News from November 2012
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two years after a federal jury in Fresno convicted Gurmeet Bisla, 31, of Livingston, of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Bisla to 16 years in prison, Drug Enforcement...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: Middletown, VA ----- Superintendent Diann Jacox, of Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, has announced her retirement from the National Park Service effective Jan. 3, 2013. Jacox became the park's founding superintendent in March 2004 and has led it for the last eight and a half years. Her retirement will come after almost 34 years with the National Park Service.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: While one team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists is testing the effectiveness of pesticides against mosquitoes, another group is learning how repellents work.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 158,496 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - United States Chief District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Willie (35, Apopka) last week to three years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute BZP (a drug that mimics the effects of “Ecstasy").
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: At approximately 1100 hours this morning, searchers at Mount Rainier National Park found the two snowboarders who have been missing since Sunday, November 11th. Derek Tyndall, 21, and Thomas Dale, 20, had spent Sunday snowboarding in the area above Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park before they became lost in white-out winter snow conditions while descending from Camp Muir.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 6371), legislation that moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for workers employed by federal contractors from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor. Sponsored by Representative Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, the bill received bipartisan support in a vote of 361 to 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - Frank Telang, a Long Island doctor, pleaded guilty today to illegally distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, and income tax evasion. Telang entered his plea before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the United States Courthouse located in Central Islip, New York.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: Contact: Summer Derrey, WASDOT Communications, 509-577-1943 (Yakima/Chinook).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation announced that singer James Taylor, multiple Grammy®-award winner singer/songwriter/producer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, two-time Grammy®-award winner Colbie Caillat and American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips will perform at the 90th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting. Additional performers and special guests for the event will be announced shortly.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today requested the Department of Health and Human Services provide information on the contract awarded to Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: MILITARY HONORED BY LAKE MEAD NRA ON VETERANS DAY.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: It is a long holiday weekend. How will you entertain your guests? Why not bring your family, friends, and holiday visitors to Fort Stanwix National Monument and see the fort by candlelight? On Saturday, November 24th, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, the staff and volunteers of Fort Stanwix NM invite you to the park's annual Holiday Open House to explore winter through the eyes of an 18th Century Mohawk Valley resident.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today requested the Department of Health and Human Services provide information on the contract awarded to Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today requested the Department of Health and Human Services provide information on the contract awarded to Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2012
News Release: Searchers at Mount Rainier National Park were not able to locate two missing snowboarders today before night and poor weather drove them off the mountain.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) today released a report prepared by the committee’s Democratic staff detailing the importance of continuing federal unemployment insurance. Reps. Levin and Doggett called for prompt action to prevent unemployment benefits from being cut off for more than two million Americans just a few days after Christmas.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 11, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 NEW YORK — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Staten Island, N.Y. to meet with state and local officials and view ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Sandy. Secretary Napolitano reiterated the ongoing ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the government-wide response and recovery effort for Hurricane Sandy and the Nor’easter, the Energy Department is providing the Department of Defense with additional ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in response to a request from the State...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2012
News Release: An owner and sole operator of an environmental laboratory has been charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi with falsification of records and obstructing a federal criminal investigation, announced U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Gregory K. Davis and Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
