News from September 2010
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park officials invite the public to learn how researchers count mountain goats and get population numbers in the park. This Friday, Jami Belt, Glacier Citizen Science Coordinator, presents a discussion on using citizen scientists to monitor mountain goat populations. She will also discuss baseline estimates of mountain goat populations and their distribution in Glacier.
By State Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Reflecting the generosity and humanitarian concern of the American people, the U.S. government provides assistance to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and mitigate the devastating effects of natural disasters. To learn more about relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Pakistan, please click on the following links...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Effective 6:00 p.m. Sept. 19, 2010, additional emergency fire restrictions are in place within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park due to high fire danger.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Permits are available for the North Manitou Island special deer hunt within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The season begins with a bow hunt on October 1 and will end after the final firearm deer hunt on November 7. Deer taken on this hunt do not count against the hunters' mainland bag limit. There is no bag limit on the number or sex of deer that can be taken on North Manitou Island. Applications for the North Manitou Island hunts are now being accepted for.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Dear [Insurance Executive]: We write to you concerned about unnecessary premium increases in 2011 and reports that insurance carriers are attempting to blame these premium increases on the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act). Your company has one of the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Update: Sunday afternoon September 19. The Onahu (on-a-who) Fire that started on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park on Saturday, forcing the closure of Trail Ridge Road, should be fully contained by late today according to fire managers on scene. Meanwhile, park managers have implemented additional...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
Release: Hearing to Review the State of the Crop Insurance Industry - July 22, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Sue D. Bennett, Site Manager of Anacostia Park and Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens (National Capital Parks-East) in Washington, D.C. has been selected as the Chief of Interpretation at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. She will start her new position on June 27, 2010.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Children who have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes might be identified earlier by way of tell-tale genetic indicators known as biomarkers. Some of those new biomarkers might be pinpointed in research led by Nancy F. Butte and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service 's National Institutes of Health.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2010
News Release: Third National Park in the United States designated on Oct. 1, 1890.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2010
News Release: The 2003 Volkswagen Passat that tumbled to the shore of Crater Lake last Saturday evening was only the second automobile to ever do so. (This is a correction from the previous press release that stated the vehicle was a 1993 Volkswagen Passat.) The last auto mishap of this kind occurred in October 1922...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 18, 2010
News Release: COSHOCTON, Ohio – A federal district court in Columbus, Ohio, has entered a consent order and judgment requiring Barbara Elise Miller, an executive of Three Rivers Option Care in Coshocton, to repay $78,562.81 in employee contributions and lost opportunity costs to the participants and beneficiaries ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2010
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By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced approximately $98 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for advanced technology (AT) X-ray units and inline baggage screening systems—enhancing the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) ongoing efforts to strengthen airport security while boosting the local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Ohio today charged Ronald J. Pudder with intentionally damaging, destroying and attempting to destroy religious property because of the race, color and ethnic characteristics of individuals associated with that property, and for willfully and knowingly using fire to commit a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that a scientist and his wife, who both previously worked as contractors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, have been indicted on charges of communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official and conspiring to participate in the development of an atomic weapon for Venezuela, among other violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal judge in St. Louis has permanently barred a Missouri attorney and his law firm from promoting any Individual Retirement Account-based arrangement, the Justice Department announced today. The order, entered by Judge Rodney W. Sippel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sophia Manuel, 41, and Alfonso Baldonado Jr., 45, owners of Quality Staffing Services Corporation, a labor contracting service, pleaded guilty to conspiring to hold 39 Filipino nationals in compelled service in country clubs and hotels in Southeast Florida. Manuel also pleaded guilty to making false statements in an application she filed with the U.S. Department of Labor to obtain foreign labor certifications and visas under the federal H2B guest worker program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today settled a lawsuit against the city of Satsuma, Ala., and the city’s Board of Adjustment, alleging housing discrimination against individuals with disabilities. This lawsuit is part of the Justice Department’s continuing effort to enforce civil rights laws that require states and municipalities to end discrimination against, and unnecessary segregation of, persons with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three alleged members and associates of the MS-13 gang have been indicted for various violent crimes stemming from a home invasion last year in the District of Columbia in which several persons were held at gunpoint. A fourth alleged member has been indicted for subsequent efforts to threaten potential witnesses in the case.
