News from August 2011
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 28, 2011
News Release: STAMFORD, CT-Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Sunday issued the following statement on the impact Hurricane Irene has had on Connecticut and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s response. The Committee oversees issues regarding FEMA and the federal government’s disaster response operations.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2011
News Release: OVERTON, Nev. - The body of a 19-year-old Las Vegas man who is believed to have drowned was recovered at 4 p.m. by Las Vegas Metro Police Search and Rescue divers in about 12 feet of water. The National Park Service began searching for the man when he was reported missing by friends around 12:30 p.m. The man was swimming in the Echo Bay area of Lake Mead.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -The Cape Lookout National Seashore remains closed to all visitors (including overnight guests staying in the cabins and day visitors) and all services are shut down until further notice.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2011
News Release: OVERTON, Nev. - The National Park Service is searching for a 19-year-old Las Vegas man who went missing today at 12:30 p.m. while swimming near Echo Bay. Park rangers are searching the area by boat. Las Vegas Metro Police Search and Rescue dive team has been called in to search underwater. The area were the man was last seen is approximately 20 to 30 feet deep.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2011
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: The free concert by the United States 94th Army Rock Band, originally scheduled to perform on Saturday, August 27th from 6pm - 8pm at Springfield Armory National Historic Site (NHS), has been postponed due to weather and the impending threat of Hurricane Irene.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Stop.Think.Connect.™ campaign today announced a new partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, which serves nearly four million young people from across the country. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Richard Rosaire Routhier of Lake Worth, Fla., was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,243,574 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and the IRS announced today. On Apr. 25, 2011, Routhier pleaded guilty to a one-count information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge the Producers Guild of America’s proposed use of a voluntary certification system for film producers. Based on the representations made by the Guild, the department said that the proposed voluntary certification system ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed a complaint today against the city of Lilburn, Ga., alleging that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it rejected the Dar-E-Abbas Shia Islamic Center’s requests for rezoning to construct a mosque. Both ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli today announced the appointment Sri Srinivasan as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. The principal deputy handles some of the United States’ most important cases before the Supreme Court and serves as a key advisor to the Solicitor General.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with Kinro Manufacturing Inc. in Goshen, Ind., resolving allegations that the company engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against work-authorized non-citizens in the employment eligibility verification process. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Azikiwe Aquart, also known as “Z” and “Ziggy,” pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport, Conn., to three counts of murder in aid of racketeering stemming from his role in the murder of three Bridgeport residents in August 2005, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Fein for the District of Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jason Walter Barnwell, 37, of Evening Shade, Ark., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Ark., to charges related to his involvement in the Jan. 14, 2011, racially motivated firebombing of the home of a mixed-race couple in Hardy, Ark. Barnwell pleaded guilty to one count ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Miguel Angel Nevarez, aka “Lentes” and “94,” a member of the Barrio Azteca (BA) gang, has been extradited to the United States from Mexico to face a variety of charges including those related to his alleged participation in the Mar. 13, 2010, murders of three individuals with ties to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Roger Charles Day Jr. was found guilty late yesterday of leading an international conspiracy to sell more than $4.4 million in nonconforming and defective parts to the Department of Defense (DOD).
By Fed Newswire | Aug 26, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it will hold three public meetings on the notice by Capital One Financial Corporation, McLean, Virginia, to acquire ING Bank, Wilmington, Delaware, and indirectly to acquire shares of Sharebuilder Advisors, LLC, and ING Direct Investing, Inc., both of ...
By DOE Gazette | Aug 26, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 26, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 26, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 26, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
