News from October 2011
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore is currently recruiting and accepting applications for Winter Wildlife Docent Volunteers for the winter of 2012. Winter Wildlife Docents help strengthen the connection with and foster stewardship of Point Reyes National Seashore among park visitors by helping visitors view...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: Washington -Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will lead the U.S. delegation to the Sixth Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas in San José, Costa Rica, October 19-21. The theme of the ministerial is “Innovation for Sustainable, Competitive and Inclusive Agriculture.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: FT. WORTH, TX. -- - Following a year-long Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation into narcotics trafficking in North and East Fort Worth, law enforcement arrested eight members and associates of the Crips criminal street gang on October 19th. The narcotics trafficking charges...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) will begin posting a daily update of the quantity of refined sugar that has been entered against the fiscal year 2011 refined sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). This information will be sourced from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which maintains the record of entries for this TRQ.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a New York Times report that says mortgage lenders and borrowers are facing+Table1[[#Headers],[body_value]] new risks and conflicts when natural gas extraction occurs on mortgaged land,A24 Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today released the investigative letters he sent to Fannie Mae...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bipartisan legislation to strengthen national and homeland security by encouraging government-wide integration of Executive branch employees working in those areas cleared the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday. The bill is sponsored by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Healthcare, DC, Census and National Archives of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, hosted a forum on October 17 in Chicago, IL to highlight the impact of federal and localized drug prevention and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Ray Olivis, a/k/a Ronnie Hargrove, Uncle Ray, Unc and Ray Ray, age 57, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to 11 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to conduct and participate in the activities...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the appearance of the potentially invasive plant is linked to the final resting places of several members of a royal Gypsy family.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is issuing new rules to prohibit the use of fireworks and other explosive devices on all public lands in Colorado. These new rules bring BLM regulations in line with other land management agencies such as the United States Forest Service and National Park Service.These new...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) wrote to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler renewing their request for all internal White House communications related to Solyndra. The White House recently...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups to hold a third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one-day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: EL PASO, TX -- - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that a federal jury this afternoon returned a guilty verdict against an El Paso pharmacist for illegally dispensing controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups to hold a third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one-day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee mark up of legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) will continue TOMORROW at 8 A.M. The comprehensive bill reflects 10 months of bipartisan negotiations between Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: The Capitol Reef National Park visitor center will be changing to winter hours of operation starting Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. The visitor center will be open from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily except for Thanksgiving Nov. 24, Christmas Dec. 25, and New Year's Day Jan. 1, Dr. Martin Luther King JR. Day celebrated January 16 and Presidents Day February 20.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: Washington- Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Committee Member Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) today issued the following statements after seven American solar panel manufacturers filed an anti-dumping and countervailing duty case with the Department of Commerce regarding Chinese subsidies to its domestic solar panel industry that are harming U.S. manufacturers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, NY. - Wilbert L. Plummer, Acting 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 the arrests today of Fernando DeJesus, Efrain DeJesus, Felix Rodriguez, Carol...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) wrote to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler renewing their request for all internal White House communications related to Solyndra. The White House recently...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) wrote to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler renewing their request for all internal White House communications related to Solyndra. The White House recently...
