News from September 2011
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2011
News Release: Yosemite National Park's search for 69 year old Gene R. Hall concluded at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, when Hall was found dead in his tent. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but appears to be from natural causes. Searchers located the tent off-trail near Fletcher Lake, which is in...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2011
News Release: Damage assessment and clean-up are progressing more quickly than expected at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area announced Park Superintendent John J. Donahue this morning. The damage to park facilities caused by Hurricane Irene just over a week ago was extensive and widespread, but park employees...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Warm dry weather has led to increased activity and growth on the Point and Woolsey Fires. The Bright Fire has been contained.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2011
News Release: Yosemite National Park is searching for 69 year old Gene R. Hall, from Olympia, Washington. Hall was last seen in the Vogelsang area where he was hiking alone. He has been missing since Thursday, Sept. 1, when he failed to show up at his vehicle.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Today, increased activity on the lightning-ignited Woolsey Fire resulted in temporary road and trail closures on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon near Point Imperial. The Point Imperial Road is temporarily closed from the Fuller Canyon "Y" to Point Imperial. The Ken Patrick Trail is also closed temporarily between the Cape Royal Road and Forest Service Road 610.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -- Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce an expansion of the areas that are open for the public. Facility assessment teams have completed the initial review of the impacts of Hurricane Irene, park biologists have located and marked turtle nesting sites, and clean-up...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. -The challenging recovery operation to remove the body of Jacob "Jake" Rigby from a high alpine location in the southern end of the park was successful Saturday morning. Glacier National Park Chief Ranger and Incident Commander for the Rigby Incident Mark Foust said, "It was an extremely...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Declaraciones de la Secretaria Napolitano “As we approach the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the safety and security of the American public remains our highest priority. While threats remain, our nation is stronger than it was on 9/11, more prepared to confront evolving threats, and more resilient than ever before.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Opelika, Ala., has convicted a former deputy sheriff with the Russell County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office of a civil rights offense for his role in the assault of a handcuffed man, announced the Department of Justice. Timothy Andrew Watford, 42, of Phenix City, Ala., was found guilty of willfully depriving Patrick Harrington of his constitutional rights while acting under color of law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - The Justice Department announced today that Zachary Beck was sentenced to 51 months in prison for civil rights crimes related to his participation in a racially-motivated attack on an African-American man in Vancouver, Wash., in January 2010. Beck was also sentenced to three years supervised release. The sentencing took place in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Steven Scott Cantrell, of Crane, Texas, pleaded guilty today to hate crime charges stemming from a series of racially-motivated arsons in December 2010, including the arson of a historic African-American church as part of an effort to murder a disabled African-American man, the Justice Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five alleged members of the violent gang known as the East Side Los Guada Bloods (East Side Bloods) have been charged in an indictment returned yesterday in Phoenix with various racketeering and attempted murder charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that brothers Brian Wallis, 21, and James Lee Wallis Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime by intentionally attempting to intimidate African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, La. Tony L. Johnson, 30, previously pleaded guilty to the same offense.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the August 2011 Employment Situation report released today: "The private sector added 17,000 jobs in August, but those gains were offset by the loss of 17,000 government jobs. Total non-farm unemployment, therefore, was unchanged last month. The unemployment rate also remained unchanged at 9.1 percent.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 2, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Sep 2, 2011
The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2011
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 2, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Sept. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
