Homeland Security funding to support city emergency communications center
Elk Grove Citizen - Mon Dec 7, 1:15 am ETWhen Congress approved this year’s Homeland Security spending, a piece of the pie was set aside for Elk Grove.
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When Congress approved this year’s Homeland Security spending, a piece of the pie was set aside for Elk Grove.
BOISE -- A foreign military from the Kingdom of Cambodia is in Boise Saturday. Their military mission is to learn about the Army and Air National Guards. Four months ago, the Idaho National Guard formally entered a partnership with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. There are similar programs around the country that are forming military partnerships and civil cooperation. Dressed in their ...
Without regrets, the social secretary declined the invitation. Desiree Rogers skipped last week's congressional hearing to determine exactly who's to blame for the blemish that marred the first couple's big dinner party -- the entry of two interlopers. The guests of honor, the gate-crashing Tareq and Michaele Salahi, also declined to attend.
Washington County’s emergency management leader was one of 23 people across the state recognized earlier this year for his contributions to preparing citizens for disaster.
Americans can be excused for thinking that terrorism is largely behind them. Eight-plus years after the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda has yet to strike the United States again. Airport screening seems routine and more relaxed, and anxieties over employment, mortgages, and health care have supplanted worries about anthrax and suicide bombers.
The Army is severely short of enough mental health professionals to properly attend to soldiers after eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Pentagon and Congress are asking whether that shortage may have played a role in the ability of the accused Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, to elude detection despite a spotty work record and suspicious behavior.
WASHINGTON - In hindsight the warning signs all look so obvious. An Army doctor in medical school who preferred offering militant political screeds about Islam in place of assigned papers on scientific topics.
What would happen if the T were hit by a chemical attack? The MBTA and Department of Homeland Security are trying to find out.
First they were arrested and faced deportation under what has proven to be the Obama administration's only workplace raid. Then they were given work permits, and told they could stay in the United States while their employer...
SAN DIEGO — The paradox of the Obama administration’s plan to achieve comprehensive immigration reform — one of these days, when it gets around to it, be patient, yada yada — is that the agency responsible for removing illegal immigrants is now supposed to find a way for millions of them to stay. Given that agency’s law enforcement bent, don’t be surprised if it is much better at the former than ...
Obama's election used as recruitment tool, report says
The past couple of weeks I received e-mails from Metrorail passengers regarding the county's new WiFi on some of the trains.
The paradox of the Obama administration’s plan to achieve comprehensive immigration reform — one of these days, when it gets around to it, be patient — is that the agency responsible for removing illegal immigrants is now supposed to find a way for millions of them to stay. Given that agency’s law enforcement bent, don’t be surprised if it is much better at the former than the latter.The ...
WASHINGTON — A publicist for the couple that crashed a White House state dinner denies they are "shopping" any interviews or demanding money from television networks to tell their story.
Federal and state officials are at Haymarket Station in Boston today testing how contaminants might spread through the MBTA system, part of a weeklong U.S. Homeland Security...
MIAMI -- Law enforcement officials -- not tailgaters -- were getting stoked Thursday outside Land Shark Stadium, rolling out an impressive display of equipment to protect Miami's postseason football trifecta: the Orange Bowl, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl No. 44.