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Gov. Herbert finishing trip to DC, New York

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 7:47am

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is finishing a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. and New York City with a meeting at the Interior Department.

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Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb plot in N.Y., Washington, D.C.

Eileen Sullivan, Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:53am

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Thursday they were investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat that al-Qaida was planning to use a car bomb to target bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the first tip of an “active plot” around that date.

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Johnny Lamca throws away ruined items from his flooded home in Manville, N.J., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Lamca said this flooding from Hurricane Irene was the worst of the four times that his home has been flooded by the Raritan River. Earlier Monday in Manville, Gov. Chris Christie said waters had reached or passed record levels at nine river locations, and he warned that the Passaic River had not yet crested. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Experts praise decisions to evacuate from Irene

Samantha Gross, Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 10:10am

NEW YORK — They were life and death decisions made by politicians, bureaucrats and everyday people. Hurricane Irene was barreling toward the East Coast. It was big. It was scary. Flooding was certain. The choice: Flee or stay put.

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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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(Steve Helber/The Associated Press) Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine.

Puzzled East Coasters: An earthquake? No way

Bob Lewis, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 6:52am

MINERAL, Va. — For a few minutes from Georgia to Maine, the question rang out: What was that? The answer — a rare East Coast earthquake, magnitude 5.8 — was far down on the list for most not used to the earth shaking beneath them.

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(SETH WENIG/The Associated Press) Participants in counter-terrorism training look for radioactive material with a handheld device south of the Verrezano-Narrows Bridge during a drill in New York on Thursday.

Costly dirty-bomb program put to test during NYC harbor exercise

The Associated Press, Tom Hays

Last updated Friday, April 8, 2011 - 8:34pm

NEW YORK -- On a cold afternoon at the mouth of New York Harbor, a tiny yellow fishing boat bobs in the water as a flotilla of law enforcement vessels fitted with sophisticated radiation detection equipment closes in.

The boat has drawn suspicion by emitting gamma rays -- a sign it may be carrying a dirty bomb, packed with radioactive material. High-speed vessels from the New York Police Department and state Naval Militia halt the boat, tie it up and accomplish their mission of neutralizing an apparent terror threat.

The radiation was real, but the threat wasn't: The scene Thursday was a drill designed to test an ambitious NYPD-led effort called Securing the Cities. The program aims to detect and intercept radiological devices before they can wreak havoc on Wall Street and other high-profile targets in Manhattan, the heart of the nation's largest city.

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Eragon, a bouvier, is groomed by Cynthia Thames during the first day of the Westminster Dog Show Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Jeff Christensen/Associated Press)

Westminster Dog Show - February 14, 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 14, 2011 - 1:19pm

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NYC mayor conducts gun-sale sting in Arizona

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:32pm

NEW YORK -- Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.

"After Tucson, you would think that people, particularly at a gun show in Arizona, would have been much more careful in enforcing the law," he said. "That unfortunately in some cases wasn't the case."

Bloomberg has authorized similar sting operations around the country as part of a push for tougher federal laws to help keep guns off the streets of New York.

But in the sensitive aftermath of the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the mayor was questioned about the time and place of his hidden-camera investigation, a $100,000 operation conducted almost clear across the country.

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