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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: Employees, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation Security Administration, Budget Control Act of 2011
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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: Civil Rights, Defendants, Prosecution, Police Arrests, Bob Hope
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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: Transportation Security Administration, Prosecution, Trials, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Transportation Security Administration, Transportation, Trials, National Security, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Mike Lee, Christopher A. Coons, Politics, Immigration, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Deerfield, Highland Park spring sports teams performing well
From mid-May through early June, state spring sports are winding down in Illinois and every day brings that win-or-go-home excitement. Here is a wrapup on how some of the area teams have fared in recent weeks. Boys tennis Deerfield's tennis team...
Tags: Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), High School Sports, Grayslake, Deerfield, Illinois High School Association
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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: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Barack Obama, Punishment
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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: Religion and Belief, Culture, Judaism, Philosophy, Interior Policy
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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: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, National Security, Government
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...Tags: Advertising, Electronics, Science and Technology, Pandora Media, Inc., Hulu
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