News from September 2009
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2009
News Release: A unique partnership between the National Park Service and Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (KCTC) College continues to flourish, empowering employee safety. At a recent meeting at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (NHP), located in Middlesboro, KY, also home to of one of KCTC’s...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2009
News Release: (Keystone, SD) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is in the process of finalizing a groundbreaking partnership with the Kacyra Family Foundation and its project, CyArk (CyArk) - a US-based non-profit organization that pioneered the digital preservation (3-dimensional laser scanning, modeling and archiving)...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, responded this evening to President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform. Kline, whose panel is one of three House committees with jurisdiction over health care legislation, issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring elusive hazards such as concealed explosives and toxins, invisible spoilage in food or pesticides distributed in soil by wind and rain. The prototype...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kathy Cloninger today unveiled a Girl Scout preparedness patch—designed to engage Girl Scouts and their families in personal preparedness for all emergencies—and announced a new affiliation between DHS Citizen Corps and the Girl Scouts to advance community preparedness nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today defendant Paul Raymond Green was sentenced late last week to 52 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to prostitute minor females.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge a proposal by seven regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation companies to bid jointly and engage in other collaborative activity as part of their nationwide LTL truck transportation services joint venture. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: Jeffrey Robert Libman, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty in Miami today to one count of receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., has barred Placerville, Calif.-based Teresa Marty and her business, Advanced Financial Services, LLC, from acting as a federal tax return preparer, the Justice Department announced today. U.S. District Court Judge Frank C. Damrell, Jr., of the Eastern District of California entered the preliminary injunction order, which adopted an earlier recommendation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Adam S. Pretti, a former deputy with the Shelby County, Tenn., Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today in federal court in Memphis to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for using excessive force during an encounter with a citizen. Pretti was also ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta condominium association, as well as the owner of a unit and the real estate agent who sold it, for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against families with children.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Metro Financial Services, Inc., a registered bank holding company, Metro Bank of Dade County, a state chartered member bank, both of Miami, Florida, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Valley Bancorp, Inc., Brighton, Colorado, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: On September 8, 2009, the Federal Reserve will offer $75 billion in 84-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Additional information regarding the auction is listed below; the auction will be conducted as specified in this announcement, Regulation A, and the terms and conditions of the Term Auction Facility (www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm).
By Fed Newswire | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings from July 6 through Aug. 10, 2009.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $1,096,423 grant to assist approximately 178 workers affected by layoffs at Alcoa North American Rolled Products in Bettendorf, Iowa, and John Deere Davenport Works in Davenport, Iowa.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today released Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) 2009-03 that describes the circumstances under which a participant-directed individual account plan may satisfy the prospectus delivery requirements of section 404(c) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by furnishing a “Summary Prospectus” pursuant to requirements established by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By Labor Gazette | Sep 8, 2009
News Release: New York - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York seeking the appointment of an independent fiduciary to oversee the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Digitel Solutions for Business Inc. or Empire Telecom Systems Corp., formerly located in Buffalo, New York.
By DOE Gazette | Sep 8, 2009
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Sept. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Sep 8, 2009
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Sept. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
