Image taken at 745 PM looking south toward South Mountain from the NWS Phoenix office in Tempe (near Priest & Washington) as the large dust storm approached. A very large and historic dust storm moved through a large swatch of…

Mexican Drug Cartels Smuggled Hundreds of Kilograms of Cocaine to Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. Two Kansas City, Missouri men and a St. Paul, Minnesota man were convicted by a federal jury for their roles in one of the largest…

Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained a Haqqani network leader during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, military officials reported. The Afghan-led force located the leader in…

American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON Fort Hood Commander Army Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell Jr. will refer the capital murder case against Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to a general court-martial for trial, officials at Fort Hood, Texas, said today.…

ALAMEDA, Calif. - A Coast Guard C-130 aircrew from Air Station Sacramento is assisting the Mexican Navy again today in the search for survivors from the charter fishing vessel that sank in the Sea of Cortez, near Isla San Luis,…

Owners, Managers, and Doctors at Atlanta Medical Group Accused of Illegal Distribution of Hundreds of Thousands of Oxycodone Pills ATLANTA Jason Cole Votrobek, 27, of Vero Beach Florida; Jesse Violante, 32, of Vero Beach, Florida; Roland Rafael Castellanos, 32, of…

Wallow fire Landsat 7 - June 7, 2011 As the largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn, emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan both immediate…

NEW YORK - A major transnational Internet gambling operation based out of Staten Island, N.Y., and Costa Rica has been dismantled by New York City authorities with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents…

Washington U.S. Customs and Border Protections Office of Air and Marine assisted in the disruption of more than $30 million worth of contraband earlier this month. On May 12, a Jacksonville-based P-3 aircrew on a Joint Interagency Task Force-South patrol…

Number of tourists from China, South Korea and Brazil expected to rise dramatically, boosting U.S. exports in tourism-related services According to new data released today by the Commerce Department, the U.S. can expect 6-8 percent average annual growth in tourism…

Washington - Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were killed today during an incident involving a train near Gila Bend, Arizona. The accident happened at approximately 6 a.m. PDT. An investigation is underway. The agents, Hector R. Clark, 39 and Eduardo…

by Lisa Daniel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- READY FOR REVIEW Last year's surge of U.S. and coalition forces into Afghanistan, with the simultaneous growth of Afghan forces, is leading to tangible progress for peace and prosperity in…