News from February 2010

By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: A change in Federal law effective Feb. 22, allows people who can legally possess firearms under Federal, Minnesota and local laws to possess those firearms in Voyageurs National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: Feb. 18, 2010 -A change in federal law effective Feb. 22, allows people who can legally possess firearms under federal, Georgia, and local lawsto possess those firearms in Fort Frederica National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: A change in federal law effective Feb. 22, allows people who can legally possess firearms under federal, South Carolina, and local law to possess those firearms at Fort Sumter National Monument, which includes Fort Moultrie, and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today released a new report, “Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies" as a follow-up to a report on ACORN released July 23, 2009. The report includes new information gathered by committee investigators...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: During the March “From Shore to Sea" lectures, Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau will commemorate the park’s 30th anniversary.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park subject to California firearms laws.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 18, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement today regarding the signing agreements related to Klamath water issues.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) yesterday sent a letter requesting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke turn over all Fed documents related to the bailout of AIG and its credit-default counterparties.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: (Thousand Oaks, CA) On Saturday, Feb. 20, at 2 pm, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area will present a lecture by Jan Kempf of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. If you find yourself running from house spiders, dodging spider webs on the trail, or enjoy studying and learning about the many different spider species that live in the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles, this lecture is for you.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service has rescheduled Anita Singleton-Prather’s performance at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site after the snowfall of February 12th made travel from Beaufort, South Carolina unsafe. The program will now be on Sunday, March 7 at 2:00 p.m. Following the Aunt Pearlie Sue outdoor...

By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited B.T. Produce Co. Inc., operating in Bronx, N.Y., for willful, repeated, and flagrant violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday toured Transportation Security Administration (TSA) explosive detection technologies and canine program operations in Virginia and Texas—highlighting $576 ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Mexico City at the invitation of her Mexican colleague, Interior Secretary Fernando Francisco Gómez-Mont, to meet with officials from North, Central and South American and Caribbean and the International Civil Aviation Organization to discuss ways to bolster global aviation security measures and standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: Willoughby Farr, 46, of West Palm Beach, Fla., has been charged with perpetrating what is known as a cramming scheme, which was designed to place charges on consumers’ telephone bills for collect calls that were not made, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Miami Field Office announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: Detroit-area resident Muhammad Shahab pleaded guilty today for his role in organizing a Detroit-area home health care fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade; Special Agent in Charge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: Former military contractor Terry Hall, 43, of Snellville, Ga., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay more than $3 million in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, and to money laundering conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Community First Bank-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, a state chartered member bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Beach First National Bancshares, Inc., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Community National Bancorporation, Waterloo, Iowa, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on January 26-27, 2010. A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the January 26-27, 2010 meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes.