News from March 2016
By Labor Gazette | Mar 2, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 2, 2016
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a final rule that explicitly bans the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights. The final rule applies to all scheduled flights of U.S. and foreign carriers involving transportation in, to, and from the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a 10-count indictment charging Johnny Beltre, 32, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bennie Kyle, 60, of Fairmont, West Virginia, pled guilty to cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Trey Mitchell, age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for attempted distribution of heroin using a cell phone smuggled into the Orleans Parish Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site will host an entrance fee-free week to celebrate National Park Week from Saturday, April 16 through Sunday, April 24. This year is the National Park Service's centennial, and we invite your family to "Find Your Park." All indoor and outdoor exhibit areas and park museum facilities including guided tours and the park movie, "Steel and Steam," are included in the entrance fee-free week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Michael C. Neece, 71, of Ozark, Missouri, was sentenced last week in federal district court in East St. Louis for the crime of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a Roanoke man who previously pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke to federal drug and gun charges.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it has issued payment to 18 counties in western Oregon eligible under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act extension. The funding includes approximately $35.5 million in monies for Fiscal Year 2015. In April 2015, the Secure...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Zachary O’Brien, age 31, of Bronx, New York, today to four years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to use counterfeit credit cards to purchase merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Ozark, Mo., man and a Greene County, Mo., man were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to avoid paying more than $585,000 in federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, THURMAN STANCIL, 69, and HAROLD DEVON SCARBORO, 25, both of Middlesex, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, cocaine base (crack), and marijuana. As part of his plea, STANCIL agreed to forfeit real property located at 357 Barns Lake Road, Middlesex, NC. Both men face a maximum of twenty years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that an investigation into a recent drug overdose in Weston has resulted in federal oxycodone distribution charges against two Hamden residents.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for holding this important hearing this morning on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 2017 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Justice Department filed a lawsuit today alleging that the Richmond City Sheriff’s Office fired a former deputy sheriff after failing to reassign her to a vacant position for which she was qualified, in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment for the installation of a non-native predatory fish escapement net in Elkhead Reservoir located near Craig, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Romanian citizen today admitted orchestrating an international hacking scheme targeting retailers, security companies, medical offices and individuals in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Allegheny County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, on charges of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with a witness by threat of physical force, and brandishing, using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after hearing oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, the first major Supreme Court case involving restrictions on women’s access to abortion in more than two decades.
