WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news on Sept. 5, 2024: * * * The project, supported by the Biden-Harris Administration's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is key to Amtrak's new era of passenger rail * * * OLD LYME, Conn. - Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner today joined U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, Representative Joe Co  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Roberto Coviello, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, today announced that LAKSHMI BET  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YOAN MANUAL DELACRUZ, also known as "Oreja," 33, citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment for trafficking fentanyl. Accordin  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILSON GUZMAN, JR., 40, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford 36 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for distributing various drugs on Telegram, an encrypted phone messaging a  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHYTE, also known as "Jak Mac," 50, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 195 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics trafficking, money laundering,   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DUPREY, also known as "Red" and "Colorado," 53, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 141 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for trafficking kilograms of cocaine  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW LONDON, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHYTE, also known as "Jak Mac," 50, of New London, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 195 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics traffickin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced the immediate availability of $3 million in "quick release" Emergency Relief (ER) funds for the Connecticut Department of Transportation to offset the costs of repairs of roads and bridges damaged by historic rainfall and flooding in August. "The emergency funding we're sending to Connecticut will help reop  more