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Monday, April 22, 2013  Police in Canada say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.

Monday, March 04, 2013  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays as a result of automatic federal spending cuts.

Saturday, January 12, 2013  Today the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement urging computer users to disable Java. This was a response to a flaw in the coding for the computer language.

Monday, January 07, 2013  President Barack Obama has tapped White House homeland security adviser John Brennan as his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Thursday, December 13, 2012  The Golden Globe nominations were announced in Beverly Hills, CA., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday morning.

Thursday, November 08, 2012  Governor Andrew Cuomo has fired his emergency management director.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012  Cayuga County emergency personnel are being asked to respond to Coney Island.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012  A representative from the Department of Homeland Security provided training for local law enforcement agencies to help them properly handle people under the influence of synthetic drugs.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012  A suburban Rochester businessman has been sentenced to three years' probation, fined $4,000 and ordered to pay twice that in restitution for selling counterfeit merchandise at his North Country stores.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012  A suburban Syracuse company has been awarded a federal contract worth nearly $100 million to build a radar system designed to detect low-flying planes that smuggle drugs across the U.S. border.

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Friday, May 04, 2012  Local labor leaders are calling for a crackdown on illegal immigrants after the arrests of 6 workers employed at a Syracuse University dormitory project.

Monday, April 02, 2012  New York officials say $1.4 million in federal homeland security money will be distributed to support the operations of a dozen bomb squads across the state.

Sunday, March 18, 2012  Oneida Nation Police offer Homeland Security course to 'rural' police

Thursday, March 08, 2012  Federal agents say a green card mill operating out of a Lewis County farmhouse provided fake documentation to dozens of illegal immigrants.