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Nogales CBP Officers Seize Heroin from Teen Body Carrier
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Nogales, Arizona - Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 14-year-old male from Nogales, Arizona, for an alleged attempt to smuggle nearly 2 pounds of heroin, worth an estimated $34,000, through the Port of Nogales on Monday.
DHS Announces Grant Allocations for Fiscal Year 2016 Preparedness Grants
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Washington, DC - As part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ongoing efforts to support state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, Secretary Jeh Johnson announced final allocations of $275 million for six Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 DHS competitive preparedness grant programs. These allocations, in addition to the more than $1.3 billion in non-competitive grant funding announced by Secretary Johnson in February, total more than $1.6 billion in FY 2016 to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector with their preparedness efforts.
2 New Mexico residents federally indicted for health care fraud
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico - Two New Mexico residents, who were charged with health care fraud, were arrested Tuesday.
Elementary school teacher federally charged with receiving child pornography
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- Written by ICE ICE
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Fort Worth, Texas - A Dallas-area elementary school teacher remains in federal custody Wednesday following his arrest last week on a federal complaint, filed June 24, which charges him with receiving child pornography.
NASA Awards Contract to Increase Water Recovery on Space Station
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Tucson, Arizona - NASA has selected Paragon Space Development Corporation, a small business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, to develop a system that will increase the rate of water recovery from the urine of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
NASA's Space Launch System Booster Passes Major Milestone on Journey to Mars
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- Written by Cheryl Warner Cheryl Warner
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Promontory, Utah - A booster for the most powerful rocket in the world, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), successfully fired up Tuesday for its second qualification ground test at Orbital ATK's test facilities in Promontory, Utah. This was the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS’s first uncrewed test flight with NASA’s Orion spacecraft in late 2018, a key milestone on the agency’s Journey to Mars.
New Feedback System Launched for Federal Student Aid Customers
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Education officially launched the Federal Student Aid (FSA) Feedback System, an online portal that allows federal student aid customers to submit complaints, provide positive feedback, and report allegations of suspicious activity regarding their experience with federal student aid programs.