News from November 2010
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2010
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the reappointment of four sorghum producers to the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2010
News Release: Point Reyes Station - The National Park Service (NPS) announced extension of the public comment period to Nov. 26, 2010. A power outage in the Fort Collins, CO, offices of the NPS Natural Resource Program Center on Saturday, November 20 shut down servers for the NPS Planning, Environment and Public...
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In reaction to reports that North Korea has built a new facility to secretly enrich uranium, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2010
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park recently took delivery of seven Ford Escape Hybrid vehicles that were purchased using a $197,550 grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program. The CMAQ funding is U.S. Department of Transportation money which came through the State of North Carolina and was allocated by the Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) of the Land-of-Sky Regional Council and Southwestern Commission.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2010
News Release: At 2:30 p.m. yesterday, Saturday, Nov. 20, visitors notified Rocky Mountain National Park dispatch via cell phone of a climbing related fatality. The incident occurred on the "All Mixed Up" ice climbing route above Mills Lake on Thatchtop Mountain. The victim was part of a two-person climbing party...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 20, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today invited states to develop and test alternative methods of providing food for low-income children in urban and rural areas during the summer. USDA is requesting applications to enhance the current Summer Food Service Program by testing and evaluating home delivery and food backpack programs designed to reduce hunger among children when school is out.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 THE HAGUE, Netherlands—U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute today joined Dutch Security and Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten to sign a Preventing and Combating Serious Crime (PCSC) Agreement—allowing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to possession of controlled substances and conversion of government property, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin of the FBI’s Atlanta office and Director Vernon Keenan of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two Michigan construction companies have agreed to pay the United States $1.407 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims relating to a federally funded construction project at Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, the Justice Department announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former Consolidated Edison of New York (Con Edison) manager pleaded guilty today to charges that he accepted and agreed to accept approximately $807,000 in bribes from two Con Edison industrial pipe supply vendors, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON , DC – Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice’s Access to Justice Initiative co-hosted a Middle Class Task Force event today with Vice President Joe Biden, announcing a series of steps designed to help middle class and low-income families secure their legal rights. These ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—A Massachusetts man was convicted today by a jury in federal court in Boston of seven felonies related to the illegal importation and illegal trafficking of sperm whale teeth and narwhal tusks, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the proposal by Centennial Bank, Conway, Arkansas, to acquire assets and assume liabilities of Gulf State Community Bank, Carrabelle, Florida.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: New site: Six steps to exporting success Small businesses interested in exporting now have a new online tool to help them tap into the global marketplace to grow their business. Developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Small Business Administration, Six Steps to Begin Exporting, www.export.gov/begin, is the latest tool in the National Export Initiative toolbox to help entrepreneurs begin exporting.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Annual Business and Leadership Conference Thank you for those kind words.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: International travelers spent nearly $12 Billion in the U.S. in September According to newly released data from the Commerce Department, international visitors traveling to the United States pumped an estimated $11.7 billion into the U.S. economy during the month of September, up $1.7 billion compared ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that 13 mines from around the country received letters putting them on notice that each has a potential pattern of violations of mandatory health or safety standards under Section 104(e) of the federal ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 380 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 13 coal and six metal/nonmetal mine operations last month.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today hosted the 2010 Job Corps Oratory Competition in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis delivered opening remarks before four finalists from California, Illinois, Michigan and Kentucky took the stage to present their speeches about how Job Corps has impacted their lives.
By Fed News Journal | Nov 19, 2010
The US Federal Reserve System published a three page notice on Nov. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
