By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Nashville FBI agent, who is married to a Christian gospel singer, has been indicted on host of fraud charges, including allegations he defrauded the SunTrust Mortgage Company to buy $1.25 million in rental properties in 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville announced. Additionally, the 19-count indictment issued Wednesday charged…
By Glynnesha Taylor and Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI badge was inside a parked car one moment and gone the next. News of the missing badge first turned up in a blurb on Thursday in a weekly section of the Washington Post that lists crimes in Fairfax County, a suburb of Washington. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The real math lesson here is: Don’t be so creative while teaching a math lesson. Better that it be boring. The Secret Service investigated a Corner High School math teacher in Jefferson County, Ala. after he demonstrated parallel lines and angles and explained where an assassin should stand to shoot President…
UPDATE: (Fri. May 21) — The battle between Richard Convertino and prosecutors came to an abrupt halt Thursday when Convertino’s client, ex-state Rep. Mary Waters pleaded guilty in the bribery case along with her co-defendant Sam Riddle. Waters, who pleaded to a misdemeanor, is expected to get probation and Riddle could get up to 37…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent shot and killed an Army veteran Wednesday night after he allegedly came at the agent with a knife at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., authorities said, according to a press conference aired on Tampa television. Authorities said that the veteran was a guest at the base’s…
