News from August 2011
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Thanks to the 2010 recipients of the Appleman-Judd-Lewis Awards for Excellence in Cultural Resource Stewardship and Management, the conservation of five Florida parks’ museum collections has improved, disadvantaged youths have received an introduction to historic preservation, and visitors to the Chesapeake...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned a collection of 67 artifacts illegally imported into the United States from the Dominican Republic. The objects were discovered as part of several investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and CBP - one in Jacksonville and Orlando, Fla. and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the other in Memphis, Tenn.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today the reopening of Bodie Island Spit to off-road vehicle (ORV) use as the shorebird nesting season comes to a close in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. On Bodie Island Spit, the shoreline access corridor south of Ramp 4 to Oregon Inlet reopened to ORV and pedestrian...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Video of the results of the Good Morning America Most Beautiful Places competition.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: In response to the new regulations concerning hog hunting recently announced by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Big South Fork Superintendent Niki Nicholas is announcing the policy for Big South Fork NRRA dealing with hog hunting. The hog hunting season will extend from Sept. 24, 2011, until...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - As Dutch Royal Shell today admitted the worst oil spill in the United Kingdom in a decade could become four times greater than it is now, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over offshore drilling, issued the following...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau announces the final hunt closures on Santa Rosa Island from August 28 to Dec. 31, 2011. The non-native deer and elk will be eliminated from the island by the end of 2011 per a court settlement.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Lowell, MA-Education Committee members of the National Park Service Advisory Board, appointed by the Director of the National Park Service, will, for the first time, meet and tour the historic city of Lowell to learn of interpretation and education programming in Lowell and the Service as a whole, August...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2011
News Release: Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Present Generous Contributions to Park Support Groups.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to New York City on Thursday, Aug. 18 to participate in an International Association of Firefighters ceremony honoring the fallen firefighters who sacrificed their lives following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. More details on the trip will be released once they are finalized."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Taleo Corp. has agreed to pay the United States $6.49 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a lawsuit in an Iowa federal court against a Des Moines, Iowa, metro area company, Advanced Underground Construction LLC and its principal, William David Ward II, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction suit asks the court to stop the defendants’ alleged repeated failures to pay to the U.S. employment taxes that are withheld from employees’ wages.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A 15-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Camden, N.J., was unsealed today following the arrest of six individuals from New Jersey and Maryland, and the seizure or restraint of 10 oyster fishing boats in New Jersey, announced Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with Montgomery County, Md., and Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A retired colonel in the U.S. Army was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for her role in a scheme to pay bribes for contracts awarded in support of the Iraq war, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Coastal Bankshares, Inc. (PDF), Savannah, Georgia Written Agreement dated Aug. 10, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 16, 2011
News Release: The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released data on new residential construction for July 2011. Permits for new housing units fell 3.2 percent following a small increase in June. Private-sector analysts had expected a 1.8-percent decline. The decrease was driven by multi-family homes ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 16, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 16, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 16, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
