News from May 2016
By DOT News Wire | May 25, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 25, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 25, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 25, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 25, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page proposed rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a $200 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to finance the construction of additional lanes and improvements on New Hampshire’s I-93 from Salem to Manchester.
By DOT News Wire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Countries agree to collaborate on autonomous vehicles and transportation related issues
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Over two weeks in the spring of 1864, Confederate and Union forces engaged in one of the largest battles of the Civil War 10 miles outside Richmond at a rural crossroads known as Cold Harbor. On Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5, Richmond National Battlefield Park invites the public to experience the...
By State Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the release of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist, Khadija Ismayilova...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that two Milwaukee men were sentenced for a series of carjackings that occurred in Greenfield and Oak Creek, Wisconsin in August 2015. The superseding indictment charged Devonte Hayes (age: 19) and Norman Howard (age: 18) with attempted motor...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Michael Lanell Easley, Jr., 36, of Portsmouth, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David A. Capp, announced that Zachary Berkshire, 32, of Valparaiso, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Rudy Lozano for one count of enticement of a minor child and two counts of production of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel Gates on Friday, May 27, 2016, at approximately 9 a.m. for the Memorial Day weekend. The
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: On April 28, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Northeastern States District (NSD) released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA), addressing proposed oil and gas leasing of federally-managed minerals within the Wayne National Forest, in Monroe, Noble, and Washington Counties, Ohio. The comment...
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Mike Crapo, R-Idaho; and Jim Risch, R-Idaho released draft legislation aimed at improving forest management and wildfire budgeting. The bipartisan discussion draft reflects the work of the Senate Energy and Natural ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5233, the Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for DC Home Rule Act of 2016, sponsored by Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC). The bill explicitly repeals the Local Budget Autonomy Act of 2012 to ensure continued congressional involvement in the District’s budget process and prevents future attempts by the District to unilaterally alter the budget process.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assaulting, Opposing, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer; Assault with a Dangerous Weapon; Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury; two counts of Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence; two counts of Child Abuse; and Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Following an eight-day trial, a jury before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez convicted Rafael Duran, a former police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and seven counts of wire fraud. Duran had been employed as an officer with the MDPD from May 1994 until March 2016, when the MDPD terminated him following his 2015 indictment in this case.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the State Department Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report released today evaluating the agency’s policies, specifically in the Office of the Secretary, regarding email records and cybersecurity requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a report issued by the Inspector General of the State Department on the email practices of several previous Secretaries of State...
