News from June 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Plan a visit to Everglades National Park this month and stop by the Visitor Center's rotating Art Exhibit to enjoy the work of Artist Joseph Weinzettle who explores use of traditional and natural materials for his art. Weinzettle created some really unique pieces during his time as an Artist in Residence...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: (Kipahulu) Haleakala National Park confirms that a fatal mishap involving a visitor occurred in the early afternoon of May 31st in the vicinity of Waimoku Falls on the popular Pipiwai Trail at the park's Kipahulu District in East Maui.Park staff were notified of the mishap by Maui County dispatchers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD. - A federal grand jury has indicted Dr. Joffre Erwin Robalino, 43, of Columbia, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. The indictment was returned on June 1, 2011, and unsealed yesterday at Dr. Robalino’s initial appearance. Dr. Robalino...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released “No Excuse to Shut Down an Industry, " a new video in which Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour underscores the far-reaching hardships Gulf residents face as a result of the Obama Administration’s response to the Deepwater...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches are being managed under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree.Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid-to-late-August and sea turtle nesting closures may...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Witnesses. Testimony of Haley Barbour. Governor . Mississippi. Testimony of Craig P. Taffaro. President. St. Bernard Parish. Louisiana. Testimony of Bill Williams. Commissioner of Gulf County. Florida. Testimony of Frank Rusco. Director of Energy and Science Issues. Government Accountability Office. Testimony...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Haleakalā National Park will be conducting hazardous tree and limb removal throughout Hosmer Grove beginning June 6, 2011. This popular and heavily forested area is susceptible to drought and high winds which contribute to natural hazards such as weak or dead limbs, standing dead trees or partially fallen...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Republican proposal to end the guarantee of federal unemployment insurance, passed out of the Ways and Means Committee in May on a party line vote, appears to be even more reckless than originally advertised. The Department of Labor, writing in response to a letter from Reps. Sander...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Porter, In- The United States Department of Federal Highways will close County Line Road Bridge in Miller to traffic early Thursday morning June 2 and will remain closed until early Sunday morning June 5, 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska- The Gilahina Fire has burned approximately 1,438 acres. Cooler temperatures, higher humidity and subsiding winds slowed the fire behavior to smoldering and creeping with isolated areas of torching on the northeast perimeter. The fire remains north of the Gilahina River. Crews secured the southwest flank and fire activity is being closely monitored. The Gannite Glacier, Norvik Type 2 and Helitak Crews are on the fire and will remain through June 3.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: The same precision farming techniques that work with crops can work with manure management on cattle feedlots, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is publishing a revision to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Potatoes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Get outdoors and try something different this National Trails Day - June 4, 2011. Join park staff and other volunteers for a day of clearing Rowdy Bend Trail in the Flamingo District of the park. Rowdy Bend Trail, (2.6 miles one way), is an overgrown road bed that passes through shady buttonwoods and...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks gave the following statement on the House floor during consideration of the Military Construction, VA Appropriations bill for FY2012 (H.R.2055).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: The National Park Foundation announced today that it is proud to award Fort Sumter National Monument a grant to support the launch of a program to promote African American pride in the 19th century brick making industry in Charleston, South Carolina. In partnership with the Brick Education and Research...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division; United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston; and Colonel Marian McGovern, Superintendent...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Enjoy a night of Hawaiian stories and star lore at the best observatory on Maui - Haleakala National Park!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Carterville man was sentenced on June 1, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, on a one count indictment charging him with Possession of a Listed (Pseudoephedrine) Knowing it Would Be Used to Manufacture a Controlled (Methamphetamine).
By State Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement on the death of Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief:
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks gave the following statement on the House floor during consideration of the Military Construction, VA Appropriations bill for FY2012 (H.R.2055).
