By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than six decades later, Adolph Hitler’s name still stirs up trouble. The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago admonished U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa of eastern Wisconsin for comparing a convicted drug dealer Jose Figueroa’s love of family to Adolf Hitler’s love for his dog….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest sign in the U.S. that there’s a drug war in Mexico: U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico Saturday after coming under attack in south Texas along the Rio Grande, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said the incident happened during a half-ton drug bust that involved Border Patrol…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The late “original civil rights photographer” Ernest Withers snapped shots of history: the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot; King riding one of the first desegregated buses in Alabama. But there was a little known side to the man who had a front row seat in the civil rights…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana appears to be in big big trouble. A U.S. Senate impeachment trial began Monday in Washington to try and oust the presidentially-appointed judge, who is 63. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who heads five-member House team serving as prosecutors for the trial, said in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Inspector General is probing allegations that the agency’s civil rights division was racially discriminatory when it came to enforcing voting laws, the Washington Post reported. The Post reports that the probe grows out of a voter intimidation case from 2008 in which members of the New Black Panther…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Despite a sour economy and disturbingly high unemployment, property crime dropped in 2009 for the seventh year in a row, according to FBI statistics released today. Violent crime also declined for the third consecutive year. The FBI statistics show the murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate dropped by 7.3 percent…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The so-called “underwear bomber” who allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane showed up in chains today in a federal courtroom in Detroit and hinted that he might want to plead guilty to some charges, according to newspaper reports. Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, also fired his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Futuristic law enforcement equipment keeps improving. The latest: Improvements in iris scan technology that can read people’s eyes to identify them, USA Today reports. It’s considered a quicker alternative to fingerprinting. USA Today reports that the Department of Homeland Security will run a two-week test in October of commercially sold iris…
