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Bomb experts check out potential airport threats
About once a day, a passenger at one of South Florida's three major airports tries to take an item through security that could be mistaken for a bomb. Rather than evacuate terminals and alert police bomb squads, the Transportation Security...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Automotive Equipment, X-rays, Medical Procedures and Tests, Explosions
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ODD: TSA agents stop Chewbacca actor over light saber
DENVER (AP) — Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel. Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver briefly stopped "Star Wars" franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as...
Tags: Celebrities, Media Industry
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TSA stops another gun at OIA
A woman escorting a passenger to a flight at Orlando International Airport was arrested Thursday morning for carrying a loaded handgun through security, records show. A Transportation Security Administration officer discovered the .380-caliber pistol...
Tags: Orlando Police Department, Orlando International Airport, Firearms
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Murkowski Pleased with TSA Turnaround on Knives
Channel 2 NewsU.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's glad small knives will not be allowed on commercial passenger airlines. The administrator of the Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that the agency is abandoning its plan to let passengers... -
TSA to continue prohibiting carry-on pocket knives on planes
Under pressure from lawmakers and flight attendants, the Transportation Security Administration said it would indefinitely prohibit passengers from carrying small pocket knives on planes — a ban that began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Los Angeles International Airport, Edward J Markey, Michael Grimm, U.S. Congress
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TSA knife ban to remain
After months of debate and protest, the Transportation Security Administration said it will indefinitely keep in place a ban on passengers carrying small pocket knives on planes--a ban that began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. TSA chief John...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport
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TSA drops plan to allow small knives on planes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Transportation Security Administration says he's dropping a proposal that would have let airline passengers carry small knives, souvenir bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes. The proposal had...Tags: Washington, DC
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Goodbye 'nude scanners.' Hello new headache.
There’s no appeasing the paranoid, it seems. The Transportation Security Administration has done away with its controversial “nude scanners,” which took full-body X-rays of passengers to ensure no one would board a plane with hidden...
Tags: X-rays, Medical Procedures and Tests, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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TSA stops using 'nude scanners'
The "nude scanners" are gone. The full-body scanners that used X-rays to create what look like nude images of passengers have been packed away and removed from airports across the country. The 250 or so machines were removed about two weeks ago,...
Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Medical Procedures and Tests, Air Transportation, Interior Policy, Politics
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TSA chief defends allowing knives on planes
Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole has delayed a plan to let passengers carry small pocketknives on planes for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But it is clear from a speech he gave last week at George...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Los Angeles International Airport, United Nations, Air and Space Accidents, Air Transportation Industry
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TSA finds record 65 weapons on U.S. airport passengers last week
Airport security officers uncovered a record 65 firearms on passengers boarding planes last week, surpassing the previous record high of 50 guns. The Transportation Security Administration reported 54 of the guns found at airport security checkpoints...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Almost a 'Trusted Traveler': Are the airport hassles behind her now?
I'm a step closer to Trusted Traveler status. In a post that ran May 17, I wrote that I had received conditional approval for the Trusted Traveler program as part of the Global Entry system but that the earliest available appointment was Aug. 6....
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles International Airport, Transportation Industry
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