MADRID | A train speeding through a station near Barcelona on Wednesday ran over a group of young people crossing the tracks, killing at least 12 and injuring 17, a Spanish official said. The group crossed the tracks above ground rather than using a designated tunnel underneath, said Jose Ramon Mora, head of the Civil Protection Department for Catalonia regional government.
A group of migrant farm-workers and their relatives is attempting to pick up the pieces of their lives after a deadly crash along the Mexico-US border. Early on the morning of January 2, a bus carrying 34 agricultural laborers and family members veered off a cliff near the settlement of La Rumorosa on the Tecate-Mexicali highway. Fourteen persons were killed and 21 others injured. Initially, we were told it was two buses and we mobilized firefighters, civil protection, the army, and police from Tecate, Tijuana and Mexicali, said Rene Rosado, director of Mexicali's civil protection department. "We later realized it was one bus cut in half.
GONAIVES, Haiti -- Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled to 137, with most of the deaths coming in the flooded port city of Gonaives. The Ministry of the Interior and the Civil Protection Department issued statements Thursday saying that 80 of the deaths were in Gonaives, which has been almost entirely cut off by floodwaters from Hanna.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Haiti's Civil Protection network received a substantial boost with the presentation of SUVs, trucks, boats, canoes, 11,000 solar radios, tents and other disaster-response equipment presented as gifts to the Government of Haiti by the U.S. Department of Defense. In a ceremony held today at the Directorate of Civil Protection in Haiti (DPC) in Port Au Prince, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Kenneth Merten, signed over the equipment to Haiti's Minister of the Interior, Defense and the Collectivities Thierry Mayard-Paul, in support of Haiti's Civil Protection network and ongoing disaster preparedness.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (``VA'') proposes to amend its regulations governing Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (``SGLI'') and Veterans' Group Life Insurance (``VGLI'') to prohibit payment of insurance proceeds payable because of the death of a person whose life was insured under SGLI or VGLI (``decedent'') or payment of a SGLI Traumatic Injury Protection (``TSGLI'') benefit to a person who is convicted of intentionally killing the decedent or determined in a civil proceeding to have intentionally killed the decedent (``slayer''); a member of the slayer's family who is not related to the decedent by blood, legal adoption, or marriage; and a member of the slayer's family who is related to the decedent by blood, legal adoption, or marriage and who is convicted of a crime invo...
MADRID - A train speeding through a station near Barcelona on Wednesday ran over a group of young people crossing the tracks, killing at least 12 and injuring 17, a Spanish official said. A long-distance train not scheduled to stop at the station in the seaside town of Castelldefels hit a group of people crossing the tracks who had just gotten off of a commuter train. The group crossed the tracks above ground rather than using a designated tunnel underneath, said Jose Ramon Mora, head of the Civil Protection Department for Catalonia regional government.
While referring to America's past history of racial segregation and discrimination within the legal system, President [Barack Obama] added that sometimes "law lags behind justice and it's up to us to bridge that distance. [Eric Holder] has had a long experience within the legal community and specifically in the justice department of the [Bill Clinton] administration. As a licensed attorney, he was a judge, United States Attorney, deputy attorney general and acting attorney-general of the United States. During the Obama presidential campaign, he was the senior legal advisor to then Senator Barack Obama and one of the members of the vice-presidential selection committee. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1976, he spent two brief stints at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and then ...
Pledging to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to adhere to the Const... the importance of civil rights protection in the Justice Department, Holder said, "We will p...
I think it's exciting that we're here, I think it's important that we talk together," said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Stephen J. Murphy, whose office put the evening together. That indeed was an understatement. The importance of the evening could not have been exaggerated, with the current climate of civil rights abuses against Arabs and Muslims in the nation, Congress voting on the reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act, and a recent Detroit News article stating the FBI was building a $65 million headquarters on an 11-acre site downtown, and implying that the office's growth to become one of the largest anti-terror units in the country was due to the area's heavy concentration of Arab Americans and American Muslims. The top brass were there, including in addition ...
... inform people about the civil rights protections existent in each of their agencies and to tell the... Linda Parker, Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights; Tim Keefer, from the Washington o...
This is my third column covering major fires in the 1800s that forever changed the buildings and businesses in which Columbians had invested their lives. The Columbia Fire Department's book, "A Century of Protection (1900-2000)," says: By the end of the Civil War, in the late 1860s, Broadway was lined with wooden buildings -- both commercial and residential. The use of wood stoves and coal oil and kerosene for heat, lighting, and cooking mixed with construction practices which relied primarily on wood, made for potential fire disasters.
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