News from May 2009
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: Though cases of botulism food poisoning aren't common in the United States today, they're nonetheless of concern to food safety researchers. That's why Agricultural Research Service (ARS) biologist Larry H. Stanker and colleagues at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., developed a new, improved test for detecting what's known as "serotype A" of the toxin.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: Acadia National Park Education Staff will be offering a free three-hour field workshop on the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) units at Acadia National Park’s Hulls Cove Visitor Center on Tuesday, May 12, from 3-6 p.m. and again on Thursday, May 14, from 3-6 p.m. GPS units will be available for use during the workshop. Pre-registration is required by Monday, May 11.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Last Thursday, Grand Canyon National Park Rangers initiated a search for three young men that disappeared while attempting to swim across the Colorado River near Boat Beach, just above River Mile 88. The body of 16 year-old Mark Merrill was recovered in the Colorado River on Friday, May 1, approximately one mile below Boat Beach.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S.House Education and Labor Committee, today welcomed the beginning of the 10th Annual National Charter Schools Week and highlighted the success of these innovative public schools.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following is the statement of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., regarding President Obama’s proposals for offshore tax reform. Levin, the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has led investigations since 2001 into abusive tax shelters and offshore tax havens used by businesses and individuals to dodge payment of their U.S. taxes and is the author of S. 506, the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2009 - Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands will hold a hearing regarding the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA, H.R. 980) which would lock up American land, specifically moving approximately 24 million acres of lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Utah from public access lands to off-limits wilderness areas.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2009
News Release: The supplemental request the committee will consider on Thursday is fairly close to the Administration's request.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2009
News Release: Visit Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Friday, May 8th and Saturday, May 9th and the mountains will indeed be filled with the sound of music as dulcimer aficionados from near and far gather together sharing tunes and jamming. Park volunteers Terry and Pam Lewis of Ewing, Virginia, who were instrumental...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Yesterday afternoon, Grand Canyon National Park Rangers recovered the body of a young man missing since Thursday morning, when he and two others disappeared after jumping into the Colorado River. The young man has been identified as 16 year-old, Mark Merrill.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: A federal grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark., has indicted five men from the Donaldson, Ark., area on federal civil rights charges as well as charges of making false statements to the FBI. The indictment was returned under seal on Apr. 21, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The owner and president of a Ronkonkoma, N.Y., designing and manufacturing company pleaded guilty to conspiring to allocate a U.S. Navy contract for Navy straps, the Department of Justice announced today. Navy straps are a type of tiedown equipment used by the U.S. Navy to secure munitions and other supplies for transport on ships and airplanes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: The Department today filed suit against the Fitchburg Housing Authority in Fitchburg, Mass., and its Executive Director Robert W. Hill alleging that they violated the Fair Housing Act when they refused to allow a tenant to transfer to a different apartment as a reasonable accommodation for her disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: Former Tippah County, Miss., Deputy Sheriff William Rogers and his son, former Tippah County Deputy Sheriff Jeffrey Rogers, were sentenced in federal court on Apr. 30, 2009, for violating the civil rights of an arrestee by shooting him with a taser unnecessarily.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON— Style Craft Furniture Co. Ltd., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Camden, N.J., to one count of smuggling cribs containing internationally protected wood known as "ramin," the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Miami federal grand jury has charged two South Florida men with conspiracy, mail and wire fraud in connection with the operation of a fraudulent ATM business opportunity, the Justice Department announced. The criminal charges are part of the government’s continued nationwide crackdown on business opportunity fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former officer and two employees of Teamsters Local 743 (Local 743) were convicted today in federal court in Chicago of federal labor fraud and theft charges in connection with stealing union ballots in an effort to rig two elections in favor of an incumbent slate of officers in 2004, officials of the U.S. Justice and Labor Departments announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The United States has intervened in a civil lawsuit against two former suppliers to the National School Lunch Program – Hallmark Meat Packing Company and Westland Meat Company Inc. – for submitting false and fraudulent claims to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a division of the ...
By Fed Newswire | May 1, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that, starting in June, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and securities backed by insurance premium finance loans will be eligible collateral under the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).
By Commerce News Now | May 1, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke hosted a meeting with Colombia’s Minister for Trade, Industry and Tourism, Luis Guillermo Plata, at the Commerce Department today. This was the first meeting between Minister Plata and Secretary Locke.
