News from April 2010
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: Redwood National & State Parks celebrate the legacy of Newton B.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 2, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the economy gained 162,000 jobs in March as unemployment remained at 9.7 percent.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 2, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after a new Rasmussen poll shows 72 percent of Americans support offshore drilling.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: Today, the Department of Labor published a final rule in the Federal Register to require that personnel engaged in the provision of services under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program must be state employees covered by a merit system of personnel administration. Senator Chuck Grassley, co-author...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and George V. Voinovich of Ohio today issued a joint statement regarding President Obama’s recess appointment of Rafael Borras to the post of Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Both Senators are members...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: Rome, NY: To celebrate Fort Stanwix National Monument's 75th birthday the park will host a series of special events throughout the year. These events were developed in close cooperation with representatives from the city, community groups, park partners, and the park. Events will include a temporary...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: Chickasaw National Recreation area is offering a unique opportunity to develop a partnership with a high visitation National Park Service site located in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The park is seeking proposals for a non-permanent/mobile food service business venture to support visitor services.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor announced 162,000 jobs were created in the month of March and the national unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Rangers at Glacier National Park are continuing their investigation into the death of Brian Curtis Wright, 37, of East Glacier, Montana, whose body was recovered in avalanche debris on the northeast face of Mt. Shields late Thursday afternoon, April 1. Rangers believe Wright triggered...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement on employment data released today by the Department of Labor showing that 162,000 new jobs were created in March, the largest number of new jobs in three years...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: Asian wheat may offer novel genes for shoring up the defenses of U.S. varieties against Fusarium graminearum fungi that cause Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: America's Best Idea - the national parks are inviting you to come by for a visit, to relax, to learn a little bit about this great nation. and to just have some fun! What better time to experience a national park than National Park Week, April 17 - 25, 2010. To sweeten the deal all 392 national parks...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches are being managed under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree. Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid- to late-August and sea turtle nesting closures may...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit Rhode Island on Friday, April 2, to tour flood damage in affected areas and meet with state and local leaders to discuss response and recovery efforts. On Tuesday, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it supports a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licensing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators. The department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg Brown & Root Services (KBR) alleging that the defense contractor violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that KBR knowingly included impermissible ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daimler AG, a German corporation, and three of its subsidiaries have resolved charges related to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation into the company’s worldwide sales practices, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: ATLANTA - Francisco Cortes-Meza, 26, of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story in the Northern District of Georgia for sex trafficking in an organization that targeted young Mexican women.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A two-count bill of information filed today in federal court charges David Ryder of Opelousas, La., with lying to the FBI and with illegally possessing a firearm, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Jim Letten, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 1, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among First Banks, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, The San Francisco Company, Clayton, Missouri, both registered bank holding companies, their subsidiary bank, First Bank, Creve Coeur, Missouri, a state chartered member bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
