News from April 2009
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: Special programs and discounted boat tours make April the perfect month to explore the park. Program highlights include.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, won assurances today from the nominee for IRS Commissioner to try to hire 1,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for agency positions during the upcoming fiscal year.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks Superintendent Dan Kimball announced recently that the National Park Service is requesting public comment on a proposal to establish camping fees for 40 campsites in T Loop within the Flamingo campground, once these sites are upgraded with electrical hook-ups. The popular Flamingo campground is located at the extreme southern tip of the park approximately 38 miles south of the Homestead main entrance.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers regarding the framework established by the Administration for the Public Private Investment Program (PPIP).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: (Ninety Six, SC) Over 2,000 visitors heard the cannon boom and muskets echo across the battlefields during Revolutionary War Days at Ninety Six National Historic Site. The National Park site held the freeevent on Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, which turned out to be beautiful sunny days. Over 190 reenactors helped visitors experience life during Colonial times.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to moving the nation toward energy independence, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has contracted with the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to help it develop an interim "roadmap" for determining the architecture and initial key standards for an electric power "Smart Grid".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: Patchogue, New York- Fire Island National Seashore will mark National Park Week with a "March for Parks" tour and other hikes, and a special Junior Ranger workshop. "This is our chance to welcome visitors back to the park as we prepare for another busy summer season," said Superintendent Chris Soller...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: The National Park Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the 2009 Junior Ranger Essay Contest, asking youth across the country to share their big ideas on how to protect and preserve America’s National Parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Gerard Baker named Don Hart the newest Chief Ranger at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Don Hart began his new position on Monday, March 16, 2009 after seven years as one of the park’s supervisory rangers in the Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services Division. As Chief Ranger, Don will be leading a staff of approximately twenty people who manage emergency services, visitor and resource protection, and special use permits in thepark.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – As homeowners and communities throughout the country continue to face devastating consequences from the deep contraction in the economy and the housing market, the Obama Administration today announced a new coordinated effort across federal and state government and the private sector to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on April 7, 2009, it will monitor the election in Kane County, Ill., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former senior executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), Andrew Bodnar, pleaded guilty for his role in BMS’s dishonest dealings with the federal government relating to a patent deal involving the popular blood-thinning drug Plavix, the Department of Justice announced today. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Iranian national has been arrested and charged, along with ten other defendants, with participating in a conspiracy to export U.S.-made military aircraft parts to Iran, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Consultores De Navegacion, a Spanish company that operates the M/T Nautilus, an ocean-going chemical tanker ship, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston and has agreed to pay a fine of $2.5 million for criminal violations related to the overboard discharge of oil-contaminated bilge waste on the high seas, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Jorge Flores-Rojas, 44, an undocumented Mexican national, was sentenced to 24 years in prison by Chief Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. in Charlotte, N.C., for two counts of sex trafficking of minors and one count of interstate transportation of an adult for purposes of commercial sex, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Edward R. Ryan of the Western District of North Carolina.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among United Security Bancshares, Inc., Woodstock, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Banking Commissioner of the State of Georgia.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Community Bankshares, Inc., a registered bank holding company, Community Banks of Colorado, a state chartered member bank, both of Greenwood Village, Colorado, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas, Missouri, and the Colorado Division of Banking, Denver, Colorado.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank announce swap arrangements The Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing swap arrangements that ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 6, 2009
News Release: On April 6, 2009, the Federal Reserve will offer $150 billion in 28-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).
