By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has set up a hotline to field tips and collect visual images anyone might have captured Monday at the Boston Marathon. The number is 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), prompt #3. “No piece of information or detail is too small,” the FBI said in a press release.
By David Abel, Travis Andersen and Martin Finucane Boston Globe BOSTON — At least three people were killed and at least 125 others were injured this afternoon as two powerful explosions detonated in quick succession near the Boston Marathon finish line in Boston’s Back Bay section, transforming a scene of athletic celebration into bloody chaos….
By By Vernon Loeb and William Branigin Washington Post BOSTON — Two explosions disrupted the Boston Marathon on Monday, causing at least two deaths and nearly two dozen injuries and scattering crowds near the finish line, authorities said. The blasts occurred after the top racers had completed the course, but thousands of others were still…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Vice President Joe Biden is charging rent to his taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection so the agents can live in a cottage next to his house in Delaware, The Inquisitr reports. Under the rental agreement, which was discovered when the vice president filed his tax return, Biden receives $2,200 a month, the same…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 46-year-old man questioned in the killings of two Texas county prosecutors remained behind bars Sunday following an arrest on charges of making a terrorist threat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Investigators have questioned Eric Williams, a former justice of the peace, several times but authorities have not identified him as a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawmakers are mulling tougher border security measures designed to discourage undocumented immigrants from crossing the border, Reuters reports. But for the estimated 11 million who have already entered the country illegally, a path to citizenship may be possible under the proposal, said Senator Marco Rubio, a leader on immigration reform. “What we…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Agent Gerard Conrad was just taking a stroll in Forest Park in Queens when he stumbled upon a meeting between top Gambino mobster Bartolomeo (Bobby) Vernace and others involved in the crime family, the New York Daily News reports. Conrad happened to be supervising 15 agents who were investigating the crime…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are willing to give up increased overtime pay in exchange for not being furloughed as part of the mandated federal spending cuts, the Washington Post reports. “The reform I have just proposed saves tax dollars, reduces overtime pay and brings about financial certainty to both the Border Patrol…
