News from June 2010
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids over $34 million on June 23, 2010. This was the largest dollar amount of any BLM sale this year, and the highest dollar amount ever for a BLM-Eastern States lease auction. The sale was held at the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park fire staff plans to take advantage of a projected burn window sometime between Monday, June 28th and Monday July 19th to reintroduce fire into the park. These burns called the Loomis Prescribed Fire and the Crescent Prescribed Fire are 33 and 226 acres respectively. The...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. James Ryder (202) 225-0020. Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., played a leading role in the successful completion of the conference committee on H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act. “While everyone had to make some...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: Big Time Festival. Saturday, July 17, 2010. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Kule Loklo. Please join us for this traditional Native American trade festival at Kule Loklo, Point Reyes National Seashore. The annual festival is slated for Saturday, July 17, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at Kule Loklo, a Coast Miwok...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., hailed Senate confirmation Friday of John Pistole to be Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary in charge of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to the crisis in southern Kyrgyzstan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-IN) today issued the following statements announcing the Senate’s unanimous passage of a resolution calling for all parties to refrain from violence and attend to the civilians who have been displaced or injured.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) sent the following letter in response to Senator Corker’s (R-TN) letter on the Committee holding hearings on the U.S. mission in Afghanistan prior to the July Fourth congressional recess:
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley has released a staff report of the Committee on Finance on the practice of medical ghostwriting and is urging the National Institutes of Health to incorporate its findings in new, final disclosure guidelines.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: At a time when consumer interest in health-enhancing foods is high, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have contributed to a limited but growing body of evidence of a link between vitamin D and cognitive function.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Congressman John Linder, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means, today released a report prepared at their request from the Government Accountability...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking information from the public about the death of a nesting female loggerhead turtle that was struck and killed by an off-road vehicle (ORV) during the night-time hours between June 23 and June 24. The turtle had crawled out of the ocean and attempted to lay a...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) celebrated the U.S. Senate's passage of The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act (S.1508). The bill, sponsored by Sens. Carper, Lieberman, Collins, McCaskill, McCain and Coburn in the Senate and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) in the House, requires...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Denver, Colo., to deliver remarks highlighting the Obama administration's ongoing efforts to work with Congress on ways to comprehensively ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 DHS now performs 100 percent watchlist matching for all flights by all U.S. air carriers Washington, D.C—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that 100 percent of passengers flying domestically ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., has indicted 26 members and associates of the violent gang known as the Bloods, for various charges, including conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: Mikalai Mardakhayeu, a Belarusian national residing in Nantucket, Mass., was arrested Wednesday night and charged for his alleged participation in an international online "phishing" scheme to steal income tax refunds intended for U.S. taxpayers around the country, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The state of Florida must provide Michele Haddad with services that will enable her to remain in her home, a U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Fla., ruled Wednesday. Haddad, who has quadriplegia as a result of a motorcycle accident with a drunk driver in 2007, has successfully resided ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that Robert Jackson, 37, of Downsville, La., pleaded guilty in federal court to placing a hangman’s noose in the carport of the home of a family in order "to send a message" to African-American males who had been frequently visiting the victim’s home. Jackson entered a plea to violating the Fair Housing Act by intimidating and interfering with another’s housing rights because of race.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Mobile, Ala., has returned a three-count indictment charging Thomas Hayward Lewis, 24, of Mobile, with violating and conspiring to violate the civil rights of congregants of the Congregation Tree of Life Messianic Synagogue in Mobile, as well as possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2010
News Release: Three alleged members or associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have been indicted for their alleged roles in a 2008 murder in Atascosa County, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy of the Western District of Texas.
