FEMA News

Laverne J. James, 53, of Ball, LA, who has been employed by the Town of Ball Police Department since 1993, pled guilty today to conspiring with others to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency following Hurricanes Rita and Gustav, United States Attorney Donald W. Washington announced.

On Thursday the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved legislation that would remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency from the Homeland Security Department and return it to independent, Cabinet-level status.

George and Lamar counties in south Mississippi are receiving millions of federal dollars to build community safe rooms where people can seek temporary shelter from disasters.

A Memphis woman has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for filing fradulent disaster relief applications in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Another dispute has developed between a South Florida government and the Federal Emergency Management Agency over money for cleanup after the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes.

The Ball police clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency after both Hurricanes Rita and Gustav.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has published draft flood risk maps of communities in Caldwell County, Texas.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal toured St. Bernard Parish on Wednesday to check on storm recovery in the area.

A The Federal Emergency Management Agency notified the Indiana Department of Homeland Security that the appeal for federal disaster assistance has been denied The decision affects individual and public assistance grants to Hoosiers in Southern and Central Indiana - including Clark and Floyd counties - who experienced damage from severe weather Aug.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- FEMA has urged a federal arbitration panel to reject claims that the state is owed $492 million for hurricane damages to LSU's Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

The Christian County Commission voted unanimously on Monday to move forward with a plan to use federal money to buy the historic but often-flooded Riverside Inn and raze it.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is at high risk of paying duplicate benefits to disaster victims because of limitations in its business processes and information technology systems, according to a new audit released by an inspector general.

Some residents of a flood-prone neighborhood in Benton are waiting and hoping for a federal buyout of their homes.

WASHINGTON - A change in federal policy could essentially pull the plug on a high-tech crime-fighting tool that helped the Cincinnati police solve a double homicide in 2008.

Bob Resnick didn't believe all the right-wing militia conspiracy theories - the FEMA internment camps or the government coffins stockpiled for the day the feds declare martial law and round up dissenters.

Frank Kaplan hopes to be out of his government-issued mobile home and back into his own house in Galveston in time for Christmas.

Almost $300,000 in financial contributions to American Samoa for the relief and recovery effort have been recorded and overseen by the newly created American Samoa Disaster Relief and Recovery Program .

Merricourt, N.D., used to have its own fire department. Now fires in and around the town are fought by fire departments in Ellendale, N.D., and Edgeley, N.D. Merricourt, a town of less than five people about 50 miles south of Jamestown, lost its fire department about three years ago because its fire chief retired and no one took over, said John ...

URS Corporation today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide technical assistance and task management services for FEMA hazard mitigation programs.

The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen.