News from September 2009
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park officials congratulate Bill Hayden, Interpretive Specialist, for being selected as the Intermountain Region’s winner of the 2009 Freeman Tilden Award for Excellence in Interpretation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: September 26 is National Public Lands day, and your local national park could use your volunteer help! National Public Lands Day began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. Last year 120,000 volunteers worked in over 1,800 locations and in every state including right here in Indiana.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report, GAO-09-849, requested by a bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators that raises concerns about fundamental operations at the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), specifically its inconsistent coordination when exercising in collaboration with the very State, local, and tribal governments that the Command was created to support.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: Hybrids of the invasive Australian plant species Casuarina exist in Florida, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and university cooperators have found.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tonight welcomed President Obama’s decision to enforce a U.S. trade law designed to address import surges from China that disrupt the U.S. market. Specifically, the President imposed temporary, additional tariffs on U.S. imports of Chinese tires pursuant to section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2009
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Selected for the America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: Sara Kuban, Department of Homeland Security, 202-282-8010 Contact Leslie Logan, Seneca Nation, 716-548-6612 The Department of Homeland Security and the Seneca Nation of Indians today formalized an agreement to develop a Western Hemisphere Travel ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano commemorated the milestone of more than 52,000 American military service members becoming U.S. citizens since Sept. 11, 2001, by joining Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas at a naturalization ceremony for 31 military men and women today at the Pentagon.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 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 $35.4 million in funding for three airport security projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)—designed to enhance the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) efforts to strengthen security at airports while creating jobs across the country.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today applauded President Obama’s intent to nominate Erroll Southers as Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Steven W. Allen, an attorney who operated a legal practice in Mesa, Ariz., and Allen P. Goodmansen, a certified public accountant who operated an accounting practice in Mesa, were indicted Wednesday for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and for aiding in the filing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: Dr. Candido Negron Mella pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for his participation in a corruption scheme involving the 2000 Resident Commissioner campaign of a former governor of Puerto Rico. Negron Mella, 42, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act. He was sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: Thomas Raffanello, a former global director of security at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office of Stanford Financial Group (SFG), has been charged today in a three-count superseding indictment with conspiracy to obstruct a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proceeding and to destroy documents in a federal investigation; obstruction of a proceeding before the SEC; and destruction of records in a federal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that four men who committed three hate crime assaults in response to President Barack Obama’s election victory were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carol B. Amon in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ralph Nicoletti, 19, was sentenced to 108 months in prison; Bryan Garaventa, 18, was sentenced to 60 months; Michael Contreras, 19, was sentenced to 55 months; and Brian Carranza, 21, was sentenced to 70 months.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between UCBH Holdings, Inc., San Francisco, California, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Tennessee State Bancshares, Inc., Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, a registered bank holding company, Tennessee State Bank, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, a state member bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on the release of the July 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 2.2 percent to $127.6 billion since June 2009. Imports increased 4.7 percent to $159.6 billion.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, coinciding with the recession that began in December 2007. Additionally, the number of people covered by private health insurance decreased from 202 million in 2007 to 201 million in 2008.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Gallagher, 46, is currently the NIST deputy director.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding Sen. Tom Harkin as chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee: "I am delighted to congratulate Sen. Tom Harkin on his new role as chairman of the HELP Committee.
