News from September 2011
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: FARMINGTON - The Friends of Fort Necessity will present the Legends of Fort Necessity on Saturday evening, Oct. 15, 2011. This special program is the October installment of the Friends of Fort Necessity Lecture Series and will highlight the history of the Braddock's 1755 campaign to the Forks of the Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending the deadline for submitting membership nominations to the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH). OSHA is extending the deadline because of a lack of qualified candidates being nominated for membership. The deadline has been extended to Oct. 31, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today announced the arrests of 17 of 23 suspected members of a large scale cocaine trafficking organization. This organization has smuggled over 1,300 kilograms of cocaine into the United States since April 2011, with a street value estimated to be between $25,622,500 and $33,825,000.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: A series of small research burns will be conducted on D-Ranch in Point Reyes National Seashore as part of a collaborative project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to restore the endangered Showy Indian Clover (Trifolium amoenum) to coastal grasslands. Clover fields were a food source for...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to news that al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: Region 6 News Release: 11-1406-DAL. Sept. 30, 2011. Contact: Elizabeth Todd Juan Rodriguez. Phone: 972-850-4710 972-850-4709. Email: todd.elizabeth@dol.gov rodriguez.juan@dol.gov. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Houston, Texas-based...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, the Ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following reaction to the news that Anwar al-Awlaki was killed today in northern Yemen.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: Washington -USDA today announced an increase to the FY 2011 refined sugar TRQ of 150,000 short tons raw value (STRV). USDA has also extended the date this sugar is eligible to enter the United States to Nov. 30, 2011.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: Region 6 News Release: 11-1408-DAL. Sept. 30, 2011. Contact: Elizabeth Todd Juan Rodriguez. Phone: 972-850-4710 972-850-4709. Email: todd.elizabeth@dol.gov rodriguez.juan@dol.gov. HOUSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with Houston-based Goodman Manufacturing Co. LP...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: Lowell, MA - A new exhibit on Lowell native and writer Jack Kerouac will open to the public on Thursday, October 6, at 5:00 pm in line with the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival. The exhibit is a new permanent installation at Lowell National Historical Park's Visitor Center. The colorful exhibit...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies spent four hours looking for a Bullhead City, Ariz., man who fled park rangers during a traffic stop at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The man identified as Darren Eugene Morrison, 26, was pulled over by park rangers for erratic driving.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2011
News Release: (Munising, Mich.) Photographer Paul Petersen from Muskegon, Michigan, has been selected as the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Artist In Residence for 2011.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: SOMERVILLE, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Koppers Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., for seven serious and two repeat violations for exposing workers to a variety of safety hazards at the company's plant on County Road 423 in Somerville, Texas. Proposed penalties total $78,100.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., a supplier of automotive wire harnesses and related products, headquartered in Tokyo, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $200 million fine for its role in a criminal price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracy involving the sale of parts to automobile manufacturers, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Hana A. Beshara, 29, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty today for her role in founding NinjaVideo.net, a website that provided millions of users with the ability to illegally download infringing copies of copyright-protected movies and television programs in high-quality formats.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Science Applications International Inc. (SAIC); its subcontractor, Applied Enterprise Solutions LLC (AES); AES CEO Dale Galloway; and former government employees Stephen Adamec and Robert Knesel will pay the United States $22,676,000 to resolve allegations of false claims in a whistleblower suit, the Justice Department announced today. SAIC will pay $20,400,000 and AES and Dale Galloway will pay $2,166,000. Adamec and Knesel are paying $110,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., yesterday found Manuel Rodriguez guilty of fraud in connection with a coffee machine business opportunity scheme, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. After a two-week trial in which 14 witnesses took the stand, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Massachusetts individuals were charged in separate cases today with child pornography offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts and Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Division.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: The Obama administration today announced the six winners of the i6 Green Challenge, an initiative to drive technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in support of a green innovation economy, increased U.S. competitiveness and new jobs.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced $1 million in grant funds to eight organizations that provide education and training within the mining industry. The Brookwood-Sago grants program was established through a provision in the Mine Improvement ...
