News from August 2009
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Acadia National Park will begin its 15th annual HawkWatch season on Wednesday, August 19. Thousands of birds of prey, including falcons, hawks, ospreys and eagles, migrate through Acadia in the autumn. Each year thousands of park visitors join HawkWatch to see and learn more about these fascinating birds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Celebrate the National Park Service’s 93rd birthday with cake, a piñata for the kids, and the South Florida premiere of the new Ken Burns film This is America. Burns is America’s foremost documentary filmmaker, and his 6-part, 12-hour The National Parks: America’s Best Idea will premiere on public television...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Teachers Immersed in Lowell National Historical Park Resources.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Van Nuys, CA - Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today welcomed the Administration’s new initiative to review the U.S. export control system.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: The sequencing of the genome for an important parasitic wasp called Nasonia has been completed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators. Nasonia is a key experimental organism that's been used for genetic research for over half a century.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Thursday, Aug. 13, at approximately 8:10 a.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call from a National Park Service (NPS) river trip that a group had waved them down from the cliffs above the river near river mile 29 to report being out of water and in need of assistance. Shortly thereafter, an additional report was received that one member of the party was deceased.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The nighttime traffic delays on Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) will be expanded to the Loop to allow crews to prepare the stretch of road from Crystal Point to Haystack for paving in September. Starting Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, the Sun Road will be temporarily...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on end-of-life concerns and other concerns prompted by the House committee-passed health care legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2009
News Release: The first 1.3 mile of the 2.5 mile Lassen Peak Trail in Lassen Volcanic National Park is to open for the public on Friday, August 14. The popular trail has been closed since an accident that occurred on the afternoon of July 29. "The first 1.3 mile of Lassen Peak Trail to reopen will provide opportunities...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - In a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Technology International Inc. has developed a breakthrough borehole imaging system that stands on the cusp of commercialization. By pushing the limits of seismic-while-drilling technology, the patent-pending SeismicPULSER system provides more accurate geo-steering for the discovery of new oil and natural gas reserves, facilitating new field development and improving well economics.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Global Entry initiative—a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pilot program that streamlines the screening process at airports for trusted travelers through biometric identification—to 13 additional airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: A federal jury has found Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, of Roswell, Ga., guilty on all four counts of an indictment charging him with supporting terrorists and a foreign terrorist organization, after a trial that lasted seven days. The jury deliberated for approximately five hours before reaching the guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: Charles Brown, 54, of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced today to five years in prison and lifetime supervised release following his prison term for receiving child pornography. Brown was indicted on May 8, 2008, on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges arose after Brown responded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: Hayden B. Greene, 31, of Tulsa, Okla., and James Robert Roy, 42, of Tomball, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture and sell counterfeit pipe couplings.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic activity is leveling out. Conditions in financial markets have improved further in recent weeks. Household spending has continued to show signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: Thank you for having me here. Being the husband of Mona Lee, a former television journalist, I have to tell you, I feel right at home.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on the release of the June 2009 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s report showed that U.S. exports increased by 2 percent ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Now that Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been confirmed, I want to congratulate her for this achievement and for her grace under ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced that Dr. Esther Johnson, national director of Job Corps, will be leaving her position effective today. Dr. Johnson will undertake new duties as a senior advisor in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Labor. In her stead, Lynn Intrepidi, former director of the Philadelphia Region of Job Corps will become acting director of the program.
By State News Post | Aug 12, 2009
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
