News from November 2009
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2009
News Release: Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that it might be more cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable to use corn stover for generating an energy-rich oil called bio-oil and for making biochar to enrich soils and sequester carbon.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2009
News Release: National Park Service Superintendent Patricia S. Trap announced today that Friendship of Salem is sailing home. "It is time to celebrate. Friendship is in the water and if the weather holds, we invite the community to join us Sunday, November 22nd, shortly after 2:30 pm on historic Derby Wharf to wave her home.".
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - A well-known columnist for Time magazine says his favorite provision in the Senate health reform bill is Senator Chuck Grassley’s requirement that members of Congress and congressional staff access health insurance the same way as many other Americans would be required to access insurance under pending legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2009
News Release: Music Festival Returns to Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary DHS Contact: 202-282-8010 HUD Contact: 202-708-0685 Memphis, Tenn.—The Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group held its fifth planned stakeholder forum today in Memphis, Tenn.—designed to encourage stakeholders to provide direct input and ideas for disaster recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former general manager of a Sugar Land, Texas-based business was arrested on Nov. 18, 2009, for his alleged role in a conspiracy to bribe Mexican government officials to secure contracts with the Comisión Federal de Electridad (CFE), a Mexican state-owned utility company, announced Lanny ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Senior Judge Robert L. Echols of the Middle District of Tennessee today sentenced Michael Corey Golden to 14 years and three months in prison and three years of supervised released for vandalizing and burning down the Islamic Center of Columbia, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. Golden pleaded guilty on Nov. 3, 2008, to destruction of religious property and to using fire to commit a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — Joshua Ryan Jones, 24, and Roger Forrester, 40, former corrections officers at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Jackson, Tenn., to violating the civil rights of an inmate and then lying about it during state and federal investigations, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Terrorism charges have been unsealed today in the District of Minnesota against eight defendants. According to the charging documents, the offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Arrests were made today in a case involving a conspiracy to procure weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit against Terence Flanagan, a Chicago area property owner and rental agent, alleging that he refused to rent properties he owned or controlled to African-Americans, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Jacques Monsieur, a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the Untied States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Robert Restuch, 70, of Bullhead City, Ariz., was sentenced today to five years in prison for mailing child pornography. Restuch was also sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow to serve a lifetime of supervised release following his prison term and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Febe Durango-Rueda, 52, a Colombian national, pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2009, to participating in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: Four individuals were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani in federal court in Detroit for their roles in a wide-ranging international stock fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mails, or "spamming." Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke hosted a meeting with Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Industry (MOTI), Mr. Rachid Mohamed Rachid, at the Commerce Department today. This was the first meeting between the Secretary and Minister Rachid.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: DENVER The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Wage and Hour Division together have fined Tempel Grain Elevators LLP of Wiley, Colo., more than $1.6 million following the May 29 death of a teenage worker at the company's Haswell, Colo., grain storage operation. The youth suffocated after being engulfed by grain in one of the facility bins. The company also exposed three other teenage workers to the cited hazards.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $741,502 grant to assist approximately 164 workers affected by layoffs at 15 companies in multiple industries in the Oregon counties of Jackson and Josephine.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 23, 2009
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order of wage garnishment against Bonnie Dolan (also known as Bonnie Ariola), previously the sole owner of the now defunct Bonnie Optical Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. Dolan was also the sole trustee and fiduciary of the company's 401(k) plan set up for the benefit of her then employees.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
