News from December 2012
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement condemning North Korea’s missile launch, the regime’s second rocket launch this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: DENVER - Barbra M. Roach, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Denver Field Division, Scott W. Storey, District Attorney for the Colorado First Judicial District, and Ted Mink, Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado announce the dismantlement of an interstate methamphetamine and cocaine smuggling enterprise operating in Colorado, Arizona, and California.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cooperative research and development agreement to develop, test, and deploy a dynamic simulator and operator training system (OTS) could eventually help commercialize important carbon capture technologies at the nation’s power plants.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is now accepting applications for seasonal fire jobs for the summer of 2013. Non-fire opportunities will also be available, with applications accepted starting January 7. Non-fire positions are in the fields of law enforcement, archaeology, recreation, biology, forestry...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: When it comes to selecting spray equipment to combat harmful insects that threaten the health of deployed soldiers, military personnel can turn to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to find out which devices work best.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2012
News Release: In observance of the upcoming holidays War in the Pacific National Historical Park will be closed on Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012 and New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Closed park facilities include the T. Stell Newman Visitor Center, restrooms at Asan Beach Unit and Ga’an Point, and the gate to the Asan Bay Overlook.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2012
News Release: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was appointed chair this week in Abu Dhabi of the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an international alliance of 18 law enforcement agencies and private sector partners dedicated to combating online child sexual abuse. ICE is a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2012 –United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today issued the following statement in response to Russia's new requirements that U.S. beef and pork exports to Russia be tested and certified free of the feed additive ractopamine: ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Long Beach, Calif. tomorrow, Dec. 8, to attend the memorial service for U.S. Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne and join U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert Papp, Jr. to express their condolences to the family of Senior Chief Horne.”
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today awarded five grants totaling $4.5 million in support of research to improve the production of the common bean, a main staple produced throughout food insecure areas of the world, including East and Southern Africa. The awards ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a joint public workshop on Dec. 10, 2012, to explore the impact of patent assertion entity (PAE) activities on innovation and competition and the implications for antitrust enforcement and policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: AGUA CALIENTE, Calif. – U.S. Department of Justice Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West today addressed tribal leaders, law enforcement officers, lawyers and judges, policy experts and health and social services providers, and representatives from federal, state, local and tribal governments following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Barrington Coombs, 58, of Weston, Fla., was sentenced today to serve a year and a day in prison for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that victimized desperate homeowners on the brink of losing their homes, the Justice Department announced. Coombs was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise as a member of the Playboy Bloods criminal street gang, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the November 2012 Employment Situation report released today: "Our nation added 146,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in November, while the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, its lowest level since December 2008.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit to recover losses suffered by participants in the Rembar Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan after the plan allegedly was allowed to purchase overvalued company stock. The suit names as defendants Rembar owner and CEO Frank Firor and First Bankers Trust Services Inc., which was hired as an independent fiduciary and trustee in connection with the company's newly formed plan. The plan is also a defendant.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 7, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 7, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 7, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 7, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
