WASHINGTON–Seven stolen and looted objects of Italian cultural heritage will soon be on their way back to Italy, following a ceremony Thursday in which U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano officially returned the antiquities to Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero at the Embassy of Italy in Washington. Two 2,000-year-old ceramic vessels, one Roman [...]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. –- Two Israeli citizens pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced for smuggling counterfeit and misbranded pharmaceuticals into the United States, including the erectile dysfunction drug marketed in the United States as Cialis® . The sentences resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the [...]

WASHINGTON –- Four individuals have been charged in the Eastern District of Virginia for their alleged roles in an Internet piracy group that distributed via the Internet copies of movies showing only in theaters, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil [...]

  By Gina Yarbrough/Managing Editor and Publisher of San Diego County News WASHINGTON – United States Secret Service (USSS) Director Mark Sullivan, is working feverishly to quickly contain the on-going Cartegena, Columbia Hotel Caribe scandal that has his bosses, Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, President Barack Obama, and the U.S. Congress, all waiting to [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office said Thursday that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Pfc. Richard E. Clapp, 19, of Seattle, Wash., will be buried April 25, at [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Rail car manufacturers across the country will have an opportunity to submit bids to produce the first American-made, standardized passenger rail cars, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. The $551 million Request for Proposals (RFP) to manufacture approximately 130 new bi-level passenger rail cars in America comes from a groundbreaking multi-state effort to [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–President Obama today will sign a Proclamation to designate federal lands within the former Fort Ord as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act.  Fort Ord, a former military base located on California’s Central Coast, is a world-class destination for hikers, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts who come to enjoy the area’s history and [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The selection of Lyndon B. Johnson, designated DDG 1002, continues the Navy tradition of naming ships after presidents and honors the nation’s 36th president. The USS Lyndon B. Johnson is the 34th ship named [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–A federal jury Monday convicted three Houston men of a federal hate crime charge related to a racially motivated assault of a 29-year-old African-American man. The defendants, Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, were found guilty of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which [...]

SEATTLE–A Lakewood man arrested during a three-month federal crackdown on illegal firearms and violent repeat offenders in King County was found guilty Thursday by a federal jury. Roman Rosas-Martinez, 31, now faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years in prison for his conviction on conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine [...]