News from October 2017
By Commerce News Now | Oct 6, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) today announced it is issuing three separate hazardous materials training related grants totaling $23,870,045. The grants are part of PHMSA’s comprehensive approach to improving the safe transportation of hazardous materials across the country.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released fatal traffic crash data for calendar year 2016. According to NHTSA data, which was collected from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 37,461 lives were lost on U.S. roads in 2016, an increase of 5.6 percent from calendar year 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it is making it easier for North Carolina schools affected by Hurricane Florence to feed students during this time of great need. All students in affected disaster areas in North Carolina will now be able to enjoy free...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jacob Brewer and Michelle Phipps were arrested today on an Indictment charging them with removing aluminum braces from railroad cars owned by Ameren UE.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael R. Bush, age 49, of Fort Edward, New York, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison following his guilty plea to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that William D. Flowers, 26, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Flowers pleaded guilty to this charge on July 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 30-year-old Lubbock, Texas, woman, Kandi F. Phillips, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to serve 97 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in May 2017 to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A defendant charged in the case involving the armed standoff in Bunkerville, Nev. pleaded guilty today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division, and Acting Director Michael D. Nedd for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRANDON SMITH, age 29, and CHELSIE WILLIAMS, age 24, both of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that William D. Flowers, 26, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Flowers pleaded guilty to this charge on July 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant, the Victim’s Former Boyfriend, is Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison; Plea Agreement Requires Him to Aid Police in Locating Her Body.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Used Explosive Device to Blow-up Empty Car Outside Home.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Bureau of Reclamation conducted a draft Environmental Assessment regarding the proposed transfer of title for approximately 78 miles of irrigation drains and certain federal facilities to the Pioneer Irrigation District and the City of Caldwell in Canyon County. As part of the NEPA process, Reclamation is seeking public comment on the draft assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Howieson, 56, of Costilla, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in Albuquerque, N.M., to a year and a day in prison for his conviction on a federal carjacking charge. Howieson will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence.
