News from October 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today to refuse to stop Ohioans from voting early during the three days leading up to Election Day...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: The Fern Lake Fire has experienced minimal fire behavior of smoldering and creeping for the last few days. With only minimal fire spread likely through week's end, a National Incident Management Organization Team and some firefighting crews are being released today. Command of the fire was transferred back to Rocky Mountain National Park's staff this morning at 7 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced that the National Park Service will once again offer fee free days this year to encourage Americans to visit the special places protected and preserved as national treasures for the American people.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. OMNI Shoreham Hotel. The Office of Indian Energy sponsored a pre-conference session at the Renewable Energy Technology Conference (RETECH) held Oct. 16, 2012, which brought together government, tribal, and industry renewable energy leaders to explore best practices, public-private...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: LAS VEGAS MAN DIES AFTER CLIFF JUMPING.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Missing hikers Neal Peckens and Jason Hiser spent an additional five nights in the backcountry of Glacier National Park than they anticipated. The successful rescue of the hikers is credited to dedicated search and rescue personnel and Peckens and Hiser's preparation and sense of situational awareness.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
Release: Approximately 350,000 school children in Bangladesh now have access to a daily snack after the U.S. government recently donated more than 10,000 metric tons of wheat to the country through the Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment that charges 16 defendants with being part of a drug trafficking organization that illegally obtained and distributed more than 900,000 OxyContin pills obtained in part through fraud against public insurance programs such as Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: PORTLAND, MAINE - Kevin L. Lane, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Rashidi Campbell, 32, of Jamaica, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland by Judge George Z. Singal, to...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the selection of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), a collaboration of several key firms in the semiconductor industry, to support university-centered research for the development of after-the-next-generation "nanoelectronics" technology. NRI is made up of participants from the semiconductor industry, including GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, Intel, Micron Technology and Texas Instruments.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Charles Pinckney National Historic Site will close on Monday and Tuesday, October 22-23 for construction work while the National Park Service repairs and stabilizes the visitor parking facility. The park will reopen at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, October 24 with a much improved parking area. In case of rain the project will be rescheduled for a later date. For the latest information on the closure, visit us online at www.nps.gov/chpi.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement on the Justice Department’s request for dismissal of legal action requiring the production of subpoenaed documents related to Operation Fast and Furious.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced yesterday that a former Colombian prosecutor pled guilty to providing law enforcement information to drug traffickers as part of a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Pittsburgh -- The role of clean energy technologies in building a strong economy and improving quality of life is just one of the wide-ranging topics that will be covered at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), to be held October 28 through November 2 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2012
News Release: Makers of minuscule moving machines-the kind being eyed for nanomanufacturing and assembly as well as other uses-do you know where your micro- and nanorobots really are?
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2012
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: On Saturday, October 27th at 1:30pm, noted historical military illustrator and artist, Don Troiani, and Park Historian, Richard Colton, weave a tapestry of understanding by viewing dramatic Civil War paintings and Springfield Armory Civil War period weaponry. Admission is FREE.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the expansion of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office’s (DNDO) Securing the Cities (STC) program to the Los Angeles/Long Beach area. The STC program is designed to enhance the nation’s ability to detect and prevent a radiological or nuclear attack in cities facing the highest risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2012
News Release: In one of the first False Claims Act settlements involving Medicare’s Prescription Drug Program, known as Part D, RxAmerica LLC. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it has agreed to pay the government $5.25 million to resolve allegations that it made false submissions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former Colombian prosecutor pleaded guilty today to providing law enforcement information to drug traffickers as part of a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Drug ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2012
News Release: Police of Puerto Rico Lieutenant Erick Rivera Nazario and Officer Jimmy Rodriguez Vega were indicted on civil rights charges alleging that they used excessive force on two men, the Justice Department announced today. Nazario and Vega allegedly violated the constitutional rights of Jose Irizarry Perez ...
