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PORTLAND, Maine AP - A manager of a Maine recycling facility has been fired and named in a search warrant in connection with the theft of more than $300,000. The Portland Press Herald reports that John Morin was fired from ecomaine March 8 for unexplained irregularities at the Portland ...

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The Secret Service is purchasing Jet Skis, in part to protect President Donald Trumps family as they participate in water sports.A Secret Service purchase memo says the agency needs two Jet Skis and a trailer toenhance safety/security for protective assignments on the water. Get Breaking News Alerts With the NBC Washington App The Secret Service needs the Jet Skis to protect the first family at TrumpsMar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and in the Hamptons, on Long Island, the memo says.The First Family is very active in water sports, the memo says. Several family members along with their guest sic participate in open water activities for which USSS Special Agent Rescue Swimmers are responsible. Give Us Our Star: DC Statehood Commercial Features Veteran The Secret Service said it needed 4-stroke, 4-cylinder 1498cc watercraft, that can each carry a maximum weight of 900 pounds. Kawasaki models that meet those specifications start at about $10,000 each.Previously, special agents have rented watercraft with their own personal funds, the memo says. Radford U Student From Culpeper Dies in Virginia Jail The Secret Service declined to comment.The Jet Skis will be stored at the Secret Services training center in Beltsville, Maryland.To protect presidents and first families, the Secret Service must adapt to their lifestyles. Special agents have found themselves running, hiking and skiing alongside presidents and dignitaries.Photo Credit: Shutterstock

Hispanic Heritage Month has been a big celebration in the U.S.for more than 40 years. Hispanics across the country celebrate this month with pride and joy, while commemorating the importance of diversity. Here are five things you should know, related to the Hispanic Heritage Month.What is Hispanic Heritage Month Embattled Israeli PM Fights for Survival in Do-Over Election Its a national celebration to honor the history, culture and influence of past generations that came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and SouthAmerica.The observancestarted in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnsons administration as a one-week celebration called Hispanic Heritage Week.Years later, President Ronald Reagan proposed extendingthis celebration into a month-long event.It was enacted into law on Aug. 17, 1988, officially designating the 30-day period starting on Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month. New York Moves to Enact Statewide Flavored E-Cig Ban When is Hispanic Heritage Month CelebratedHispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. The celebration starts mid-month because Sept. 15 marks the independance anniversay of five countries:Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Rise in Health Uninsured May Be Linked to Immigrants Fears It is followed by Mexicos Independence Day on Sept. 16 and Chiles on Sept. 18. Another important date that falls within this 30-day period is Da de la Raza, or Columbus Day, which is celebrated on Oct. 12.What does Hispanic meanWhile many people use Latinoa and Hispanic interchangeably these two words mean different things. A Hispanic person is someone who comes from, or is a descendant of a Spanish-speaking country. Latinoa is used when referring to someone who comes from Latin America, or is a descendant from any Latin American country.A person can be both Hispanic and Latinoa, but not all Latinos are Hispanic. Brazilians, for example, are Latinos, but their native language is not Spanish. Conversely, not all Hispanics are Latinoa. Spaniards are considered Hispanic, but not Latinos, since they are part of the European Union.Hispanic countries are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.Latin American countries are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadaloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthlemy, Saint Martin, Uruguay, and Venezuela.How many Hispanics are there in the U.S.The Pew Research Center says the U.S. Hispanic population is the nations second-fastest-growing ethnic group after Asians. The Hispanic population in the U.S. as of July 1, 2017 is 58.9 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics account for18.1 of the total U.S. population.How to celebrate Hispanic Heritage MonthPeople use this celebration to show the importance of Hispanics in the U.S. by donating to Hispanic charities, eating food from any of the countries that are being celebrated, learning from their cultures and honoring influential Hispanics who have made an impact on society. Follow NBC Latinos series called Latino20, featuring 20 notable Hispanic figuresincluding celebrities, business executives and activists, for more.Photo Credit: Daria Voskoboeva/iStock/Getty Images Plus

