News from May 2010
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: On Sunday May 23 at 1p.m., the latest extension of Gateway National Recreation Area’s Sandy Hook Multiple-use Pathway (MUP) will be unveiled to the public at a ribbon cutting ceremony. Visitors are encouraged to bring their bikes, roller blades, in-line skates out to the park for a spin. The project...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: Customs. The Senate Finance Committee today released a memo on the nomination of Alan Bersin to be Commissioner of Customs regarding information received and discovered in the Committee’s review of the nominee. The Senators released the memo in conjunction with a briefing today with staff of Finance...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley has filed an amendment to the Senate financial regulation bill to create a new registration requirement for certain employees at all major financial regulatory agencies who leave the agency. The amendment would also establish a two-year ban on these former employees...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: Colorado National Monument is proposing to slightly raise its entrance fee of $7 per car and $4 per person (hiker/bicyclist) to $10 per car and $5 per person (hiker/bicyclist). The Monument is proposing to raise the current annual pass of $20 to $25. The annual pass is valid for one year from date of purchase.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced the annual seasonal closures of village beaches to off-road vehicle (ORV) use within the National Seashore will go into effect at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, 2010. In addition, the beach driving speed limit is reduced from 25 mph to 15 mph in all locations open...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: (Keystone, S.D.) In response to the current Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic, Mount Rushmore National Memorial has finalized an action plan that addresses the presence of mountain pine beetle in the Memorial. A National Park Service (NPS) Rapid Resource Assessment Team (RRAT) assessed the situation at the...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 11, National Park Service investigators attempted to contact a male subject after they became aware that he had an outstanding warrant. The man was visiting a local resident and was staying in a house in a park residential area.
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Members Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday criticized Administrations of both parties for awarding nearly $1 billion in federal contracts to companies doing business in Iran between 2005 and 2009, and for failing to rigorously enforce the Iran Sanctions Act, passed in 1996.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and the United States Coast Guard Sectors New York and Delaware Bay announced on May 10th 19 new grants to promote the health and living resources of the coast and oceans of New Jersey. Gateway National Recreation Area received one of the environmental...
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the Democratic Caucus of the House Appropriations Committee made subcommittee selections for the remainder of the 111th Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on draft clean energy and climate legislation released by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT)...
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Members Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday criticized Administrations of both parties for awarding nearly $1 billion in federal contracts to companies doing business in Iran between 2005 and 2009, and for failing to rigorously enforce the Iran Sanctions Act, passed in 1996.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2010
News Release: This notice is to inform kayakers and campers of a temporary closure to overnight camping on the north side of Scidmore Bay and the West Arm of Glacier Bay, and a closure to foot traffic for non-Park Service employees on the eastern portion of this shoreline, from the high tide cut connecting Scidmore...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Cherry Payne announced today that a vessel speed limit of 13 knots through the water for all vessels is being implemented in lower Glacier Bay whale waters to protect numerous humpback whales that have been sighted in this area. In addition, vessels...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler today opened the National Internet Crimes Against Children Conference, "PROTECTing our Children; Making the Internet a Safer Place," in Jacksonville, Fla. The conference features highly specialized training provided by the Internet Crimes Against Children ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: Balli Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Balli Group PLC, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to pay a $2 million fine and to serve a five-year corporate period of probation after pleading guilty on Feb. 5, 2010, to a two-count criminal information in connection with its illegal export of commercial Boeing 747 aircraft from the United States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with St. Clair County, Ill., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jose Garcia, 55, who has been a fugitive since 2008, was taken into federal custody yesterday at Miami International Airport, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). Garcia self-surrendered to FBI agents upon arrival in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: Hazim Gaber, 22, of Edmonton, Canada, pleaded guilty today in Phoenix before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward C. Voss to selling counterfeit cancer drugs using the Internet, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke for the District of Arizona and FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office Nathan T. Gray.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2010
News Release: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two men late yesterday on kidnapping charges for abducting a Van Nuys, Calif., man who was shot, shocked with a taser and held captive for five days while his kidnappers attempted to negotiate a $1 million ransom payment, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny ...
