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…

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…

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…

U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez determined that a decline in the harvest of soft shell and peeler blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay is a commercial fishery failure. The declaration is an important step in making watermen and their communities…

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…

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…

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…

WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced selections for negotiations of award under the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power Generation. These 15 new projects, for up…

ARCATA, Calif.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents executed federal search warrants at the local headquarters of one of the states major wholesale flower growers, The Sun Valley Group, and at the residences of several of the companys…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a national campaign to teach parents how to keep their children safe from skin infections caused by the potentially dangerous bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA, a type of staph…

Company to also spend additional $50,000 to help restore Novato Creek SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined BioMarin Pharmaceutical $119,717 after its Novato, Calif., facility violated the Clean Water Act on numerous occasions by discharging low pH…

Will Kirkpatrick Finally Give Up Rangels Ethically-Tainted Cash After Latest Revelation? Washington In yet another embarrassing report, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Chairman of the powerful, tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, has finally admitted that he owes several thousands of dollars in…