News from March 2010
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: (MUNISING, Mich.) A summer work opportunity is available for area young people through the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Youth between the ages of 15 and 18 may apply for the YCC program. There are no income restrictions for this youth employment program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: Beginning April 1, spring visitor center hours will be in effect at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2010 - House Natural Resource Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after learning of the out of court settlement agreed to by the Bureau of Land Management regarding the use of “categorical exclusions" for new oil and gas leases as...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: On April 17, 2010 the National Park Service and the Sharpe Community Scholars of the College of William & Mary will present the second Maggie Walker Heritage Day, a celebration of the life and legacy of one of America’s great organizers and businesswomen. The event will take place at the Maggie L. Walker...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement that his Administration will delay a new offshore drilling plan until 2012 and include only a fraction of offshore land that was available under the 2010-2015 lease plan.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: (Asan, GU) On the morning of July 21, 1944, more than twenty thousand U.S. Marines stormed the Asan beaches that made up the northern invasion site during the WWII Liberation of Guam. On March 7, 2010, that location, known today as the Asan Beach Unit of War in the Pacific National Historical Park, again hosted an historic event for the Marine Corps on Guam: a sensational performance by the U.S. Marine Corps Battle Color Detachment.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) to immediately provide the American people with the transparency they are entitled to regarding the value of assets held in Maiden Lane...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced that major roadwork will occur in Zion National Park from approximately mid-May to October, 2010. The work will occur on a section of the Zion-Mt Carmel highway known as “The Switchbacks", from the junction of the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive to the west portal...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2010
News Release: Washington-Oregon. 71.02. 0.40. 2.28. Eastern GOM (in 50mi[1]). 21.00. 0.70. 5.2. Total: 366.94. 13.14. 41.49. CLOSED TO LEASING BUT PROPOSED FOR STUDY. OR AWAITING ACTION BY CONGRESS IN THE NEW Obama OCS PLAN. Mid-Atlantic. 110.53. 1.50. 15.13. South Atlantic. 50.99. 0.41. 3.86. Eastern GOM (50mi). 44.0...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: Patrick Gallagher, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia to serve on the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's primary private-sector policy advisory group. The new VCAT members-who will serve three-year terms starting on April 1-bring the body's number to 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of--let's say--gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers. To help with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an out-of-court settlement in the matter of J.L. v. Mohawk Central School District, a lawsuit which the United States sought to join to address alleged violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal district judge in New Hampshire has permanently barred Faith A. Bartlett, individually and operating as Atlantic Bookkeeping & Tax Services and Newbury Business Services Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Bartlett to provide her customer lists to the government and to mail copies of the court order to her clients. Bartlett consented to the civil injunction order.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal judge in St. Louis has barred two St. Louis tax preparers and their businesses from certain conduct the Justice Department announced today. The order entered by Judge Richard E. Webber of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri bars Frank “Tiger” Zerjav Jr. from preparing tax returns and providing tax advice for three years, and permanently bars his father, Frank Zerjav Sr., from engaging in specified conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Samuel Abrahaley Fessahazion, 23, an Eritrean national, has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle illegal aliens to the United States for private financial gain, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno of the Southern District of Texas and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a federal court has approved a consent decree resolving an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discrimination lawsuit against attorney Patric LeHouillier and his law firm, LeHouillier & Associates, P.C., based in Colorado Springs, Colo. The consent decree was approved by Judge Marcia S. Krieger in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) member John Guzman, 31, of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced the formation of the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP), the first new section to be formed in the Criminal Division since 2008. The new section represents a merger of the Criminal Division’s Domestic Security Section (DSS) and the Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A two-count bill of information filed today in federal court charges New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Officer Michael Hunter with misprision of a felony (for concealing a known felony) and with conspiring with fellow NOPD officers to obstruct justice by covering up a police-involved ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in San Francisco today returned an indictment against a former executive of a large Taiwan-based color display tube (CDT) manufacturing company for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices of CDTs, a type of cathode ray tube used in computer monitors and other specialized applications, the Department of Justice announced.
