News from August 2008
By USDA Wire | Aug 25, 2008
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Aug 25, 2008
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Aug 25, 2008
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Aug. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: Special Chance to See Fall Colors in the Black Canyon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: The public is invited to join the park staff for the opening of its new interpretive site “Tribal Connections" and the unveiling of the World Peace Sculpture “Wind Circle" on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. The new site will provide a venue for ranger programs discussing the connections with...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: BOULDER, Colo.-Physicist David J. Wineland of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over Medicare, made the following comment on a new report from the Government Accountability Office entitled, “Medicare Part D: Some Plan Sponsors Have Not Completely Implemented Fraud and Abuse Programs, and CMS Oversight Has Been Limited," GAO-08-760. The report is available at www.gao.gov.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: The following guest column appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on August 25th, 2008:
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: Volunteers Honored at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: On Aug. 19, 2008 a local sea kayak guiding company expressed concern to the National Park Service about unusually high water levels and standing waves at the mouth of Bear Glacier Lake, a popular sea kayaking destination in Resurrection Bay and Kenai Fjords National Park. Park staff flew over the Bear...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Hikers and mountaineers continued to search some of northwestern Montana’s most forbidding terrain early today in an effort to find a missing hiker in Glacier National Park’s backcountry. Search managers said they continued to hope that additional information would be discovered about the hiker’s whereabouts, but that, absent such a development, they would scale back the operation.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: A new "green" technology developed cooperatively by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and North Carolina State University (NC State) could lead to production of hydrogen from nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins sent a letter to the President today urging him to support Governor John Baldacci’s request for Public Assistance for Androscoggin, Cumberland and York Counties for the damages heavy rain, hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding caused in July and August. “Homes, businesses,...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2008
News Release: Dear Secretary Leavitt: The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Committee) has jurisdiction over the Medicare and Medicaid programs and, accordingly, a responsibility to the more than 80 million Americans who receive health care coverage under those programs to oversee the proper administration of the...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2008
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - An exhaustive search of remote areas in Glacier National Park through which an overdue hiker is thought to have passed continued today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2008
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - A search and rescue operation has entered the fourth day for a hiker who has been reported overdue in a planned hike that was to take him through nearly 100 miles of rugged terrain at the heart of Glacier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A Fresno, Calif., man was sentenced to 30 years in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for producing and distributing child pornography, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Sharon Kukhahn of Tacoma Falsely Claimed to Decode IRS Records WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred a Tacoma, Wash., woman from selling a tax scam, the Justice Department announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against SmallTownPapers, Inc. (STP) of Seattle, alleging that STP violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by terminating Frank Bonnin, an Air Force reservist, because of his military obligation to attend active duty training.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Defendants Used Multiple Web Sites to Sell Counterfeit Software Worth $2.5 Million WASHINGTON — Three defendants pleaded guilty today to selling counterfeit computer software on the Internet in violation ...
