News from July 2009
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area (GATE) Public Affairs Office news releases are available via RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) technology allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the web sites you are interested in so that you don’t have to regularly check each site.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: A promising biocontrol agent for garlic mustard, one of the most problematic invaders of temperate forests in North America, has been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today proposed legislation to replenish the nation’s Highway Trust Fund in order to finance urgent maintenance of America’s rails, roads and bridges, and to save or create millions of good-paying infrastructure jobs. The Baucus bill...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it is awarding grants totaling more than $55.5 million to four universities to provide cost-shared support for the construction of new scientific research facilities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON-Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery Chairman Mary Landrieu, D-La., Monday released a series of four Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports detailing problems with Post-Katrina recovery efforts...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2009
News Release: APPLETON, WI - Today, Congressman Joe Baca (CA), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, held a hearing in Appleton, Wisconsin to review forest resource management issues in the region.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2009
News Release: Bridge Fire Continues to Burn in Bryce Canyon National Park and Dixie National Forest.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2009
News Release: On July 13, 2009, park staff was forced to kill a brown bear on the coast of Katmai National Park. Park archeologists had been camping and working on an off shore Island for several days when a lone bear appeared at their campsite.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates this evening confirming for the first time that H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, is deficit neutral over the 10-year budget window - and even produces a $6 billion surplus. CBO estimated more than $550 billion...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2009
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ―Petrified Forest National Park is offering even more special programs this summer!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dr. Gabriel DeCandido, a physician practicing internal medicine in Largo, Fla., has agreed to pay the United States $1.7 million to settle allegations that he defrauded the Medicare program, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Feliciano Sanchez, 34, a former officer with the Bell, Calif., Police Department, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles to a federal civil rights charge for sexually assaulting a female motorist, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Loretta King and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O’Brien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,-area woman and her company from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint in the case, Carole Exantus of Plantation, Fla., operated a company ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Carl Courtright III, of Granite City, Ill., was sentenced today to life plus 10 years in prison for production of child pornography and other offenses, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Courtney Cox ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON— John Joseph Cota, the pilot who caused the Cosco Busan, a 900-foot long container ship, to collide with the San Francisco Bay Bridge and discharge approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, was today sentenced to serve 10 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston for the Northern District of California, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Georgia temporary staffing company and its owner/president have agreed to plead guilty to making a false statement to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Rene Oswald Cobar, a Guatemalan national, and Luis Angel Gonzalez-Largo, a Colombian national, were each sentenced today to 235 months in prison on federal drug charges, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Cobar and Gonzalez-Largo were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted the owners and operators of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company of Medicare fraud, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O’Brien; and Glenn R. Ferry, Special Agent-in-Charge for the Los Angeles Region of the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health of Human Services announced today.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: Deputy Mayor Yang, honored guests, thank you for coming today for this special occasion. I’m delighted to join you to break ground for the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 17, 2009
News Release: The Department of Commerce's U.S. Census Bureau today reported that permits to build privately-owned new housing units rose 8.7 percent in June 2009, well above the expectation for a 1.9-percent rise. Housing starts rose 3.6 percent, better than the expectation of no change for the month.
