News from October 2022

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Braintree man was sentenced yesterday for trafficking cocaine and illegally possessing ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Possession of a Glock Switch. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand this week indicted a man on gun charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French. A two-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - A Lake Worth, Fla., man who pretended to be a teenage boy to get a 13-year-old girl in South Carolina to send him nude videos of herself was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release on charges of production of child sexual exploitation material.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Raheem Tyler, 24, of Manchester, was sentenced today to 34 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.

By Bob Pepalis | Oct 27, 2022
Zoë Baird has been appointed senior counselor to the secretary for technology and economic growth.

By John Kelly | Oct 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management donated 253,500 pounds of food for people in need in the Feds Feed Families summer campaign.

By Bob Pepalis | Oct 27, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently announced plans for the United States to impose a new round of sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials and on the country's gold industry.

By Karen Kidd | Oct 27, 2022
U.S. Department of Agriculture announced almost $800 million to distressed farm loan borrowers to keep farmers and ranchers producing.

By Andy Nghiem | Oct 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration announced $50 million in quick release Emergency Relief funds has been made available to the Florida Department of Transportation as a down payment to offset the costs of construction to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Ian earlier this month.

By Laurie A. Luebbert | Oct 27, 2022
Although peace talks over the Tigray conflict are close to happening, the situation is still dire enough the Department of Homeland Security granted temporary protected status to Ethiopia for 18 months.

By Laurie A. Luebbert | Oct 27, 2022
The McInnis Canyons and Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Areas in Utah will have a new manager.

By Tamara Browning | Oct 27, 2022
A New York man has been indicted for fentanyl pill conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jason T. Cawley, age 44, owner of J. Cawley Moving, located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2022, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 2 years’ probation, including 6 months of home confinement with electronic monitoring, for failing to collect and pay over several years’ worth of required federal payroll taxes.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
Release: The United States condemns the October 25 verdict against Hong Kong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, founder of the Apple Daily newspaper, on spurious fraud charges.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
Release: BILLINGS, Montana - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began screening travelers earlier today in a relocated security checkpoint at Billings Logan International Airport (BIL). The new checkpoint, located on the second floor of the terminal, is part of a five-phase, multi-year terminal expansion project underway at BIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence man currently on bail while awaiting trial in Rhode Island state court on drug trafficking charges, and who is also currently on probation in four separate state court cases, has been ordered detained in federal custody as the result of an unrelated FBI Safe Street Task...
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Special Presidential Coordinator Amos Hochstein will travel to Lebanon today to finalize the historic agreement to establish a permanent maritime boundary between Lebanon and Israel. In Beirut, Hochstein will meet with President Michel Aoun, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, and Prime Minister Najib ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas “Tommy" Squires, age 37, of Cairo, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity with him. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).