News from September 2010
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: The Mill Creek horse trail is now clear and open to riders and hikers.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL) today sent a letter to White House Counsel Robert Bauer raising questions surrounding the “unusual arrangement" surrounding...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: (Calumet, MI) Jim Corless, superintendent at Keweenaw National Historical Park, announced his retirement today, effective October 31. Jim’s Federal service includes 29-1/2 years with the National Park Service (NPS) and two years with the U.S. Navy. Jim served at eleven parks throughout his NPS career...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park officials temporarily closed the upper portion of the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road)at 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 between Big Bend on the west side and Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side due to recent snow accumulation and the resulting unsafe...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: Have you ever walked along one of the trails at the Cliff mine, stumbled upon a crumbling masonry ruin, and wondered what it was? If you are one of the many people who explore the site, chances are you have come across a feature you can't identify. Join Sean Gohman as he describes recent archeological investigations to learn more about these features and this significant copper mine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2010
News Release: Olympic National Park biologists will conduct a Roosevelt elk population census beginning Sept. 20. Park staff will count elk from a low-flying helicopter between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. each day of the census, which is expected to last through Sept. 24 depending on weather conditions. The aerial counts will occur within Olympic National Park boundaries in high-elevation areas including the Bailey Range, Mount Olympus and the High Divide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Former Indianapolis and Marion County, Ind., City-County Councilman Lincoln Plowman has been charged with attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. Morrison of the Southern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Paul Solofa, the director of the school lunch program for the government of the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, has been arrested on charges of witness tampering and obstruction of justice, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Cesar Carranza, 38, a resident of Long Beach, Calif., was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for his role in laundering $2.5 million dollars in proceeds derived from several stolen credit card information schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch for the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Frederick Allen and Kimberlee Allen, both of Harwich, Mass., were sentenced to three years in prison for conspiracy, tax evasion and failure to file tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. A jury convicted the couple on Apr. 21, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Gilberto Jordan, 54, a former Guatemalan special forces soldier, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch in the Southern District of Florida to 10 years in prison for unlawfully procuring his U.S. citizenship by lying about his participation in a 1982 massacre at a Guatemalan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three former employees and a partner of Nexus Technologies Inc. (Nexus), a Philadelphia-based company, were sentenced late yesterday for their roles in a conspiracy to bribe officials of the Vietnamese government in exchange for lucrative contracts to supply equipment and technology to Vietnamese ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the agenda and panelists for the last of four public hearings this year on potential revisions to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).
By Fed Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among State Bank Financial, La Crosse, Wisconsin, a state-chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the State of Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among South Group Bancshares, Inc., Glennville, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Banking Commissioner of the State of Georgia.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: The BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, situated about 50 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana, exploded on April 20, 2010, resulting in 11 deaths, 17 injuries and one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. In response, the Secretary of the Interior exercised his authority to suspend ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: The Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau today released data on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in 2009.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: In advance of the President’s Export Council meeting, the White House released a report to the president on the National Export Initiative (NEI). The report, developed by the Export Promotion Cabinet, which includes the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Treasury, Agriculture and Labor and the heads of ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Accountability Office today issued a report titled, "Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses." In response, Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration Assistant Secretary of Labor Dr. David Michaels, ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON Direct support professionals – nurse aides, home health aides, and personal and home care aides – are the primary providers of paid hands-on care for millions of individuals with disabilities.
