News from March 2018
By DOT News Wire | Mar 6, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 6, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly requesting information on the decision to reject an application for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill blasted Teva Pharmaceutical Industries today, following the company’s repeated refusal to turn over information related to her committee investigation into the role opioid manufacturers and distributors play in the ongoing opioid public health crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. -- Federal and state agents have arrested 23 members and associates of the Ghostface Gangsters prison gang, which originated in the Cobb County, Georgia jail in 2000, and has since spread through Georgia jails, prisons, and beyond. A federal grand jury returned a 21-count indictment on Feb. 8, 2018, which was recently unsealed. The crimes alleged in the indictment range from wire fraud to murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer Michael Mazar, 39, of Hollywood, pled guilty in connection with a mail and wire fraud scheme orchestrated from a Miami federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, woman was charged today with possessing a weapon as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging KENNETH MIX, 59, of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, with one count of making a false statement.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: The Christiansted National Historic Site will be replacing the Wharf Bulkhead along the harbor front of the Historic Site. Engineering and design phase to determine the appropriate materials, skirting and bulkhead construction method is underway. The project will replace the existing bulkhead structure and provide a newly constructed bulkhead for waterfront access, increased storm protection and emergency vessel response access.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: The Olympic Games may have cooled off, but the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge is just starting to heat up. The second round of finalists for this global competition have officially been chosen, so get ready to watch teams from around the world compete to design the next big thing in renewable energy.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Over the weekend, Fox News reported on the Taylor Force Act and U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meeting last week with the family and classmates of Taylor Force, a Vanderbilt University graduate student who was killed in a terrorist ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on March 2, 2018, United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Kassandra Martin, age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to 60 months’ imprisonment, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar recently visited the Savannah River Site (SRS) to learn more about site operations and the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tyler Hargrave, age 19, of Massena, New York, was arrested today in connection with an indictment charging him with the transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Resident Agent in Charge Russell Linstad, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Massena, New York, and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Louis, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a sex trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brennan McNeil, age 26, of Albany, New York, pled guilty yesterday to sexually exploiting a child for the purpose of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Colby Isaac Hilleary (24, Greenville, Texas) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interfering with the duties of a flight attendant. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
Release: LOS ANGELES - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in partnership with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro) today tested a new passenger screening technology that is designed to detect suicide vests and other metallic and non-metallic weapons concealed in a person’s clothing in a busy transportation environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., area man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Good morning, Secretary Acosta, and welcome to your second appropriations hearing before this subcommittee. It is fitting that labor is the first hearing we will hold for FY 2019-because for the past year under this Administration, working families have been under an all-out assault. We have witnessed both the elimination of worker protections and the unraveling of the social safety net.
