News from March 2018
By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Please see below a statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation regarding the omnibus spending legislation passed by the House of Representatives today:

By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: January 2018 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

By DOT News Wire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: 2017 Traffic Data for U.S Airlines and Foreign Airlines U.S. Flights

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use. However, the “For Lease" sign isn’t on some quiet suburban street, along a beachfront vista, or any physical location at all. It’s posted in...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Damian Lamont Swindle, 38, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 108 months in prison, following his conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon. In addition, U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist imposed a three-year term of supervised release that will begin when Swindle is release from prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Fairbanks man has been indicted for willfully misapplying over $300,000 from an organization receiving federal funds, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Waylon Lee Williams, age 37, of Stilwell, Oklahoma; Chassidy Dawn Burke, age 36, of Stilwell, Oklahoma; Jesse Ryan Catron, age 37, of Stilwell, Oklahoma; Evonnie Marie Simmons, age 38, of Stilwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Jay Forster, Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA office in Springfield, Missouri, today announced that Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) operation “Cash Cab" resulted in a 30 year prison sentence for the leader of this drug trafficking (DTO). Patrick Brigaudin, 55, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former Hampton Police Officer was arrested yesterday in Idaho on charges of conspiring to distribute narcotics and tampering with a witness.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - As part of the Administration’s priority to make America safe through energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments as it considers offering approximately 21,762 acres of federal oil and gas leases in eastern Colorado in the upcoming Sept. 6, 2018, competitive oil and gas lease sale.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - In response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ call for a 45-day surge in opioid-related enforcement, Drug Enforcement (DEA) investigations have led to the arrest of multiple defendants in relation to deadly opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Carson City man made his initial appearance today in federal court on charges related to kidnapping and assaulting a woman after holding her hostage during a 12-hour armed standoff with law enforcement on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after passage of a bill to fund the federal government for Fiscal Year 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that it reached an agreement with four skilled nursing facilities and two consulting companies with which they contracted to resolve allegations of fraudulent billing of Medicare for the provision of skilled therapy to Medicare...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON Ky. - Two Nicholasville, Ky., men were indicted today for using social media to post a false threat about a prospective shooting at one or more Jessamine County schools and for using social media to harass and intimidate an individual victim with those same threats.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).

By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement on the passage of the Taylor Force Act as part of the 2018 omnibus appropriations bill...