News from January 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2012
News Release: Today a team of ten searched from Paradise up the Muir Snowfield to Camp Muir without locating either of the parties. Eight of the team members skied back down to Paradise, searching along the way. Friday morning there may be a short weather window for the two searchers remaining at Camp Muir to search under better conditions before the next storm arrives midday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2012
News Release: Camp/Baucus Statement on White House Trade Agency Reorganization.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has discovered what may be an effective tool for cleaning up soils and waterways in parts of California's San Joaquin Valley: a drought-tolerant cactus.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan at the White House to meet with senior ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the launch of a USDA energy website that will provide stakeholders fast and efficient access to USDA energy efficiency and renewable energy data. Today's announcement builds on the Secretary's commitment to develop a modern and efficient service organization as outlined in USDA's Blueprint for Stronger Service announced last week.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Funding Will Help Producers, Landowners and Communities Rebuild and Repair Damaged Land after Year of Extreme Weather WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today an important package of disaster assistance to help farmers, land owners, communities and others recover and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: The United States has sued Larry Carnell Dixon Sr., seeking to bar him and his business, Dixon’s Tax Service, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Barrio Azteca (BA) gang member pleaded guilty today for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman for the Western District of Texas, FBI Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division Kevin Perkins and Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Tracey Fergerson pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody in Montgomery, Ala., to conspiring to defraud the United States government. Fergerson and a co-defendant were charged by a grand jury in a 22-count indictment that was unsealed on Mar. 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that the comprehensive grant solicitation for funding to support improvements to public safety, victim services and crime prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native communities will be posted at 3:00 p.m. EST today at www.justice.gov/tribal/open-sol.html.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Philip Butcher pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz in Miami to filing a false claim for a tax refund, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: A federal grand jury in Muskogee, Okla., has indicted Jerrod Porter Lane, 26, former detention officer at the Muskogee County Jail (MCJ) in Oklahoma, on six charges related to two separate assaults of an inmate housed at MCJ and the subsequent attempts to cover up his behavior, all during October 2011. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Thomas Gleason, 24, was sentenced today in federal court for his role in the arson of the predominately African-American Macedonia Church of God in Christ just hours after the election of President Barack Obama. Gleason was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to 54 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. Gleason was also ordered to pay over $1.7 million in restitution, including $123,570 to the Macedonia Church of God in Christ.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Robert Ilunga, 48, of Naugatuck, Conn., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford, Conn., to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced David B. Fein, U.S. Attorney ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson met today with Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Industry Dr. Mahmoud Eisa at the Commerce Department to discuss U.S. support for Egyptian economic development. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco J. Sánchez also joined the meeting.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Mandated full-time unpaid leave violated Family and Medical Leave Act SAN ANTONIO Bexar County Hospital District, doing business as University Health System in San Antonio, has agreed to pay a former employee $7,915 in back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that the hospital had placed the worker on full-time unpaid leave, in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Employees of New England grocery chain exposed to fall and laceration dangers BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's regional solicitor's office in Boston has filed a complaint against DeMoulas Super Markets Inc., doing business as Market Basket, with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $5 million National Emergency Grant increment to continue providing temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers. They will assist with cleanup and recovery efforts following severe storms and floods in April and May 2011 that affected southeastern Ohio.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 18, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jan 18, 2012
The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
