News from December 2008
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2008
News Release: Now that the snow has arrived, join a National Park Ranger on snowshoes and explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in all of its winter splendor! Snowshoe walks are offered every Saturday beginning Dec. 27, and continue through the end of February or later, if conditions permit. In addition...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: A recently updated National Park Service study estimates that the economic benefit of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for the local community is over $20 million annually, and reports that the combination of visitor spending and NPS payrolls supports a total of 449 jobs in our local community.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: Senate Homeland Security Ranking Member Susan Collins today announced that merchant mariners, longshoremen, and truckers in Maine who have not already obtained a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) needed to access secure areas of ports and vessels will now have additional opportunities...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Operation Had Connections to Miami WASHINGTON – A U.S. citizen charged in connection with the operation of a series of fraudulent business opportunities was arrested yesterday in Costa Rica following his indictment by a Miami federal grand jury on Nov. 20, 2008, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A former Supreme Court Justice of the Third Judicial Circuit of the State of New York was charged today with attempted extortion and federal program bribery, Acting Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV EOIR (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has announced the appointment of David L. Neal as Vice Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), effective January 5, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today sued Earnest A. Cooper and B.C. Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Aristocrat Towing, for alleged violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by towing Navy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — A Tokyo executive of a rubber products manufacturing company pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two years in jail and to pay an $80,000 criminal fine for participating in two conspiracies ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – An Arizona man was sentenced today to 220 months in prison after he was previously convicted on multiple child pornography charges, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the proposal by Banco Santander, S.A., Madrid, Spain, to acquire all the voting shares of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc., Philadelphia, and thereby indirectly acquire its subsidiary federal savings bank, Sovereign Bank, Wyomissing, both of Pennsylvania. Attached is the Board's Order relating to this action.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez released the following statement on Human Rights Day: “On Human Rights Day, it is important to remember the plight of the Cuban people, who live under a totalitarian dictatorship that has denied them human rights for almost half a century. The Castro regime prevents its citizens from having an elected and democratic government, freedom of speech andfundamentalhuman rights.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 10, 2008
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By State News Post | Dec 10, 2008
The US State Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 10, 2008
The US Labor Department published a four page rule on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2008
The US Interior Department published a seven page proposed rule on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
