News from August 2012

By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2012
News Release: Just before 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11, Grand Teton National Park rangers rescued a climber from Teewinot Mountain (elevation 12,325 feet) who was exhibiting acute physical distress. A 53-year-old climber, and resident of Rock Island, Illinois, became ill and incapable of completing a descent from Teewinot after he and two male companions successfully summited the Teton peak early Saturday afternoon.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2012
News Release: While conducting an afternoon scenic float trip on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, a Triangle X Ranch river guide rescued five female boaters after their 12-foot Tributary raft hit a downed tree lodged in a channel near the historic Bar BC Ranch and flipped upside down. All five rafters...

By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2012
News Release: A Chevy Astro van carrying four people careened into the Gros Ventre River after getting side-swiped by a Jeep on Highway 26/89/191 near Gros Ventre Junction in Grand Teton National Park Friday afternoon, August 10. The driver of the van, Joanna Woodruff, a Teton Science Schools employee, steered her...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security today announced the official launch of its redesigned website, www.dhs.gov. The website offers a simplified and unified approach to DHS.gov’s content, creating a more consistent look and feel throughout the site, and streamlining access to DHS services and information.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today met with Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Morales Troncoso and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: A federal court in Central Islip, N.Y., has permanently barred Diana D. Bertocci-Aliffi from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Aliffi agreed without admitting the government’s allegations, was signed by Judge Joanna Seybert of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department released a letter of findings today determining that the Lauderdale County Youth Court, the Meridian Police Department (MPD), and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services (DYS) are violating the constitutional rights of juveniles in Meridian, Miss. The department’s investigation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Munster, Ind., man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to serve 48 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that involved operation of an online identity theft business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred a Michigan couple, Damian and Holly Jackson, of Detroit, from preparing federal tax returns for others, preparing their own federal tax returns using false 1099 forms, and promoting an alleged tax-fraud scheme based on the frivolous “redemption” theory, the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: The Department of Justice announced the guilty plea and sentencing of Easley, S.C.-based Altec Medical for engaging in a multi-million dollar prescription drug scheme. Altec Medical pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Miami to one count of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and to commit federal offenses in connection with a drug-diversion scheme that lasted from 2007 to 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: James W. Carell, CareAll Management LLC (formerly known as Diversifi ed He alth Mana gement Inc.), C are All Inc., the James W. Car ell Family Trust, V IP Home Nursing and Reh abilitation Servi ces L LC, Professional Home He alth Care L LC, University Home H ealth, LLC and Elizabeth Vining (as representative ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: Richard Kellogg Armstrong, 77, of Prescott, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Blackburn ordered the sentence to run con secutively to the 660 day prison term and $1,021,500 of fines ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.