News from June 2011
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today the Environment and Public Works Committee approved bipartisan legislation, S. 76, the Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities From Disease Clusters Act, to help communities determine whether there is a connection between "clusters" of cancer, birth defects and other ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today the Environment and Public Works Committee approved bipartisan legislation, S. 76, the Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities From Disease Clusters Act, to help communities determine whether there is a connection between "clusters" of cancer, birth defects and other ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2011
News Release: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ANNOUNCES RANGER CONDUCTED PROGRAMS THIS SUMMER.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Acting Administrator Suzanne Heinen will represent USDA at the 10th annual U.S.-Sub-Saharan African Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Lusaka, Zambia, from June 9-10, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -- A ship management company headquartered in Greece that operated a 29,414 - ton cargo ship that made calls in multiple ports in Texas pleaded guilty and was sentenced late yesterday in federal court in Corpus Christi for deliberately concealing pollution discharges from the ship directly into the sea and for failing to notify the U. S. Coast Guard of numerous safety hazards on board the vessel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Midtown Imaging LLC, a radiology clinic, and its former owners Midtown Imaging P.A. and PBC Medical Imaging have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that the clinic violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. The West Palm Beach clinic is alleged to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daniel B. Birkbeck, 46, of North Stonington, Conn., was charged today in federal court with trafficking in and falsifying records for illegally harvested Atlantic Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore., – The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a civil investigation into allegations of use of excessive force by members of the Portland, Ore., Police Bureau (PPB), in accordance with the pattern or practice provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Md., indicted Alfred Edwards and Gloria Edwards, both of Upper Marlboro, Md., on charges arising from a scheme to compel the labor and domestic service of a Filipina national.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daniel B. Birkbeck, 46, of North Stonington, Conn., was charged today in federal court with trafficking in and falsifying records for illegally harvested Atlantic Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis). Commercial fishing for striped bass in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island is governed by a ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a report that proposes voluntary codes of conduct to strengthen the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly rely on the Internet to do business, but are not part of the critical infrastructure sector. The report, Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: “Today’s strong bipartisan approval of S. 911 by the Senate Commerce Committee is a critical step forward in realizing the President’s commitment to “win the future” through increased innovation in and access to wireless broadband technologies. I commend Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Hutchison for ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Labor today filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services' Child Protective Services Division in Austin for failing to pay 800 current and former investigators and case workers overtime compensation as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. The suit seeks back wages of more than $1 million, plus liquidated damages.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: HAMMONTON, N.J. — In two separate actions, administrative law judges have ordered Columbia Fruit Farms Inc., its owners Anthony DiMeo and William DiMeo, and crew leader Sorel Rinvil to pay $28,449 plus interest in civil money penalties to resolve violations found during investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division dating back to 2008.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced a competition for grants totaling more than $5 million through the U.S. Department of Labor's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program to provide approximately 3,000 homeless veterans with job training and other services to help them succeed in civilian careers.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2011
News Release: PORT ARTHUR, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that Michael Doggett, business representative for the Carpenters Local Union 502 in Port Arthur, has been sentenced to five months in prison and ordered to make $39,324 in restitution payments for embezzling from a union benefit plan.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jun 8, 2011
The US State Department published a three page notice on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jun 8, 2011
The US State Department published a two page notice on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
