WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 11, 2025 NAVY Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, was awarded a $114,162,885 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-6117 to exercise options for the Navy's procurement of hardware to support sound navigation and ranging systems. Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia (65%); Clearwater, Florida (32%); Syracuse, Ne  more

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: Kyle Taylor, age 29, of Malden, Massachusetts, was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Bryan Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Divi  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: * * * Defendants Conspired to Fill Fake Prescriptions for Oxycodone Pills Written by a Doctor's Receptionist and Distributed to Street Drug Dealers for Cash * * * Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts against licensed pharmacists Yousef Ennab and Mohamed Hassan on all counts of a superseding indictment charging them with conspirac  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. AB 180X) entitled "Lowville and Beaver River Railroad Co. - Abandonment Exemption - In Lewis County, New York": * * * The Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Company (LBRR) filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. part 1152 subpart F--Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 10.57 mile rail line extending from milepost 0.0 in Lowville, N.Y., to milepost 10.57/1 i  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. AB 768X) entitled "Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad Corp. - Abandonment Exemption - In Lewis and Jefferson Counties, New York": * * * Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern Railroad Corporation (MAN) filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. part 1152 subpart F--Exempt Abandonments to abandon (1) an approximately 16-mile rail line that runs between milep  more