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Oct 14, 2008

Tucson, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protections air operations spotted and interdicted an ultra-light aircraft last week that illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexican border carrying approximately 223 pounds of marijuana. The smuggled drugs have an approximate street value of $180,000. CBPs…

Oct 14, 2008

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of American families will have a greater opportunity to find housing or keep the homes they have because of $50 million in housing counseling and counseling training grants announced by U.S. Housing and Urban Development…

Sep 30, 2008

Program will save $10 million in fuel costs, reduce 28,000 tons of carbon dioxide SAN FRANCISCO Under the 2005 Energy Policy Acts landmark clean diesel legislation, U.S. EPA Pacific Southwest Administrator Wayne Nastri awarded $1.13 million in a first of-its-kind…

Sep 30, 2008

On Oct. 1, 1908, Ford Motor Co. introduced the Model T, generally regarded as the first affordable automobile and the car that industry experts say "put America on wheels." The first Model T, produced for the 1909 model year, was…

Sep 30, 2008

YUMA, Ariz. - Nelson Antonio Garcia, 35, of El Salvador, charged in Arizona in August 2008 with the federal crime of Reentry after Removal has been recently charged in Superior Court of the State of California (in the City and…

Sep 30, 2008

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows improvement in drought conditions over the Plains and the Midwest, in part due to landfalling tropical systems, and also shows lingering drought for the interior Southeast, south-central Texas, and California. And as of September…

Sep 23, 2008

TUCSON, Ariz. - James Williams, formerly a contract mechanic employed at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) aircraft facility in Tucson, pleaded guilty yesterday to Theft of Government Property. Williams, 37, of Tucson, was charged stealing a $6,972.39 pair of…

Sep 23, 2008

PHOENIX - Jose Rios Rico, 31, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, by U.S. District Court Judge James A. Teilborg to life in federal prison plus 55 years for Rios Ricos role in the murder of…