News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
The US Interior Department published an eight page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 25, 2016
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 25, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 25, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: December 2015 North American Freight Numbers

By DOT News Wire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $1 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to the Arkansas Department of Highway and Transportation Department (AHDT) to help repair roads and bridges damaged by heavy rains and flooding last month.

By DOT News Wire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau today joined Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla and Puerto Rico Secretary of Transportation and Public Works Miguel Torres Díaz for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ...
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Coinciding with ‘END IT’ week to help shine a light on slavery and human trafficking, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday convened a hearing featuring leading advocates and survivors who urged the U.S. to pursue a greater leadership ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Orleans man pleaded guilty to possessing dozens of fake credit and debit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mykhaylo Botsvynyuk, 38, and Yaroslav Churuk, 48, both of Ukraine, were each sentenced today to 20 years in prison for their roles in a human trafficking enterprise. The brothers were convicted at trial, on Feb. 24, 2015, of conspiracy to violate RICO, in relation to several predicate...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold two informational meetings to explain and discuss the proposed C Flume Replacement Project. Each of the informal open. house meetings will present the same information. The public is welcome to attend either or both meetings. The meetings will...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: First Bank building included in park's more than $49 million in deferred maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Thi Nguyen, 40, of West Seneca, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to collect extension of credit by extortion, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At a hearing today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, both Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings expressed full support for President Obama’s nomination of Beth Cobert as Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), rejecting GOP Senator David Vitter’s announcement today that he is blocking Cobert’s nomination.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The National Park Service (NPS) has announced a 30-day public comment period seeking input on changes to the scope of the Bison Management Plan at Grand Canyon National Park.The focus of the planning effort will shift from development of a long-term management plan for North Rim bison to initial herd reduction.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that 12 members of a drug trafficking organization have been charged with distributing street-level quantities of heroin in the Orlando area. A criminal complaint has been unsealed charging Steven Joseph Malham (55, Orlando), Angel...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jerrick Blake, 22, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Las Cruces, N.M., to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his voluntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Samin Chang, 38, of New York, NY, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, today on charges that he allegedly participated in a conspiracy to house numerous sophisticated indoor marijuana grow operations inside a converted Providence mill building and a Providence residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramiro Saenz, 28, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 72 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) to evaluate a range of alternatives to address changes to access and visitor safety brought about by Hurricane Sandy at Fort Tilden Beach, Queens, New York. It examines potential impacts of three action alternatives and a no-action...