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Cutback warning was nonsensical
The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns of increased wait times at airport security checks because of “reductions in overtime and the inability of backfill positions for attrition.” Say what? A typical...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing
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Bob Hope Airport safe from sequestration cuts, so far
Bob Hope Airport will avoid the impact of $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts that are slated for midnight Friday -- a move that officials warn will force a scale back in operations at airfields across the nation. A last-minute huddle between...
Tags: Google+, Federal Aviation Administration, Barack Obama, Air Transportation Industry, John Wayne
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Woman who sued over applesauce scuffle at Bob Hope Airport files another amended complaint
This post has been corrected, see below for details. The woman who got into a tussle with security officials at Bob Hope Airport when they tried to confiscate her applesauce and other snacks filed a third amended complaint in her lawsuit this week in U....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Defendants, Police Arrests, Justice System
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Bob Hope Airport applesauce case gets messier
A woman who tussled with Bob Hope Airport security officers over a container of applesauce for her elderly mother seems poised to draw the ire of another federal official — this time a U.S. District Court judge. Nadine Hays was arrested in 2009...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Judges, Prosecution, Justice System
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Burbank receives grant to aid terror response
Of the roughly $58 million allotted to the Los Angeles area to help public safety agencies respond to terrorist threats, nearly $341,000 is coming to Burbank. The money comes by way of the Urban Area Security Initiative, a U.S. Department of Homeland...Tags: FEMA, Google Inc., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bob Hope
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Government drops airport applesauce assault case
A judge has dismissed the final complaint against the woman who engaged in a tussle last year with a federal transportation security agent over carry-on applesauce and other snacks for her 93-year-old mother at Bob Hope Airport. An administrative...Tags: Los Angeles, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Travel, Justice System
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, CBS Corp., Washington, DC, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Communication could stop a con
The South Bend piece of the Ray Holycross case has now come to an end with a guilty plea and sentencing to 18 months in jail and to pay restitution. Holycross has now been convicted of theft but the story goes much deeper than that; he was able to gain...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Punishment, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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John F. Brinson: U.S. fighting world war against a political ideology
World War I was everybody versus Germany and Austria (1914-18). World War II was everybody versus Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-45.) World War III was the Cold War, with everybody versus the Soviet communist empire (1947-91). World War IV began in 1979...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Islam, Religion and Belief, Philosophy
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, DARPA, U.S. Department of Defense
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, DARPA, U.S. Department of Defense
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Building evacuated in Aberdeen after Congressional staffers find suspicious envelopes
Three envelopes without return addresses were sent to Aberdeen offices of South Dakota's congressional delegation, causing emergency officials to block off streets and a hazardous materials team to investigate Friday. About 20 people were evacuated...
Tags: Politics, Tim Johnson, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Congress
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