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U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs. Officials said it was the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Two days before she disappeared, Nina Reiser accepted a $50,000-a-year job with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to help Russian immigrants, the woman who hired her testified Wednesday. Prosecutors hope Patricia Erwin's testimony will help.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:24am neoform

Washington Post -- A $1.2 billion program to deploy new radiation monitors to screen trucks, cars and cargo containers for signs of nuclear devices has been delayed by questions over whether Department of Homeland Security officials misled Congress about the effectiveness o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running. Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soar.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 2:21pm neoform

FOX News -- The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists. The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 4:27pm neoform

pressesc.com -- US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week. American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:21am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A small bar of radium is missing from a former uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday. The radioactive ingot, about the size of a medical gel capsule and stored in a glass vial, is not a health or secu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 2:22pm neoform

New York Times -- The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest gro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 17, 2007 @ 9:24am mrmdc

Time -- In April of 2005, Jeremy Robbins was arrested attempting to traffic two tons of marijuana from Arizona to East Tennessee. Indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges, Robbins was soon assessed a $1.1 million fine from Tennessee's Department of Revenue. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 9:45am neoform

www.worldnetdaily.com -- A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 11, 2006 @ 8:05am neoform

Washington Post -- When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 5, 2006 @ 10:41pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years, according to private researchers who reviewed department records... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today declared a statewide drought and ordered the state Department of Water Resources to quickly transfer water to areas with the most severe water shortages. The executive order also calls on the state water department to c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 2, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The prosecution data was collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an independent research organization at Syracuse University that analyzes monthly Justice Department prosecution statistics. A Justice spokesman, Dean Boyd, challenge.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

CNN -- A Defense Department weapons system analyst and three Chinese nationals have been arrested and charged in two espionage-related cases, prompting a top Justice Department official Monday to declare Chinese espionage is approaching "Cold War levels." In a c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A boy playing with matches started a Southern California wildfire that scorched more than 38,000 acres, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday. The Buckweed Fire, which destroyed 21 homes on its rampage, began October 21 in the Agua Dulc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 9:27am neoform

www.kccall.com -- Family members of a pregnant woman are still outraged over the treatment she received which stemmed from a call from department store security guards to the Independence, Mo., police department which allege that she was stealing cars in their parking lot... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 9:17am neoform

Yahoo News -- Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again. Adding to the department's woes is word from federal pro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- The Homeland Security Department and top government scientists are testing a new baggage-screening machine capable of identifying liquid explosives, a technology that could put an end to unpopular rules affecting carry-on luggage. The machine would all.. Read More