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Fire grant to improve recruitment, retention
Our Town CorrespondentA $5,157,000 grant awarded to Phoenix Steam Fire Engine Co. No. 1 by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster will allow several fire departments in Bedford, Blair, Cambria and Centre counties to enhance their recruitment process and retain firefighters, according to...Tags: Bill Shuster, Fires, FEMA
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...
Tags: Anthrax, Biological and Chemical Weapons, University of Maryland, College Park, Science and Technology, Terrorism
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Sexual assault in jails
A new government report singles out Los Angeles County's Twin Towers as having one of the worst rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual assault of any men's jail in the nation. One in 20 inmates held there reported that he had been victimized by another inmate...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Justice and Rights, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Institutes of Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Vaccines, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Deerfield, Highland Park spring sports teams performing well
From mid-May through early June, state spring sports are winding down in Illinois and every day brings that win-or-go-home excitement. Here is a wrapup on how some of the area teams have fared in recent weeks. Boys tennis Deerfield's tennis team...
Tags: High School Sports, Illinois High School Association, Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), Deerfield, Grayslake
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Communication could stop a con
The South Bend piece of the Ray Holycross case has now come to an end with a guilty plea and sentencing to 18 months in jail and to pay restitution. Holycross has now been convicted of theft but the story goes much deeper than that; he was able to gain...Tags: Janet Napolitano, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Prisons
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John F. Brinson: U.S. fighting world war against a political ideology
World War I was everybody versus Germany and Austria (1914-18). World War II was everybody versus Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-45.) World War III was the Cold War, with everybody versus the Soviet communist empire (1947-91). World War IV began in 1979...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Interior Policy, Religious Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice, Philosophy
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Quiet tornado season a year after 14 Hoosiers die
Associated PressSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A little more than a year after tornadoes ripped across southern Indiana, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, the state has seen a relatively quiet tornado season. Preliminary reports from...Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, National Weather Service
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crime, Law and Justice, Vaccines, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Christopher A. Coons, Crime, Law and Justice, Chuck Schumer
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: CBS Corp., Central Intelligence Agency, Corporate Officers, John Cornyn, Crime, Law and Justice
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Editorial: Conservatives should lead on immigration
If President Barack Obama delivers on his promise to sign meaningful immigration legislation in his second term, it could be because he wisely stayed out of the way while Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican with his eye on the White House, did the...Tags: Interior Policy, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics
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