News from February 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WAUKEGAN, IL. - The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office have arrested and charged five individuals in a drug distribution operation. The investigation began in December of 2010 with information received by the DEA that a ranch, located at 40058 Route 45 in unincorporated...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park has announced that the Cataloochee Campground in North Carolina will go live on Recreation.gov on February 9. Under this system, campers will be required to make advanced reservations to stay at the 27-site campground when it reopens for the season on March 11. Historically, the popular but remote campground operated on a first-come-first-served basis, but this method will no longer be used in the future.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Dear Mayor Bloomberg: I understand that New York City is in the process of selecting a new design for the City’s 13,000 taxis under the “Taxi of Tomorrow" project. I have also learned that the City is putting great emphasis on making its future taxi fleet wheelchair accessible by dramatically increasing...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: U.S. Congressman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), Chairman of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor reported the national unemployment rate was 9 percent in the month of January...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WRANGELL-ST. SUBSISTENCE RESOURCE COMMISSION MEETING. DRAFT AGENDA. March 1-2, 2011. Ahtna Cultural Center, NPS Complex, Copper Center, AK. The Superintendent of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and the Chairman of the Subsistence Resource Commission (SRC) announce a forthcoming meeting of the Wrangell-St.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 101,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan. Of the total 50,500 tons is for delivery in 2010/2011 marketing year and 50,500 tons is for delivery during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today made the following statement after the Obama Administration allowed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel to begin the process to collectively bargain.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled his Chairman’s Mark for the Airport and Airway Trust Fund Reauthorization Act of 2011 and announced the committee would consider the legislation this Tuesday, February 8, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: BOISE, IDAHO - Mark Thomas, Acting Special Agent in Charge announced that James Toliver Latham, 23, and Ryan J. Simmons, 22, both of Twin Falls, Idaho, were sentenced this week for conspiracy to traffic oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: LEAVENWORTH, KS. - A Kansas City, KS, man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for his role in a heroin trafficking ring that caused the deaths of users in Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Johnson counties, according to a news release from the office of United States Attorney Barry Grissom.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Copper Center, AK - The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission will meet at the Ahtna Cultural Center in the NPS Visitor Center Complex in Copper Center on Tuesday, March 1, and Wednesday, March 2, to consider a range of issues related to subsistence hunting and fishing in the park.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 101,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China. Of the total 50,500 tons is for delivery in 2010/2011 marketing year and 50,500 tons is for delivery during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA - The leader of a South Los Angeles street gang, who was convicted of organizing and leading a wide-ranging conspiracy to manufacture and distribute large quantities of the drug phencyclidine - better known as PCP - was sentenced today to life without parole in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - Lisette Lee, 29, of Los Angeles, California and Frank S. Edwards, 40, of Hacienda, California, each plead guilty in United States District Court today to conspiring to transport 14 separate shipments of large quantities of marijuana from Los Angeles to Columbus, Ohio on a private jet.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper today outlined a plan for the two governments to work cooperatively to establish a security vision that will foster and support economic development and security for both countries. U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made the following statement about the initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today following the Treasury Department’s issuance of its semi-annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE - - Marisol Perez-Almonte, 28, of Renton, Washington, and Joan Luis Azamar-Sanchez, 31, of Seattle, Washington, were each sentenced to 10 year prison terms today in U.S. District Court in Seattle for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Perez-Almonte was convicted by a jury in November 2010, following...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, expressed support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision today to deregulate Roundup Ready alfalfa, but cautioned that flaws in the current biotechnology regulatory system, caused by multiple lawsuits, must be addressed to provide certainty for industry investors, farmers and consumers.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today restated his commitment to serious, substantive, and substantial oversight of the executive branch, industry, and all matters within the committee’s purview. Upton’s comments come in response to...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, reacted...
