News from November 2010
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2010
News Release: Contrast the beauty, simplicity and grandeur of nature at the edge of the most densely populated place in the nation, the greater New York and New Jersey metropolitan area. This is Gateway National Recreation Area. In fact, Gateway was the first unit of the National Park System specifically intended to serve the needs of urban residents.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - The commercialization of an innovative telemetry communications system developed through a U.S. Department of Energy research program will help U.S. producers tap previously hard-to-reach natural gas resources deep underground, resulting in access to additional supplies that will help enhance national energy security.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2010, will again be celebrated as a fee-free day for all park visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) in honor of U.S. veterans and current members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2010
News Release: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed two strategies to ward off cattle fever ticks that are crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. These ticks transmit bovine babesiosis, commonly known as Texas cattle fever, a deadly disease of cattle that's caused by singled-celled organisms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2010
News Release: Come to the Rainy Lake Visitor Center for a Family Movie Day on Sunday, November 7, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Refreshments and popcorn provided.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Tanikka Watford as sole proprietor and Tanikka Watford and LaTisha Watford jointly d/b/a Southern Solutions Produce LLC (Southern Solutions) of Hillsborough, N.C., for failure to make full payment promptly to eight sellers totaling $365,637.74 for 30 lots of produce. This is in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the following statement on National Weatherization Day. The statement can be found on the Energy Blog.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd. (ANA) has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $73 million criminal fine for its role in two separate conspiracies to fix prices in the air transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Benjamin Haskell was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Springfield, Mass., to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the 2008 burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominately African-American Church, on the morning ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the approval of fee schedules, effective Jan. 3, 2011, for payment services the Federal Reserve Banks provide to depository institutions (priced services). The Board has also approved maintaining the current earnings credit rate on clearing balances.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: Personal income decreased 0.1 percent and real consumer spending increased 0.1 percent in September, according to data released today by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. Real consumer spending in the third quarter was 2.6 percent higher, at an annual rate, than the second-quarter average. Real disposable personal income decreased 0.3 percent in September.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: Miners, mine operators urged to take precautions during colder months ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration kicks off its 2010 Winter Alert campaign today to warn miners and mine operators about the dangers colder weather can bring to the mining environment. Historically, statistics show that most coal mine explosions occur during the colder months.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The current and former trustees of several retirement, health and welfare plans of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 99 in Cranston, R.I., were ordered to repay $439,755.62 to the plans as restitution for violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, according to a consent order and judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
News Release: RHINELAND, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of defunct Lensing Earthworks Inc. of Rhineland for allegedly paying operating expenses using employee contributions to the company’s savings incentive match plan for employees individual retirement accounts.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 1, 2010
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 1, 2010
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.