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A former graduate student at George Washington University and intern for U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, Bleiweiss has been an officer with BSO for over six years. He was nominated for the award by his shift supervisors, Sergeants John Nash and Kelvin Phillips, and a panel of field training officers and sergeants reviewed the 15 to 20 nominees. Final voting is done by secret ballot. Broward County Sheriff's Department Deputy, Jonathan Bleiweiss, 28, received the 2008 Employee of the Year award for the Oakland Park Division for his outstanding work, at a ceremony on the evening of Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at the Oakland Park City Hall. This is the first time an openly gay deputy received this award from BSO. Bleiweiss credits his success to a supportive environment within the Broward Sheriff's department. 'I think it shows how far we've come in the world when a police worker, an openly gay officer, could achieve an award like this,' Bleiweiss said. 'I don't think that five or six y

California's air pollution agency urged federal regulators on Thursday to reverse a Bush-era decision that blocks the state from setting its own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars.

A reliance on toxic or rare and expensive materials means that much of today's renewable energy technology may be a dead end – but at last change is in the air

In this archived segment, host Madeleine Brand and former host Alex Chadwick discuss their travels in the Pacific Rim region for NPR's climate change series 'Climate Connections'. Madeleine traveled to Hawaii and Japan. And Alex traveled to Palmyra. This chat originally aired on October 3, 2007. Then Madeleine elaborates on her trip to one of the world's largest fish markets in Tokyo called the Tsukiji Fish Market. It's a place famous for the highest-quality tuna featured at the city's best sushi restaurants. This story originally aired on July 23, 2007.

(Georgetown) - Guyana should halt arrests and police abuse of transgender people and repeal a repressive law that criminalizes wearing clothes considered appropriate only for the opposite sex, six human rights organizations said today in a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo.read more

A man who was sentenced to life in prison after he admitted taking part in the murder of a D.C. police officer is entitled to a hearing on whether his sentence should be reduced because of errors made by the then-Prince George's County judge who presided over the case, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled last week.