News from August 2011
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, August 16th at 1:00 p.m. EST, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) will join Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District for a field hearing entitled “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA-- - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Son Nguyen, 41, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to distributing both methamphetamine and MDMA or (a popular club drug).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: MANHATTAN, NY. - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement ("DEA") and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, an international narcotics trafficker and money launderer...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Friday, Aug. 19, 2011 will be a Family Fun Day at Wright Brothers National Memorial as the National Park Service and partners celebrates National Aviation Day. National Aviation Day has, historically, been proclaimed as a day of national observance. August 19 was selected as National Aviation Day because...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Road surfacing and improvement work has been completed for the Glenn Springs, Maverick, and Pine Canyon backcountry roads within Big Bend National Park. These roads and the campsites along these roads have been re-opened to traffic for visitor enjoyment. The work on these roads included the addition of concrete mats in a low water crossing area on Maverick Road, as well as rock crushing and grading portions of Glenn Springs Road and the entirety of Pine Canyon Road.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement on today’s ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: MADISON, WI. - - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that six men have been charged today in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court with manufacturing marijuana. The criminal complaint alleges that the defendants cultivated a large marijuana grow operation in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, over a several acre area that is located in Ashland County, approximately 25 miles northwest of Park Falls, Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Ranking Members of the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and the Judiciary wrote to Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa urging him to withdraw his unilateral subpoena demanding documents from the National Labor Relations Board relating to its investigation of Boeing’s alleged discrimination against workers in Washington State.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Released by the U.S. Geological Survey.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) released the following statements after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the individual mandate included in President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Fire Being Managed for Multiple Objective; Fire at 715 Acres.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury for their progress establishing Affordable Insurance Exchanges, the new state-based marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on which individuals,...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: EL PASO, TX -- - Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Division, Special Agent in Charge David Cuthbertson, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s El Paso Division and United States Attorney John E. Murphy and announced the arrests of 29-year-old Rogelio Macias...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Born to Ananias and Eleanor Dare on August 18th, 1587, Virginia Dare was the first child born to English parents in the New World. Since 1937, her birthday has been remembered and celebrated annually on Roanoke Island. At this year’s Virginia Dare’s Birthday Celebration on Aug. 18, activities will be taking place on the grounds at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and at the Elizabethan Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, and Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced the sentencing of the last defendant in a federal cocaine trafficking conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Arizona-The Point Fire experienced moderate low-intensity growth this week due to a warmer and dryer weather trend with occasional cloud cover. The Tipover Fire, discovered Aug. 3, also experienced minimal low-intensity growth. A third fire, the Over Fire, was discovered August 9, approximately...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: Wrangell-St. Elias to begin Fuels Project in McCarthy.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) released the following statements after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the individual mandate included in President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion in enforcing consumer product safety laws. The legislation makes immediate and targeted changes to a flawed 2008 law that would have forced...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Park rangers at Lake Mead will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Sunday, Aug. 21 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Lakeshore Road in the area of Las Vegas Bay.
