News from August 2010
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: Dear Director Clark: We are writing because we are disturbed by recent reports that the U.S. Marshals Service has been storing the images produced from scans taken at a U.S. courthouse in Orlando, Florida. Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) has the potential to serve as an important screening tool at...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: As a special experience for the visiting public and local communities, the National Park Service will be offering Full Moon Tours of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the evening of August 24. Two tours will be given, one at 7:30 p.m. and a second at 8:30 p.m. Each tour is limited to 30 people. Tickets must...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa, Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III stated that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, “have relaxed their original ARRA signage...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: AMS No. 164-10. WASHINTON, Aug. 19, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative action against Storeys’ Fruit & Produce Inc., operating in Philadelphia, Pa. The action alleges that the company committed willful, repeated, and flagrant violations of the Perishable Agricultural...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that sugar entering the United States under the fiscal year 2011 raw sugar import tariff-rate quota (TRQ) will be permitted to enter U.S. Customs territory beginning Sept. 1, 2010, a month earlier than the usual first entry date of October 1.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 19, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Hampden County, Mass., will conduct the first-ever Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) - an incentives-based program to empower low-income Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. The 2008 Farm Bill authorized $20...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - A field test demonstrating the best approaches for terrestrial carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in the heartland of North America has been successfully completed by one of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: Dear Director Clark: We are writing because we are disturbed by recent reports that the U.S. Marshals Service has been storing the images produced from scans taken at a U.S. courthouse in Orlando, Florida. Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) has the potential to serve as an important screening tool at...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: The Slope Fire, a lightning caused fire in Yosemite National Park, continues to burn in the area of Harden Lake. The fire was spotted on July 25th and is currently at 597 acres. The fire has spread minimally in the past few days due to fuel type and recent rain in the area. Yosemite Fire Crews are continuing to manage the Slope Fire for the purpose of ecological benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: On Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park partners with the US Postal Service in a special event--the First-Day-Issue of the Nature of America: Hawaiian Rain Forest Stamp.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A NOAA scientist, Dr. Bill Lehr, yesterday told a group of Congressional staff investigators on a conference call that a controversial National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report claiming that nearly three-quarters of the oil from the Gulf oil spill has already been...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2010
News Release: In the past, Voyageurs National Park held silent bid auctions or live auctions for surplus property. Today, the park must use an online surplus government property website call GSA Auctions. This website gives individuals or companies the opportunity to bid on surplus property. Voyageurs is currently working on disposing of surplus property and has begun to use the GSA Auctions website.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Cheese manufacturer Sorrento Lactalis Inc. will pay the United States a $315,000 penalty for excess discharges in violation of its wastewater permit levels, according to an agreement between the company, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The company discharged the excess pollutants into Mason Creek from its factory operations in Nampa, Idaho, in violation of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Barclays Bank PLC, a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London, has agreed to forfeit $298 million to the United States and to the New York County District Attorney’s Office in connection with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Andrew Cole pleaded guilty today to racketeering conspiracy and fraud in foreign labor contracting charges arising from his role in a criminal enterprise that engaged in numerous criminal activities, including forced labor, fraud in foreign labor contracting, visa fraud, mail fraud, identity theft, tax evasion and money laundering, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Farmington Hills, Mich., physician Jose Castro-Ramirez was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced. Castro-Ramirez was also ordered to pay $9.4 million in restitution and sentenced to a three-year term of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two defendants were sentenced today to prison in connection with a series of superseding indictments charging 26 individuals for their participation in an online child pornography conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. Morrison of the Southern District of Indiana.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Wisconsin Bancshares, Inc., Kenosha, Wisconsin, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 18, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the New York State Banking Department on Wednesday announced the issuance of a consent Order to Cease and Desist against Barclays Bank PLC, London and the bank's branch in New York. The Order requires Barclays Bank to improve its program for compliance with U.S. economic sanctions requirements on a global basis.
