News published on Federal Newswire in March 2016

News from March 2016


The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a seven page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a six page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published an eight page proposed rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a nine page proposed rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


FMCSA Orders Shutdown of Wyoming Trucking Company

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Gillette, Wyoming-based Bar D Bar Trucking, LLC, USDOT No. 1701437, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation found the carrier to pose an imminent hazard to public safety. Bar D Bar Trucking was served the federal order on Mar. 11, 2016.


2015 U.S.-Based Airline Traffic Data

News Release: 2015 U.S.-Based Airline Traffic Data


January 2016 North American Freight Numbers

News Release: January 2016 North American Freight Numbers


Twenty Seven South End Alleged Gang Members Charged with Drug and Firearm Offenses

News Release: Boston - Twenty seven individuals, many of whom are affiliated with the Lenox Street Cardinals, and other street gangs operating in the Lenox Street Housing Development area of Boston’s South End, have been charged with federal and state drug and firearms offenses.


News Release: Operation Violence Reduction12 nabs most dangerous criminals.


Fourth Defendant Pleads Guilty in Connection with Scheme to Unlawfully Ship Firearms to Lebanon

News Release: Bassem Afif Herz, age 31, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids, to charges relating to a scheme to illegally ship firearms and ammunition to Lebanon.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Quantaz Lamar Shields, age 28, of Leonardtown, Maryland; and Trevone Damone Butler, age 25, of Lexington Park, Maryland, on charges that they conspired to rob businesses in St. Mary’s County. The indictment was returned on March 21, 2016 and unsealed today after Butler’s arrest. Shields is in custody on other charges.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On March 21, 2016, Cameron Carl Saraficio, 34, of Santa Cruz, Ariz., a member of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 139 months of imprisonment. Saraficio had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a deadly/dangerous weapon.


Former Tate County, Mississippi, Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced for Unlawful Tasing

News Release: WASHINGTON - Former Tate County, Mississippi, Lieutenant Randy T. Doss, 63, was sentenced to two years in prison today for unlawfully tasing a pretrial detainee, J.W., at the Tate County Jail. The tasing, which occurred in 2012, caused the victim to fall to the concrete floor and fracture his skull.


OSHA finds roofing contractor's safety failures led to one worker's death, another's severe injuries at Florida job site

News Release: ORANGE CITY, Fla. - Had their employer inspected an aerial lift properly, it might not have malfunctioned and surged forward, crushing one worker to death and severely injuring another as they removed rain gutters at a local car dealership on Sept. 30, 2015, investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration have determined.


News Release: ATLANTA - Ovino Harris has been sentenced to 10 years, 10 months in federal prison for attempting to rob the Wellesley Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel, in what was believed to be one of a string of ATM machine thefts in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.