Washington Federal News

WASHINGTON - Federal safety officials say downdrafts probably caused the plane crash that killed entrepreneur Steve Fossett nearly two years ago.

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend. U.S. Park Police arrested the current D.C. councilman on Saturday on a stalking charge after they said a woman complained she was being stalked.

WASHINGTON - Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb-making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing today.

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators will examine whether the government should impose limits on the number of futures contracts in oil and other energy commodities held by speculative traders, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday.

After the bell yesterday, General Mills announced its quarterly dividend of $0.47 per share.

County Manager Tom Stewart told commissioners last week that the chairman and chief operating officer of Washington Federal savings offered the donation from the company's foundation to smooth over its mistake in asking the county treasurer to remove all public dollars from their bank.

WASHINGTON -- Federal money to spur economic recovery is being shoveled out of Washington at a fast clip, the White House said Thursday, but states aren't steering the cash to counties that need jobs the most.

WASHINGTON Federal safety officials said Thursday they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned, including one that took place ten days before the same type of plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 aboard.

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities indicted 53 people on Wednesday for schemes to cheat Medicare out of $50 million.

WASHINGTON - Federal election officials will have a hand in writing the script on Sen.

WASHINGTON Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed tightened rules for money-market mutual funds that will require them to hold a reserve of assets that could be easily sold and to invest only in the highest quality securities.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators charged a New York brokerage firm said to be secretly controlled by Bernard Madoff and a California investment adviser with securities fraud, accusing them yesterday of funneling billions of dollars from investors into Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

WASHINGTON - Federal investigators are looking for recorders or other devices that could tell them how fast a Washington subway train was going when it plowed into another train, killing nine and injuring scores of others during the height of Monday's afternoon rush hour.

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors cited problems with evidence Monday when they asked a judge to drop charges against a Chinese-Mexican businessman accused of importing large amounts of methamphetamines to the United States.

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Monday charged a New York brokerage firm and a California investment adviser with securities fraud, accusing them of funneling billions of dollars from investors into Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

WASHINGTON Federal investigators say the government's next generation radiation detectors are only marginally better at detecting hidden nuclear material than monitors already at U.S. ports, but would cost more than twice as much.

WASHINGTON -- Federal lawmakers chastised Indianapolis-based WellPoint and other insurance companies Tuesday for what they called the 'vicious' and 'inexcusable' practice of retroactively canceling coverage after customers start submitting claims.

Washington - Federal regulators on Tuesday reached a settlement with disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff that prohibits him from working in the securities industry.

WASHINGTON - Federal aviation regulators and airlines Monday agreed to take emergency actions to improve safety at regional carriers in response to concerns over poor piloting and fatigue in recent accidents.

WASHINGTON Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk of sudden death.