News from October 2016
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Three men from the Glen Haven and Estes Park areas, Alan Smith (42), Holmes and Austin Holmes both in their early 20s (not related) spent an unexpected night on Kieners Route on Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Family members notified park rangers last night, but at that time they were not asking for assistance.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: TYLER BEND, BUFFALO NATIONAL RIVER -Approximately 2,600 visitors joined together at Buffalo National River this weekend for the Ozark Folklife Festival, a heritage event celebrating 100+ years of Ozark culture and the centennial year of the National Park Service. Funding for the event was from the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative, administered by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Mark Earl Pitoscia, 41, of Anchorage, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 105 total months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), through DHS’s Office of Procurement Operations, has awarded a $494.7 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2016 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that beginning today, many of the 1.7 million farms that enrolled in either the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs will receive safety-net payments due to market downturns during the 2015 crop year.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2016 – By: President Barack Obama I've spent most of my life living in big cities. But the truth is, a lot of what's shaped me came from my grandparents who grew up on the prairie in Kansas. They taught me the kind of values that don't always make headlines, let alone the daily back-and-forth ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Net Income for Top 100 Co-ops Rose by 14 Percent WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2016 – Net income for the nation's agricultural cooperatives soared by 14 percent last year, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In its annual report on national cooperative business sales, USDA reported that the country's farmer, rancher and fishery cooperatives posted record net income of $7 billion in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue officer pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina to one count of tax evasion and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the filing of a complaint against NGL Crude Logistics LLC (NGL) and Western Dubuque Biodiesel LLC and a settlement with Western Dubuque to address alleged violations of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The complaint, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: A one-count indictment was returned today charging a former administrator of the McClain County Jail in Purcell, Oklahoma, with a civil rights violation arising out of the death of a detainee in June 2013. The indictment alleges that Wayne Barnes, then a lieutenant at the jail, exhibited deliberate indifference toward K.W. by denying him necessary medical care to treat his diabetes, resulting in K.W.’s death.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Tuesday posted the public portions of the required "targeted submissions" for the eight systemically important, domestic banking institutions. To foster transparency, the agencies required all of the firms to file a public portion of their targeted submissions.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Capital Commerce Bancorp, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin Written Agreement dated Dec. 31, 2010 Terminated Sept. 28, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Members of the two national task forces convened by the Federal Reserve to make payments faster and more secure have begun to review and discuss 19 specific proposals submitted by interested task force members across the payments industry that outline potential approaches for a faster payment system in the United States.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews delivered welcoming remarks at the Association for Mexican Entrepreneurs 20th Anniversary Leadership Summit. In his address, Deputy Secretary Andrews emphasized the importance of the U.S.-Mexican trade relationship, and the successes of the U.S.-Mexico ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas – In nearly every one of its investigations of restaurants in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division says restaurant owners in the Austin area violated federal labor law by not paying their workers the wages they were legally owed.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: STEVENS POINT, Wis. – An Arpin contractor faces penalties of $93,532 after federal inspectors found the company risked the lives of at least two of its employees as they installed underground water, sanitary and storm sewer utilities in an unprotected 9-foot deep trench at the Stevens Point Sixth Avenue Reconstruction Project.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho – A Boise excavation contractor could have prevented the deaths of two workers and serious injuries suffered by a third after a trench collapse if the company had not allowed federal safety standards to be ignored at a Northwest Boise work site in May.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has settled allegations of systemic hiring discrimination by one of the world’s largest food processing companies at six of its locations in Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico after an investigation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON – A federal contractor that manufactures “Lightolier” brand indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of sex-based wage discrimination.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center and the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, Division of Unemployment Insurance have entered into an agreement to resolve allegations that the state failed to provide adequate language assistance services to those with limited English proficiency to allow meaningful access to Kentucky’s unemployment services.
