Rebeles, 24, of Hammond, for attempting to provide or possess contraband in prison.
