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Fox, Time Warner Cable reach agreement without disrupting service

XXX XXXX — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:45:58 +0000

A new contract between Time Warner Cable and News Corporation was reached late Friday, keeping the Fox broadcast network and cable channels on the air in millions of homes around the U.S., including the Imperial Valley.

Skeptics dominate hearing on Guantanamo detainees in Illinois

XXX XXXX — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:27:24 +0000

Federal and state officials faced hard questions and some jeers at a public hearing on the proposed transfer of Guantanamo detainees to a prison in northwest Illinois.

Justice Department to tell prosecutors to back off medical marijuana cases

XXX XXXX — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:08 +0000

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.

‘Balloon boy’ parents could face prison, fines in hoax

XXX XXXX — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:04 +0000

Investigators believe Richard and Mayumi Heene thought that by staging a drama-filled balloon emergency involving their six-year-old boy could win them a reality- television show of their own.

FBI data suggests ‘war on drugs’ might not be worth it

XXX XXXX — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:29:19 +0000

Many law enforcement officers now say the drug interdiction effort is costly and unsuccessful. The bulk of drug arrests in 2008 were for simple possession, almost half for marijuana.

Water measured from the sky

XXX XXXX — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:45:03 +0000

But measurement — trying to determine how much water is diverted from rivers and how much is pumped from hundreds of thousands of wells — has been an inexact and expensive science.

Ted Kennedy dead at 77

XXX XXXX — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:48:40 +0000

Senator Ted Kennedy died at his home in Hyannis Port Tuesday night after a year-long battle with a brain tumor.

IRS cracks open 4,450 Swiss bank accounts

XXX XXXX — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:30:47 +0000

Swiss banking giant UBS said Wednesday it will give American authorities the names of up to 4,450 American account holders who the IRS suspects of shielding billions of dollars from taxation.

How’s the president faring in the Rocky Mountain west?

XXX XXXX — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:02:15 +0000

President Obama may have to side-step mistakes made by the last Dem president, Bill Clinton, during a weekend visit to Montana and Colorado

Napolitano announces $30 million grant to counter border violence

XXX XXXX — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:25:08 +0000

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas will share Operation Stonegarden grant money of $30 million.

Another Hudson River crash, this time fatal

XXX XXXX — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:14:30 +0000

Rescuers are still searching for survivors in a plane-helicopter crash over West Manhattan’s Hudson River. Two people are already confirmed dead.

Sotomayor sworn in as 111th Supreme Court Justice

XXX XXXX — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:41:39 +0000

Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the judicial oath as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court.

U.S. industries pushing for ‘green’ trade accord

XXX XXXX — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:05:29 +0000

“Not only would it increase trade in environmental goods,” he adds, “but it would further the avowed Obama administration objective of addressing climate change and building the green economy.”

Rewards of $50 million announced for information on narcotics kingpins in Mexico

XXX XXXX — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:53:48 +0000

The Department of Justice today announced new federal charges against suspected Mexican drug lords and set $50 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of 10 of the suspects.

Some of the indicted members of the Company. Click the image to see the full DEA Most-Wanted photos

Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas-Guillen, Jorge Eduardo Costilla-Sanchez, Heriberto Lazcano-Lazcano and Miguel Trevino-Morales, high-level Mexican leaders of ‘The Company,’ and 15 of their top lieutenants, have been charged in U.S. federal courts with drug trafficking-related crimes.

The ‘Company’ was formerly known as the Gulf Cartel/Los Zetas drug organization, whose members are former Mexican special forces military.

“These indictments allege a stunning and sophisticated operation by the Company to move illegal drugs into our communities and cash back to Mexico,” said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.

Most of those named in the new indictments have already been charged in U.S. cases as far back as 2002. Today’s unsealed indictments in the Eastern District of New York, include charges against Miguel Trevino-Morales for “operating a continuing criminal enterprise, international cocaine distribution and firearms violations.”

The departments of Justice, State and Treasury are offering $5 million for information on each of 10 ‘Company’ leaders. For a list of those names, click here.

They have established an email address, GULFTF@USDOJ.GOV, and toll-free phone line, 877-800-1323, for reporting information concerning the ‘Company.’

Recent lunar shots of moon landing sites to pave way for future

XXX XXXX — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:28:31 +0000

A U.S. spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the moon, revealing science instruments and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface.

Mysterious giant blob off the coast of Alaska stumps biologists

XXX XXXX — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:46:33 +0000

Alaskan scientists are trying to identify a large mass of unknown gunk, or goo, found by hunters off the northern coast here.

Broadcast icon Walter Cronkite dead at 92

XXX XXXX — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:50:30 +0000

Walter Cronkite, who anchored the CBS evening news for a generation of Americans, has died at the age of 92.

The Air Forces’s new poster boys: drone jocks

XXX XXXX — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:20:44 +0000

The Air Force is putting more pilots behind a joystick to fly unmanned planes.

Episcopal leaders vote to lift ban on gay bishops

XXX XXXX — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:57:05 +0000

The church may move to sanction blessings for same-sex couples as well, further alienating conservative parishes.

Sarah Palin leaving Alaska govern’s seat

XXX XXXX — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:56:39 +0000

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced yesterday that she’ll step down next month, a year before her term ends.