On a quiet Monday afternoon in Santa Cruz, families lounged on the beach as a few swimmers played in the waves and a lone fisherman cast his line in the water from the cliffs off in the distance.It was, by all accounts, a beautiful day. But just a few miles away at the Santa Cruz NOAA research campus, scientists see those perfect conditions as a quiet omen of whats brewing just over the horizon. Guy Fieri Cooks Barbecue in Fire-Devastated Santa Rosa Were talking about a huge area of much warmer-than-normal surface temperatures over the northeast Pacific Ocean, said NOAA research scientist Nate Mantua.560165921, C How You Can Help Northern California Fire Victims Mantua is NOAAs resident expert on what have come to be known as blob events marine heat waves like the one discovered in late 2013, in nearly the same spot as the current warm spot. That event, now immortalized in Wikipedia as The Blob Pacific Ocean persisted, on and off, for most of three years.We all know about heat waves on land, Mantua said. We live through them. Sometimes they last for a couple of days. A War Zone: Some Locals Say They Wont Return After Fires A marine heat wave is a similar phenomenon: a pocket of warm air that simply stops moving due to a lack of wind, and heats everything below it until atmospheric conditions start moving it along again. But in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, these events can last for weeks, months or even years and the last one had dramatic effects on the oceans fragile ecosystem.560166101, CFor California sea lions, lots of pups were starving and abandoned by their moms, Mantua said. And a spike in whale entanglements in fishing gear, especially Dungeness crab fishing gear.The death and suffering among marine mammals along the coast, Mantua said, was the result of a long chain reaction that started about a thousand miles off the California coast, just north of Hawaii. A patch of water about three times the size of Alaska, and 150 feet deep, was found to have water temperatures as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average.560166051, CHistorically, Mantua said, the slow progression of climate change has accounted for about a 1.5 degree increase in average ocean temperatures per year so a 7-degree increase is more than enough to cause havoc. It starts with a change in currents deep below the surface that prevents nutrients on the ocean floor from rising into shallower water. That causes plankton to die off, and sends the fish that eat the plankton searching for food in chillier water near the shore.For humans, that has an upside: great sport fishing for cold-water fish like albacore tuna that would normally be too far away to catch. But for mammals that live in the ocean, it means competition: sea lions, whales and shore birds all crammed into a tiny sliver of cool water near the coast, all looking for fish.With this new warm blob, Mantua says some of the same problems are already starting to appear. Though theres no reliable way to predict how long the warm patch will stick around, he said, the impact on marine life and fisheries could be significant if it doesnt dissipate soon.The whales during the last blob event were feeding much more in-shore than they typically were found, especially humpback whales targeting anchovies, and were looking at a similar situation now where theres a lot of anchovies along Californias central coast, he said. So if the whales stay in these shallow waters on the continental shelf, that can put them much more in conflict with fishing gear.560166181, CThe Dungeness crab fishery experienced other problems during the 2014-2016 event, including a drastically shortened season due to a toxic algae bloom. The algae produced an acid that didnt harm the crabs, but was poisonous to anyone who ate them. Scientists believe the over-abundance of toxic algae during those years was a result of the unusually warm water.Though meteorologists are just beginning to get a handle on what causes blob events and why theyre so stubborn Mantua says there does seem to be a correlation with warming in other parts of the world.It may be related to conditions in the tropics, or at high latitude, where the Arctic is especially warm again this summer and sea ice is very scarce, he said. So weve got big changes going on around the whole planet that can influence the weather of the North Pacific.560165981, CThe ocean, he said, has taken the brunt of the impact from human-caused climate change and occasionally shows it with prolonged weather events like El Nio that begin over water, but can have disruptive effects over land.The oceans are a huge reservoir for thermal energy, so as they warm up, theyre holding onto a lot of that heat, he said. When they give some of that back to the atmosphere it disrupts weather patterns, and we can feel that whether its with big flood events, or droughts, or heat waves. So its a critical part of the climate system and its changing. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

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No evidence of a shooting was found. Police are still investigating the incident.