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Bishop bill for Homeland Security in border parks causing contention

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:46am

LOS ANGELES -- House Republicans are backing legislation in Congress to give the Department of Homeland Security control of more than 50 national parks and forests within 100 miles of the U.S. borders.

The legislation involves a sweep of land along the frontier with Canada and Mexico, but exempts state land, private property and federal holdings used for mining, livestock grazing and timber harvesting. The new authority would carve through 54 national parks, including Joshua Tree, Saguaro, Acadia and Glacier.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) MarLon Hills Elementary School student Elizia Rios crouches under her desk during the Great Utah ShakeOut earthquake drill Tuesday in South Ogden.

Students get ready for the big one with Great Utah ShakeOut

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 7:32pm

OGDEN — As the sound of tremors spread across MarLon Hills Elementary School around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, students in Felicia Bedwell’s fourth-grade class ducked under their desks and held on.

After a minute, Bedwell ushered her students into the hallway as other classrooms emptied out. When they heard another rumbling sound, the children crouched against the wall.

After a few more tremor sounds and more crouching, all of the children in the school lined up in a designated area outside to be counted.

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Hatch seeks explanation of ICE audit at Weber jail

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 12:54am

OGDEN -- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday to look into issues surrounding federal audits that resulted in the June removal of 32 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees from Weber County Jail.

"I'm all for good conditions in our jails," Hatch said in a phone interview with the Standard-Examiner.

"If they are good enough for U.S. inmates, they should be good enough for criminal aliens."

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Hatch enters spat between Weber Jail, federal immigration officials

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 4:06pm

OGDEN -- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today to look into recent federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement audits that resulted in the removal of 32 ICE detainees from the Weber County Jail.

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Nation’s food anti-terror plans costly, unwieldy

Garance Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 7:11am

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the deepest fears sweeping a shattered nation following the Sept. 11 attacks was that terrorists might poison the country’s food.

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(Associated Press file photo) The World Trade Center towers burn and one starts to fall on September 11, 2001.

Impacts of 9/11 far-reaching -- and local

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 12:35am

OGDEN -- All Utahns go through intense security at the airport because of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago Sunday, but how many know:

Why one museum's volunteers had to have background checks before they could show visitors the displays?

Why there are so many Saudi students in Utah and so few Iranians?

Why the books you check out at the library could still get you in trouble?

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A pedestrian passes under the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras in Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2011. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Police Department has become one of the country's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, one that operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would be prohibited for the federal government. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 7:09am

NEW YORK — In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

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New name for state's homeland security

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 9:23pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Whether it is a flood, an earthquake or a man-made disaster, the state has a division for it.

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North Davis Fire District gets federal grant

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 11:12pm

CLEARFIELD -- North Davis Fire District has received a $127,552 federal grant to buy 20 air packs, fire officials said.

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(The Associated Press) A Transportation Security Administration employee steps out of a scanner during a demonstration of new software being tested with advanced imaging technology at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The software will let passengers see what agents see and uses a generic image.

Transportation Security Administration begins testing less-invasive body scanners

Tribune Washington Bureau

Last updated Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 7:59pm

WASHINGTON -- As the uproar over the government's use of pat-downs and full-body scanners at airports ebbs, new technology is being tested that is designed to allay privacy concerns over the grainy nude images produced by the machines.

Scanners being tested in three U.S. airports starting this week will only display for screeners a generic stick figure, and any suspicious object on a passenger's body will be flagged for inspection by a pale red box on the drawing. A passenger cleared to go will see the screen flash green and read "OK."

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City gets Homeland Security grant

Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 7:43pm

The city council chambers will soon have a 55-inch television and a smart board to help diagram and explain things to residents, thanks to a Department of Homeland Security grant the police department and administration department received.

Both devices will be used in council chambers for regular meetings of the city council and planning commission and in emergencies to get information and plans released quickly, said Mayor Rich Harris. The city has budgeted a projector and screen to go with the smart board to display the information more clearly.

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