News from June 2010
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahead of the Thursday, June 24, mark-up of this critical cybersecurity bill, Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Susan Collins, R-Me., its Ranking Member, today issued a “Myth vs. Reality" fact sheet to describe the intent and impact of their bipartisan legislation and to address some misconceptions about the bill.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Trish Kicklighter today announced that two areas of Assateague Island National Seashore will be temporarily closed to public use in order to protect breeding Piping Plovers. The closed areas include the southern portion of the public Over-Sand Vehicle (OSV) route south of kilometer marker...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: Albert Einstein said: “To keep your balance, you must keep moving.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2010 - After multiple reports in recent months of violence, drug running and murders on federal lands near our Southern Border, it seems the Obama Administration has a distorted view of the reality facing Border Patrol agents, law enforcement officers and everyday citizens.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: Chicken litter is much more valuable as a fertilizer than previously thought, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study showing its newfound advantages over conventional fertilizers.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. James Ryder (202) 225-0020. Congressman Joe Baca, D-Calif., Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing to review the federal Food Distribution Program for Indian Reservations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have moved a step closer to developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that can scan for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of health. The team reports* it has learned how to decode the electrical signals generated by a nanopore-a "gate" less than 2 nanometers wide in an artificial cell membrane.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) - a program that has successfully provided and transferred technological advances to small, independent oil and gas operators over the past nine years - has been extended to 2015 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium/New Jersey Sea Grant (NJMSC/NJSG) has received a 2010 Monmouth County Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award in recognition of its efforts and accomplishments to restore and preserve Barracks Building #22 at Sandy Hook, which has served as the organization’s headquarters since 1972.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Highlights DHS’ Efforts to Combat Counterfeiting and Piracy Crimes Washington, D.C.—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined Vice President Joe Biden to announce the Obama administration’s Joint ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s launch of the first-ever Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement, Attorney General Eric Holder today emphasized the Department of Justice’s ongoing commitment to protecting U.S. intellectual property as central to America’s economic prosperity and public safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—TheWilliamsport, Pa., Sanitary Authority (WSA) has agreed to make significant improvements to its combined sewer system at an estimated cost of approximately $10 million, in order to resolve long-standing problems with combined sewer overflows to the Susquehanna River, which flows to the Chesapeake Bay, the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Spokane, Wash., has returned an indictment charging Ronald James Davenport of Deer Park, Wash., with filing fraudulent multi-billion-dollar liens against four government officials, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: Puerto Rico Senator Hector Martinez Maldonado and Juan Bravo Fernandez, the former president of one of the largest private security firms in Puerto Rico, have been charged in an indictment returned today by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico for their alleged roles in a bribery scheme involving legislation beneficial to Bravo Fernandez’ business, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and the vice president of a Detroit-area physical therapy clinic were convicted today by a federal jury for their roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Justice Department today announced that Thomas Gleason, 22, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to three crimes related to the burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African-American church, in Springfield on the morning after President Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American President of the United States.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., Whiteville, North Carolina, a registered bank holding company, its subsidiary bank, Waccamaw Bank, Whiteville, North Carolina, a state-chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and the State of North Carolina, Office of the Commissioner of Banks.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between First Capital West Bankshares, Inc., Laramie, Wyoming, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: Interpretation is a win for all families no matter what they look like WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today clarified the definition of "son and daughter" under the Family and Medical Leave Act to ensure that an employee who assumes the role of caring for a child receives parental rights to family leave regardless of the legal or biological relationship.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – At a White House forum of the U.S. Interagency Council of Homelessness today, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced 97 grants, totaling more than $24 million, to provide approximately 14,000 veterans with job training to help them succeed in civilian careers. The grants are being awarded under the U.S. Department of Labors Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program.
