News from December 2010
By DOT News Wire | Dec 20, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a two page uncategorized document on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 20, 2010
The US Labor Department published a seven page uncategorized document on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced that a section of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway within Zion National Park is temporarily closed due to a washout from the recent heavy rains. This closure is expected to remain in effect until road crews are able to stabilize the damaged section of road. This could take a number of days to complete due to the forecast for more rain this week and the possibility of further road damage.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: Region 1 News Release: 10-1752-BOS/BOS 2010-507
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: On Friday evening, January 7, 2011 the National Park Service will offer free candlelight tours through Fort Moultrie. Tours will leave from the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center every 20 minutes beginning at 5:30 PM until 7:10 PM. Each tour will be limited to 20 individuals. Visitors may make reservations by calling (843) 883-3123 x 20 or in person at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Sullivan’s Island. Admission is free.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today welcomed a letter in which the country’s military leadership unanimously called for the ratification of the New START Treaty as soon as possible.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: The Annual Christmas Bird Count for the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park has been postponed until Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Volunteers wishing to join in the rescheduled event should meet at the North Unit Visitor Center at 9:00 a.m. CST.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2010
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The director of the National Park Service has approved the increase of entrance and lake use fees at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The new fee schedule will go into effect Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today responded on the Senate floor to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) comments about rushing the New START Treaty before Christmas. The Senate has been considering the treaty for over seven months, held over 20 hearings, and received answers to more than 900 formal questions that it submitted to the Obama administration.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released the following statement after a motion for cloture was filed on the New START Treaty:
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2010
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) today introduced two bills designed to hold corporations and their officers accountable for criminal actions. The first bill, the Dangerous Products Warning Act, H.R. 6544, requires business entities to warn employees, consumers, and the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 18, 2010 - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Barbara Boxer are moving forward with their plan to pass a massive land, wildlife and water omnibus package in the final days of the lame-duck Congress. This colossal bill will cost billions of dollars and include...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2010
News Release: One of the oldest structures on San Juan Island and northwest Washington has returned to its first island location-Officers' Row at American Camp, a unit of San Juan Island National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A grant administrator and her daughter have been charged with participating in a scheme resulting in the theft of approximately $150,000 in federal grant funds awarded to a non-profit corporation in the Territory of American Samoa, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Robert Libman, the vice president and co-director of Webe Web Corporation, a Florida corporation, was sentenced yesterday to 108 months in prison for transporting child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance of the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON –Yudel Cayro, owner and operator of Courtesy Medical Group Inc., a medical clinic in Miami, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his role in a wide-ranging Medicare fraud scheme involving Miami-area home health agencies, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against a Gulfport, Miss., newspaper and a landlord and her agent for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against families with children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maria Terechina, a national of the Russian Federation, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, for her role in a human trafficking conspiracy involving guestworkers who worked in hotels as housekeepers and laundry workers. Terechina was sentenced to 12 months in prison ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Madhatta Asagal Haipe, a citizen of the Philippines and founding member of Al-Harakat Al-Islamiyyah, also known as the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), was sentenced today to 23 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to four counts of hostage taking in the 1995 abduction of 16 people, including four U.S. citizens, in the Philippines.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Dorothy St. Laurent, 71, of Johnston, R.I., and her son Anthony St. Laurent Jr., 44, of Cranston, R.I., were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., for their participation in an interstate extortion scheme, in violation of the Hobbs Act, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny ...
