News from October 2018
By DOT News Wire | Oct 1, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 1, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Oct 1, 2018
The US Agriculture Department published a four page proposed rule on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Oct 1, 2018
The US Agriculture Department published a three page proposed rule on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao was today joined by Congressman Steve Knight (CA-25) at a formal grant announcement marking the award of $47,000,000 to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the Interstate 5 Golden State Chokepoint Relief Program. The funding is provided through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) discretionary grant program.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao was joined today by Governor Bruce Rauner (R-IL) and members of the Illinois congressional delegation for a grant announcement marking the award of $132,034,680 to the Illinois Department of Transportation. The award funds the 75th ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma Grantees Awarded Nearly $6 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months in jail and ordered to make $225,000 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: On Sept. 28, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks sentenced Matthew Geoffrey Larson, 26, of West Palm Beach, to over 7.5 years in prison following his bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Norman Torrey, 53, of Lewiston, Maine pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James W. Pilsner, age 60, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, former Vice President of Rite Aid, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to vendor kick-back and tax evasion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A federal jury has convicted a McNairy county man for conspiring to distribute, and distributing actual methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Charles Davis, III, age 46, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2018, to three years’ imprisonment and to serve four years on supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shane Browne, 28, formerly of Beverly Hills, Calif., has been sentenced to a prison term of 14 years and eight months on charges stemming from the kidnapping of a Lyft driver last December, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced nine new partners to its Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) initiative, an innovative collaboration between the FAA and the drone industry that provides near real-time processing of airspace authorizations for Part 107 drone operators nationwide who fly in controlled airspace.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of Tuesday’s expected Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee markup of a bill permanently reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which expired Sept. 30, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said today that Republican leaders are responsible for the program’s expiration and shouldn’t hold the program hostage in the lame duck session between the Nov. 6 elections and the end of the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Tomacita Nez, 41, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 72 months’ prison followed by three years’ supervised release. Nez had previously pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chesapeake, Virginia, man was arrested at Richmond International Airport early this morning, Oct. 1 after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Daniel Hunter, 54, of Enfield, Connecticut, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for robbing two Dollar Tree stores-one in the Town of North Greenbush, New York, and the other in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-in May 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Chinese national who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that illegally exported sensitive space communications technology to China was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison.
