It was announced today by United States Attorney Karen Loeffler, that a Federal Grand Jury had returned an indictment against the man apprehended in Texas on March 13th, Israel Keyes. He is being charged Kidnapping resulting in the death of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig as well as Receiving and Possessing Ransom Money and Access Device Fraud.
If we had begun exploring in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2002, its oil and gas (and jobs and revenue) would be flowing now.
It has been two years since BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that took the lives of 11 of its crew and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, gushing oil into the environment for 87 days. Yesterday, former members of the now dissolved commission created by President Obama in the aftermath of the disaster released a report.
Yesterday, crewmembers of the United States Coast Guard Cutter "Healy" were presented the Coast Guard Unit Commendation for extremely meritorious service in support of Coast Guard operations during their seven-month 2011 science mission that ended with an escort for the tanker "Renda" to Nome.