News from May 2012
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: As of Friday, June 1, 2012, the Coast Trail at Point Reyes National Seashore will be closed from the Point Reyes Hostel to Coast campground to all public access (foot, bike and stock) until further notice. The trail has become impassable due to water and mud and has become an unsafe condition for park visitors.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: Everglades National Park is hosting an exciting new photography exhibit entitled, Three Views of the Everglades. The exhibit will be in place from June 2-June 30th, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: Fee Free Day Marks National Get Outdoors Day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) hosted Dr. Olivia Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Riot of 1921 and a notable professor and the first African American woman to enlist in the United States Coast Guard. Dr. Hooker, along with Harvard Law Professor Charles ...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Bone fragments found in Glacier National Park last summer have been analyzed by the National Missing Person's Program at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification and identified as those of Yi-Jien Hwa, a hiker missing in the park since the summer of 2008.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a hearing to examine “International Proposals to Regulate the Internet." Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, along with Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a hearing to examine “International Proposals to Regulate the Internet." Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, along with Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member...
By EPA Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a hearing to examine “International Proposals to Regulate the Internet." Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, along with Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and 42 other Democratic members of Congress delivered a letter to President Barack Obama, urging the President to defend a U.S. law that has stopped the slaughter of millions of dolphins in the Pacific Ocean.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2012
News Release: Republicans have returned to a familiar foil - again resurrecting their attack on health reform with several of the bills before us today.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: KEYSTONE, S.D. - The preservation team at Mount Rushmore National Memorial will be working on the sculpture beginning Thursday, May 31. Visitors can expect to see members of the preservation team visible on the faces and the mountain conducting preservation monitoring. Portions of the popular Presidential Trail and the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Heritage Village will be closed periodically, as equipment is moved using a part of the trail and village corridor.
By USDA Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: MyPlate Serves as Reminder to Help Consumers Make Healthy Food Choices BOSTON, May 30, 2012 -- Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today joined local officials, educators, and students to highlight the first anniversary of the MyPlate food icon and announced a month of nutrition events and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department settled a lawsuit today against Whiz International LLC, an information technology staffing company in Jersey City, N.J., regarding allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when it terminated an employee in retaliation for expressing opposition to Whiz’s alleged preference for foreign nationals with temporary work visas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: Sung Soo Shin, of Staten Island, N.Y., president of Mission Design and Management Inc. (MDMI), pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York to filing a false corporate income tax return, for the fiscal year 2009, before U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) to resolve allegations that the NYCTA is engaged in a pattern or practice of religious discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Virginia to engaging in a scheme to conceal gifts and fraudulent payments he received, 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 announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A ship management company headquartered in Singapore pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Mobile for deliberately falsifying records to conceal pollution discharges from the ship directly into the sea. Target Ship Management Pte. Ltd., the operator of the M/V Gaurav ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: Wolfgang Roessel of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida to filing a false tax return for 2007, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By Fed Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the approval of a final rule outlining the procedures for securities holding companies (SHCs) to elect to be supervised by the Federal Reserve. An SHC is a nonbank company that owns at least one registered broker or dealer.
By Fed Newswire | May 30, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve System is preparing an inventory of historical materials (PDF) to enhance transparency through improved web access to records of the Federal Reserve's past. The initiative is motivated by the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Reserve Act in December 2013 and the 100th ...
