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No descr SIERRA VISTA — Maxing out at 7 mph, the city’s robot, Mike•E, has been given a $39,000 upgrade, thanks to leftover 2004 grant funds from the federal Department of Homeland Security. The Sierra Vista Fire Department has updated its third-generation Talon Robot, which serves the Sierra Vista Police Department and other local agencies, with many new features. read more
PLATTSBURGH — New North Country Congressman William Owens says the country needs to find a way to have civil conversations about issues in order to solve problems, and he hopes he can lend a hand in that process.
What's the difference between the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? Homeland Security doesn't think it's the LVCVA.
LAS VEGAS — When a tip arrived about a threat of violence at a southern Nevada high school football game, a Clark County School District police officer helped plan a response.
VAN NUYS, Calif. (WOMENSENEWS)--This Thanksgiving the Barrios family will gather with relatives in Van Nuys, Calif., freed from the dread that Francis, 23, will be pulled away from her husband and children and deported to a country she barely remembers. read more
Commencement exercises will bring hundreds of graduates, their family members and friends to Southern Wesleyan University’s campus in Central on Dec. 10 and 12.
No descr SIERRA VISTA — Maxing out at 7 mph, the city’s robot, Mike•E, has been given a $39,000 upgrade, thanks to leftover 2004 grant funds from the federal Department of Homeland Security. The Sierra Vista Fire Department has updated its third-generation Talon Robot, which serves the Sierra Vista Police Department and other local agencies, with many new features. read more
Jonathan Thompson, executive vice president of S4 Inc.'s Systems Media Group, discussed the U.S. government's role in crisis communication at a Heritage Foundation symposium on homeland security. A webcast of the panel discussion is available at http://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev111309a.cfm.
A little over a year ago, the Teller County Local Emergency Planning Committee assigned a small group of people — the communications committee — the job of updating the “When Disaster Strikes” booklet that was designed to help county residents prepare for possible emergencies and disasters.
Washington -- The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.
PAGE – Free All-Hazards Homeland Security Initiative Community Partnership and Awareness Training is coming to Page.
Speculation is an important exercise in philosophical debates and social gatherings, but not in public policy reviews or criminal investigations. Yet this is what happened during the first round of hearings conducted by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on last Friday.
EAST WENATCHEE — Douglas County Sheriff Harvey Gjesdal looked like a proud father watching his son rush for the winning touchdown. But it was a 34-foot-long, heavy-duty, commercial-grade fifth wheel that put the gleam in his eye Monday. Federal and state Homeland Security grants helped pay for the $260,000 Special Operations Command Center and truck that will serve law enforcement officials in a ...
Ninja Assassin has many flaws; however, the ninjas are not one of them. All of the ninja action in this film is awesome, and for fans of the genre that's probably enough.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
The Kansas Adjutant General's Department announced Wednesday it plans to close 18 of 56 National Guard armories across the state in response to growing budgetary shortfalls and the imminent threat of even deeper cuts. read more
