WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: * * * America's first ice ships and icebreakers The Long Blue Line blog series has been publishing Coast Guard history essays for over 15 years. To access hundreds of these service stories, visit the Coast Guard Historian's Office's Long Blue Line online archives, located here: THE LONG BLUE LINE (uscg.mil) Though various ice-strengthened vessels were built in the era, most were simply ice  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Boston arrests alien fugitive wanted for homicide in Dominican Republic BOSTON -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal law enforcement partners from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marshals Service apprehended a Dominican fugitive wanted in his native country for homicide. Officers with ICE Boston, agents from DEA N  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Boston arrests Dominican alien charged with assault to rape, strangulation of a Massachusetts resident LAWRENCE, Mass. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Dominican national charged with charged with assault to rape, assault and battery with dangerous weapon, assault on a family or household member, and stra  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, April 5 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address: * * * Celebrate National Donate Life Month by Becoming an Organ Donor Hello, this is Governor Janet Mills, and thank you for listening. This week, I joined organ donors and their loved ones at the State House. We proclaimed April as "Organ Donation Month" in Maine. The number of Maine people who received organ transplants has nearly doubled from 66 to 124, just in the last five years. I read recently a  more

BRISBANE, Australia, April 4 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Feed the world: adequate healthy food for all increases global health Lack of access to adequate nutritious food is a worldwide health challenge - it exists for two thirds of people in low-income countries, and in disadvantaged households in high-income countries, a review of food insecurity's effect on global health has found. * Up to one in three Australian households feeling the effect  more

CALLAGHAN, Australia, April 4 -- The University of Newcastle issued the following news: * * * nib funds local research to tackle chronic disease, mental health and knee replacements A program that uses genetically guided health information to help people better manage chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions, along with two other specialist health programs at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) have attracted funding from the nib foundation. HMR  more