News from September 2008
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
News Release: Join San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in celebrating West Coast Hispanic Heritage with a presentation entitled Spanish Explorers in Early California. This special program will be offered aboard the park’s 1886 square-rigged ship Balclutha on Sunday, September 21 at 3pm. Additionally, the program will be offered on Saturday Oct. 26, and Saturday November 1 at 3pm.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - At a Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) asked members of the medical care community how the health care system can do more to provide patients with more effective, higher quality care. Baucus said developing a system that reimburses doctors and other health...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
Release: A bill to amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or average crop revenue election payments when the sum of the base acres of a farm is 10 acres or less, and for other purposes.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced today that Androscoggin, Cumberland, and York Counties are eligible for public assistance following a Presidential major disaster declaration for the State of Maine. The declaration releases federal funds to help local communities recover from the severe storms they...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
News Release: SEP 9 -- (Baltimore, MD) - On September 5, 2008, Toby Thomas, age 34, and Rose Johnson, age 31, both of Frederick, Maryland were charged by complaint today with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, after law enforcement searched their residence early this morning and seized items used to produce methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2008
News Release: Contact: Marc Morano (202) 224-5762 Marc_Morano@EPW.senate.gov Matt Dempsey (202) 224-9797 Matthew_Dempsey@EPW.senate.gov Opening Statement of Senator James Inhofe Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing on Economic Development Administration Oversight Tuesday, September 9, 2008 ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: Passport To Your National Parks® Photo Contest.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Report Provides Consumers, Businesses, and Policy Makers with Analysis of Single-firm Conduct Under the Antitrust Laws WASHINGTON - The Department today issued a report informing consumers, businesses and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - A federal district court in Las Vegas has sentenced tax defier Irwin Schiff to 11 months in prison for criminal contempt, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on Sept. 9, 2008, it will monitor the primary elections in New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens Counties, N.Y., to ensure compliance with federal voting rights statutes, and specifically the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The girlfriend of a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her participation in a racketeering enterprise, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Edward M. Yarbrough for the Middle District of Tennessee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against Darwin Kenneth Morgan and his company DK Morgan Consolidated LLC, for violating the Fair Housing Act in the rental of mobile homes and mobile home lots at Morgan Mobile Home Park in Bloomingdale, Ga.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker, and other senior officials of the Department of Justice (DOJ) met today ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A resident of Malaysia was sentenced today to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge that arose from an international fraud scheme to "hack" into online brokerage accounts in the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 First National Settlement to Reduce Emissions from Cement Plants WASHINGTON— Two companies that own and operate a Portland cement manufacturing facility near Dixon, Ill., have agreed to install state-of-the-art ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 8, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON—Abner J. Schultz, a resident of Lake Havasu, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Pocatello, Idaho for a criminal violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) related to unlawful dredge and fill work along the Salmon River, the Justice Department announced.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board has approved amendments to Appendix A of Regulation CC that reflect the restructuring of the Federal Reserve's check processing operations in the Sixth District.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: On September 8, 2008, the Federal Reserve will offer $25 billion in 84-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Additional information regarding the auction is listed below; the auction will be conducted as specified in this announcement, Regulation A, and the terms and conditions of the Term Auction Facility (www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm).
By Commerce News Now | Sep 8, 2008
News Release: Thank you Dan and Michael and Mr. Ambassador, thank you for your kind words. Mr. Certelli and Mr. Sovasi thank you very much for your presence and your remarks. As you know, I had the privilege, you may know some time ago, to represent President Bush at the inauguration of President Saakashvili in January of this year in Tbilisi.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 8, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
