News from January 2016
By State News Post | Jan 29, 2016
The US State Department published a one page rule on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: DOT Cautions Consumers on Super Bowl Air Travel Game Ticket Scams. Air travelers going to Super Bowl 50 this year should be aware that not all tour packages include a ticket to the Feb. 7 game in Santa Clara, California. Under U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) consumer protection rules, any operator ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $4,015,045 contract for Nelson Dikes Modification to Johnson-Wilson Constructors, Inc. of Helena, Montana, to mitigate seepage-related safety deficiencies of dikes at Nelson Reservoir, 19 miles northeast of Malta, Mont.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, February 13 join us for a Valentine's celebration beneath the starry skies of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument! This evening astronomy program will feature an indoor ranger presentation followed by outdoor laser-guided constellation tour and telescope observations. Members of the...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: Crater Lake National Park welcomed 664,000 visitors in 2015, a 13.5 percent increase from 585,000 visitors in 2014. This is the highest park visitation in 25 years, since the park first implemented modern tracking methods. Higher visitation is partly the result of low snow levels in 2014 and early 2015...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General report highlighting the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) outdated radio systems in the Washington, D.C. area, which failed over 100 times in 11 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that three men were sentenced for drug and firearm related offenses in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Loren Woodard, 34, of Calcium, New York and Corey Daniels, 33, of Watertown, New York, were arrested on federal firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week on the status of the U.S. Coast Guard’s cutter acquisition programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: Physicists in NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) have been working on a new class of chip-based photonic thermometers that measure temperature with light.* Now the team has reached another key milestone with the creation of a system that tests and packages their photonic thermometers automatically and in a fraction of the time it previously took.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 the National Park Service will begin accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2017. A total of 472 permits...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter on Thursday to Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the Obama administration to use U.S. influence to prevent new international lending to Zimbabwe absent meaningful progress by the government ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: This week, the National Park Service (NPS) announced $15 million in support of 69 projects in 63 parks. This includes $32,864 for outreach to fourth graders in Maine with ranger-led programs at Acadia National Park and Saint Croix Island International Historic Site. The funding will be matched by Friends of Acadia (FOA).
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee event...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, February 4, to consider a number of pending nominations. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS -A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Tawana Smith, a/k/a “Tawana Greene," a/k/a “T," 24, of Springfield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to distributing cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned a 15 count indictment under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act, of six individuals of the 40th Ave and ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) today commented on the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to grant special temporary authority to field test LTE-U equipment in unlicensed spectrum bands.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) today commented on the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to grant special temporary authority to field test LTE-U equipment in unlicensed spectrum bands...
