News from June 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park. This week’s National Park Getaway. MINERAL, Calif. - Gray and buff-colored mountainsides slope downward, occasionally interrupted by milky patches of snow and often scored by conical evergreens. In quasi-infernal realms, steam rises from rock-strewn ground, and pools of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: The hills of southwestern Virginia will be filled with the sound of music on Saturday evening, July 2nd, as Dickenson County, Virginia natives Jimmy Mullins and Ken Childress take to the stage at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Forty years of performing together and this dynamic music duo has...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released the following statement on President Obama’s comments at his press conference today on Operation Fast and Furious...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are further expanding their investigation of the now 3-year unsolved case of toxic and sometimes lethal contaminated heparin supplies that were imported from China and given to U.S. patients. Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman Emeritus...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Two of the leading congressional voices on privacy issues today announced plans for the first in a series of hearings in the coming months to examine how information is collected, protected, and utilized in an increasingly interconnected online ecosystem. Rep. Mary Bono Mack, chairman...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) announced the Senate’s passage of bipartisan legislation to clear the backlog of stalled executive nominations by permanently exempting a range of positions from Senate...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on a proposal to provide grant funding through the Water Conservation Field Services Program (WCFSP) to the City of St. George and Washington County Water Conservancy District, Utah; Lake Havasu City, Arizona; and other applicants within the planning area that encompasses southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, southwestern Utah, and Needles, Calif.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are further expanding their investigation of the now 3-year unsolved case of toxic and sometimes lethal contaminated heparin supplies that were imported from China and given to U.S. patients. Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman Emeritus...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that nearly half a million beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit program have saved $260 million. This amounts to an average savings of $546 per beneficiary.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: John F. Kennedy said, “To the extent that some people are dishonest or careless in their dealings with the government, the majority is forced to carry a heavier burden.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Madrid and Vienna on June 30-July 1 to meet with her international counterparts to discuss collaborative efforts between the United States and its partners to effectively ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The fifth defendant charged in relation to an Internet-based child pornography trafficking ring that specialized in images depicting the sexual abuse of young girls was sentenced yesterday to seven years in federal prison, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Andre Birotte Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed the confirmation of James Cole, as Deputy Attorney General; Lisa Monaco, as Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and Virginia Seitz, as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel. All three were confirmed today by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal U.S. Army equipment related to his work as a non-commissioned officer helping to train Iraqi army personnel in Mosul, Iraq, in 2008, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON— The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with Beach Babies Learning Center LLC, located in Old Saybrook, Conn., to resolve allegations that the center terminated the enrollment of a then two-year-old child from its program because the child has autism. Based upon a c ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with Van Buren County, Ark., 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 | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Dr. Arvind Ahuja of Greendale, Wis., was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Milwaukee on four counts of willfully filing materially false tax returns and four counts of failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs), the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Natchez, Miss., Police Department Officer Dewayne Johnson, 33, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit identity theft, credit card fraud and bank fraud by agreeing with his cousin to illegally use credit and debit cards stolen from an arrestee in Johnson’s custody, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 28, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement actions: First Chatsworth Bankshares, Inc. (54 KB PDF), Chatsworth, Georgia Written Agreement dated June 22, 2011 First National Bancshares of Central Alabama, Inc. (55 KB PDF), Aliceville, Alabama Written Agreement ...
