News from October 2014
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore is currently recruiting and accepting applications for Winter Wildlife Docent Volunteers for the winter of 2014-2015. Winter Wildlife Docents help strengthen the connection with and foster stewardship of Point Reyes National Seashore among park visitors by helping visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Lajai Lamar Pridgette, 29, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 137 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing counterfeit access devices; possession of counterfeit access device making equipment; possession of a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three Missouri men pleaded guilty in federal court today, in separate and unrelated cases, to charges involving child pornography. USA v. Allison. Larry Allison, 50...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2014
News Release: Sharpsburg, MD -Maryland freed all people held in bondage within its boundaries on Nov. 1, 1864 with a new state constitution. 150 years later, commemorations are being held at the Antietam National Battlefield and the historic Tolson's Chapel on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Most of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park opened Sunday following Hurricane Ana, except for Mauna Loa Road which remains closed due to downed trees.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park reopened parts of Crater Rim Drive along Kīlauea Caldera today at noon, including Kīlauea Visitor Center and Jaggar Museum.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2014
News Release: Who: Bureau of Land Management and Partners including: National Park Service; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Northern Virginia Regional Parks Authority; Virginia State Parks; and George Mason's Gunston Hall, a National Historic Landmark. Representatives of some of these partner organizations will speak...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC– Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Science and Technology, today announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Griffin as the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Deputy Under Secretary.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today awarded $4 million in grants to establish four regional centers of excellence for research on nutrition education and obesity prevention, as well as a coordinating center, which will develop and test innovative nutrition education and obesity prevention interventions for underserved, low-income families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Two groups of Houston-based diagnostic centers have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $2.6 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce R. Branda for the Department of Justice’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District of Texas. The settlements were finalized without an admission of liability and without commencement of litigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages taking place in the states affected by the Supreme Court’s recent decision to decline to review rulings from three federal appeals courts that had struck down bans on same-sex marriage. The Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of the Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park, a 230-lot mobile home park, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, for refusing to allow families with children to live in certain areas of the park, in violation of the Fair Housing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Two Connecticut men pleaded guilty today to bribery charges, admitting that they participated in a scheme to obtain confidential, internal law enforcement documents and information from a former FBI Special Agent in White Plains, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: A jury in Miami convicted a Lima, Peru, man on 26 felony charges of conspiracy, fraud and attempted extortion arising from his operating call centers in Peru that lied to and threatened Spanish-speaking victims into paying fraudulent settlements, the Department of Justice announced today. Juan Alejandro ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday issued a final rule to modify the regulations for capital planning and stress testing and released instructions for the 2015 capital planning cycle.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the applications under section 18(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act by Central Bank of Audrain County, Mexico, Missouri, to acquire the Vandalia, Missouri branch of First State Community Bank, Farmington, Missouri, and to establish a branch at the location of the Vandalia, Missouri branch.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: “Michelle Lee is a terrific talent, and I am delighted the President has nominated her to lead the Patent and Trademark Office, a role that is critically important to ensuring the United States remains a global leader in innovation and entrepreneurship. Michelle is a proven leader with strong management ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: “I know firsthand the important role federal resources can play when starting or growing a company,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker in a video released in conjunction with the launch of Business Sunday. “Business Sunday brings the best resources of the federal government to local communities ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: “Michelle Lee is a terrific talent, and I am delighted the President has nominated her to lead the Patent and Trademark Office, a role that is critically important to ensuring the United States remains a global leader in innovation and entrepreneurship. Michelle is a proven leader with strong management ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: This Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Small Business Administration (SBA) are launching Business Sunday, a program focused on promoting local economic growth and job creation by connecting religious congregations and communities with the valuable business development resources offered by the federal government.
