News from April 2011
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - April 11, 2011. Ed Cummins, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. National Park Service Celebrates National Park Week and Offers Free Entrance to all National Park Areas. National Park Week is coming up-April 16-24-and entrance to all National Park Service areas...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: Dear Secretary Geithner: As the Ranking Member of the United State Senate’s Committee on Finance (“Committee"), I have an obligation to consider the impact that federal policy has on America’s international economic competitiveness, and the impact that those policies have on international trade and...
By State Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement in response to today’s detention of Laurent Gbagbo:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Juvenal Paredes Sanchez, 36, of Merced County, pleaded guilty today to using a communication (cellular phone) in furtherance of a marijuana cultivation and distribution conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We are writing to express our deep concern about the lack of a functioning Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and to urge you to nominate a full slate of members for the Board as quickly as possible. As you know, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT - Entrance fees to Glacier National Park and the additional 393 National Park Sites will be waived during National Park Week, April 16-24, 2011. In January, the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced 17 fee-free days in our National Parks, Monuments and Sites. National Park Week is the longest fee-free period this year.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: In conjunction with National Park Week, Andersonville National Historic Site will celebrate Junior Ranger Day on April 23, 2011. This program is designed to help children and families connect and engage in the National Park System as a whole as well as individual parks around the country with the theme of “Explore, Learn, Protect: Be a Junior Ranger.".
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after some energy experts predicted gasoline prices could reach $5 per gallon by Memorial Day weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: National Park Week Celebrates Healthy Parks, Healthy People.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, today outlined the objectionable energy and environment policies in the yearly spending plan after details were released late last night. The plan continues corporate welfare programs for nuclear power...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Free tours and special activities are scheduled at Wind Cave National Park to celebrate this year's National Park Week. From Saturday, April 16, through Sunday, April 24, all tours at Wind Cave will be free. In addition to these below ground programs, special hikes will also be offered.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - With gas prices approaching the all-time high per gallon in the United States, House Democrats are stepping up their efforts to deploy a small fraction of the nation’s oil reserves to tamp down speculation and reduce prices for American families and small businesses. Today, Rep. Edward J.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, have introduced legislation to reform and modernize the Federal Protective Service (FPS) to set it on course to fulfill its mission of protecting 9,000 federal buildings around the country.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2011
News Release: Sullivan’s Island, SC: Fort Sumter National Monument is commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War during 9 days of events, April 9-17 at three of its sites: Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, and Liberty Square. Highlights of the events include Reenactors presenting daily programs that includes musket firing and heavy artillery drills at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter and living history programs at Liberty Square.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 9, 2011
News Release: Washington -The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is opening public comment today at www.ams.usda.gov/nosbmeetings in advance of its spring meeting in Albuquerque, NM, May 22-25.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2011
News Release: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Caribbean Division, announced the arrest of two individuals in possession crack, cocaine of multiple firearms and ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2011
News Release: Agreement Reached on Federal Budget Allows the Park to Stay Open.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Hawk Field Services LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Houston-based Petrohawk Energy Corporation, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Little Rock, Ark., to charges stemming from the illegal take of endangered species in north-central Arkansas, the Department of Justice and the U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay a $21.4 million criminal penalty as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve improper payments by J&J subsidiaries to government officials in Greece, Poland and Romania in violation of the Foreign Corrupt ...
