Fishermen unload a crab pot containing red king crab aboard the fishing vessel Gulf Winds during a law enforcement boarding conducted by a Coast Guard boarding team. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Erik Swanson. Hundreds will…

WASHINGTON - LHC Group Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million, plus interest, to the federal government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act for false home healthcare billings to the Medicare, TRICARE and Federal Employees Health…

BOSTONA 26-year-old Ashland man was arrested and charged today in connection with his plot to damage or destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, using large remote controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen, was also…

Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON Combined Afghan and coalition security forces made a major drug sweep and killed numerous insurgent fighters in separate operations yesterday in Afghanistan, military officials reported. In Helmand provinces Baghran…

ALBUQUERQUE -- Fifty-seven Roswell residents have been charged with federal drug trafficking offenses in 45 federal indictments and six federal criminal complaints that were unsealed yesterday. Another 27 Roswell residents have been charged with state drug trafficking offenses in state…

Washington, DC -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), has filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, certain of their officers and various unaffiliated lead underwriters. The suits allege violations of…

OUTER BANKS, N.C. A series of before and after aerial photos coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/irene/photo-comparisons/ of the Outer Banks show the impact of Hurricane Irene on the coastline, highlighting several breaches that severed a state highway and moved large volumes of sand inland.…

Rivers and streams are reaching record levels as a result of Hurricane Irenes rainfall, with more than 80 U.S. Geological Survey streamgages measuring record peaks. The northeast is seeing the bulk of the records, as higher than average precipitation the…

The GOES-13 satellite saw Hurricane Irene on August 27, 2011 at 10:10 a.m. EDT after it made landfall at 8 a.m. in Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Irene's outer bands had already extended into New England. (Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project) From…

This visible image of Hurricane Irene from the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite was taken at August 26 at 12:30 p.m. EDT, when Hurricane Irene was off the Carolinas. (Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team) Hurricane Irene was…

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite known as TRMM has the ability to measure rainfall from space, and can also provide scientists with cloud heights, eyewall and lightning information. These images and captions of Hurricane Irene were provided by NASA…

Infrared satellite imagery provides forecasters with the location of the highest, strongest thunderstorms that make up Hurricane Irene, and there is a large area of them. This infrared image from the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows Hurricane Irene…