News from January 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2012
News Release: SULPHUR, OK-Chickasaw NRA will begin a series of prescribed fires starting in mid-February and lasting until April (depending on weather conditions). The fires will be conducted by a management team consisting of firefighters from Chickasaw NRA, Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Meredith...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2012
News Release: Stones River National Battlefield worked with a local high school to produce short, interpretive films for its website. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, McGavock Comprehensive High School is the largest public high school in Tennessee and has a diverse student population. The battlefield partnered with...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2012
News Release: 15th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2012
News Release: In August 1999, the Peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon's comeback from the brink of extinction. However, throughout Texas, there are less than a dozen known nesting pairs and the falcon remains on the state's endangered species list.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 ─ Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 24 university students who will attend USDA's 2012 Agricultural Outlook Forum. The finalists include students from Land-Grant, Hispanic-serving institutions, and American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 27, 2012 – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack held a roundtable meeting today with local business owners and agricultural leaders to discuss the vision laid out in President Obama's State of the Union address that will help grow the Missouri economy. This meeting provided Secretary Vilsack with an opportunity to hear directly from Missourians on how to best implement the President's blueprint for an economy built to last.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 27, 2012 – U.S. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan joined business leaders today to highlight the vision laid out in President Obama's State of the Union address that will help grow the Florida economy. Deputy Secretary Merrigan emphasized the importance of American manufacturing, homegrown energy development, education, and rewarding hard work and responsibility as a blueprint for an economy built to last.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder along with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director of Enforcement Robert Khuzami and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the formation of the Residential Mortgage-Backed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former owner and operator of a Florida-based airline services company was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison and to pay restitution for conspiring to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud in a kickback scheme to defraud Ryan International Airlines, a charter airline company located in Rockford, Ill., the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred Lakeisha Pearson from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s civil injunction complaint alleged that Pearson, of Birmingham, Ala., operated under the trade names “LGS Tax Service,” “PositiveEndeavors LLC,” ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jeffery K. Armstrong, 52, of South Riding, Va., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments by fraudulently holding concurrent jobs at the United Nations (U.N.) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He was ordered to serve a three-year term of supervised release following his sentence and to pay $128,153 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Bradley Branscum, 23, and Tony Branscum, 26, who are first cousins, of Salado, Ark., and Curtis Coffee, 19, of Batesville, Ark., were sentenced for charges relating to their roles in burning a cross in the yard of an African-American resident on Aug. 28, 2010. Tony Branscum was sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that Jason Barnwell, 37, of Evening Shade, Ark., was sentenced in Little Rock, Ark., for his involvement in firebombing the residence of an interracial couple. On Aug. 26, 2011, Barnwell pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the civil rights of ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Remarks at Columbus Economic Development Roundtable, Columbus, Ohio Thank you, Henry (Cialone), for that kind introduction.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released the advance estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2011. Real GDP rose 2.8 percent at an annual rate, up from 1.8 percent in the third quarter. Real GDP for 2011 overall grew 1.7 percent. The increase ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today on union members in 2011: "Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, in 2011, the unionization rate of employed wage and salary workers was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010. Among private sector employees, the rate remained at 6.9 percent.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 27, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 27, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 27, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 27, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
