News from August 2009
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2009
News Release: RANGERS RESCUE 6 FROM LAKE MEAD.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2009
News Release: At 1:30 p.m. today, August 8, 2009, the Grand County Sheriff’s office received a 911 call and passed the information on to Rocky Mountain National Park dispatch. A 32 year old male, hometown unknown, had a 20 foot tumbling, sliding fall near the summit of Mount Ida. He suffered a broken leg and cuts...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: DHS Press Office, 202-282-8010 HHS Press Office, 202-690-6343 DOE Press Office, 202-591-6734 Updated federal guidelines offer state and local public health and school officials a range of options for responding to 2009 H1N1 influenza in schools, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 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 approximately $42 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for the construction of new inline baggage handling systems at ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: Two dual Afghan/U.S. citizens today pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to offer $1 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: Miami physician Keith Russell, 65, and physician’s assistant Jorge Luis Pacheco, 50, were each sentenced to 97 months in prison, and physician’s assistant Eda Marietta Milanes, 43, was sentenced to 63 months in prison, for their roles in fraud schemes that involved billing Medicare for $10,903,509 worth of unnecessary HIV infusion treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: A former U.S. Army contracting official pleaded guilty today to accepting more than $80,000 in bribes in exchange for providing contract work to two Afghan trucking companies.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: Thank you for having me here.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on today’s release of the July 2009 unemployment numbers by the Labor Department. The report showed that the jobless rate dropped to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Senate today confirmed David Kappos as the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
By Commerce News Now | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: Current Commerce White House Liaison Rick Siger to Serve as Hightower’s Chief of Staff The U.S. Senate today confirmed Dennis F. Hightower as Deputy Secretary of Commerce by unanimous consent. Hightower, a seasoned business executive with a 40-year career in the public and private sectors, takes over general management of the Department of Commerce, an organization with nearly 38,000 employees and an operating budget of over $17 billion.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the July 2009 Employment Situation report released today: "Today's unemployment numbers continue to show the challenges of the economic problems that this administration inherited. These figures are a reminder that we still have a lot of work to do on behalf of America's workers.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 7, 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: "Today is a proud and historic day for our nation. Congress has confirmed its third female Supreme Court Justice and its first Latina woman to the highest court in our land.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 7, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Aug 7, 2009
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Aug. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
