Archives offers $50,000 reward for missing hard drive with Clinton administration data

August 18th, 2009 Reward offered in Calif. missing boy caseOAKLAND, Calif.

August 14th, 2009 $1.65M reward offered in London jewel thief huntLONDON — British police say a reward of 1 million pounds ($1.65 million) is being offered for information leading to the capture of thieves who pulled off one of the country's biggest jewel heists. The Metropolitan Police said Friday the reward is for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the thieves and the recovery of jewels with a retail value of 40 million pounds, or $65 million, taken from Graff Diamonds in London last week.

August 7th, 2009 Clinton visits Mandela, tours his archivesJOHANNESBURG — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't want to break the link with anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.

August 3rd, 2009 Clinton seeks info from Iran on missing hikersWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed to Iran on Monday for information about three missing Americans believed to have been arrested by Iranian authorities last week on an ill-fated hiking trip in northern Iraq. Clinton said that Swiss diplomats who represent U.S.

July 20th, 2009 Clinton 'satisfied' with role in foreign affairsWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is denying she's unhappy with her say in foreign affairs in the Obama administration. In a nationally broadcast interview that aired Monday morning, Clinton told ABC: "I broke my elbow, not my larynx." There has been speculation that Clinton was chafing over perceived competition in the national security area from Vice President Joe Biden, national security adviser James Jones and special envoys Geoge Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke.

July 4th, 2009 INSIDE WASHINGTON: Archives' record-keeping lapseWASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington.

June 11th, 2009 First Freedom of Information ombudsman appointedWASHINGTON — The National Archives appointed a veteran open government advocate Wednesday to be the first Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, empowered to mediate disputes between people who request data and the agencies that have it. Miriam Nisbet, who now heads the information society division of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, was chosen to direct the Archives' new Office of Government Information Services, acting Archivist Adrienne Thomas announced.

June 9th, 2009 Hawaii archives holds mystery Lincoln documentHONOLULU — Documents bearing signatures of U.S. presidents have turned up in a lot of unexpected places: Attics, libraries, even thrift stores.

May 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A disk drive containing one terabyte of data from President Bill Clinton's administration is being investigated as a possible theft. The hard drive went missing from a National Archives facility in Maryland between October 2008 and March of this year, a ranking member of the House Government Oversight and Government Reform committee, said in a statement.

May 16th, 2009 LONDON - Complaining of police inaction, members of a London gurdwara which was gutted in a suspected arson attack two months ago have offered a 50,000 pound reward for catching the culprit. Devotees also held a demonstration at the site of the gurdwara.

May 11th, 2009 Clinton welcomes Iran's release of US journalistWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is welcoming the release of an American journalist who had been jailed in Iran for four months. Clinton told reporters at the State Department that the Obama administration disputes the spying charges against 32-year-old Roxanna Saberi and objects to the verdict rendered against her by an Iranian court.

April 23rd, 2009 FBI offers reward in case of girl missing 6 monthsHAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of a 2-year-old girl from Michigan missing for more than six months.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has offered a $5 million reward for information on Baitullah Mehsud, a senior leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban who is linked to the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Gordon Duguid, State Department acting deputy spokesperson, said: 'Mehsud is regarded as a key Al Qaeda facilitator in the tribal areas of South Waziristan in Pakistan.' Pakistani authorities believe the January 2007 suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was staged by militants loyal to Mehsud.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Washington has a range of options available to it to respond to North Korea should it proceed with a "provocative" long-range ballistic missile launch. A Fox News report quoted Clinton as telling reporters here: "We will discuss a response if we are not successful in convincing them not to go forward with what is a very provocative act." "There are a range of options available to take action against the North Koreans in the wake of a missile launch if they pursue that," she added.