BY ANDREW STRICKLER The Daily A host of financial issues at the nation’s largest Crime Stoppers programs is calling into question how wisely some are using funding received from their often cash-strapped communities. Many are spending just a fraction of their revenue on rewards or costs related to call centers, according to information from federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would come as no shock to find out some Republican appointees to the federal bench are not President Obama’s biggest fans. Nonetheless, it still comes as a shock that Chief Judge Richard Cebull, who is in his late 60s, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the fed bench…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would come as no shock to find out some Republican appointees to the federal bench are not President Obama’s biggest fans. Nonetheless, it still comes as a shock that Chief Judge Richard Cebull, who is in his late 60s, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the fed bench…
By Michael Grabell ProPublica A new report from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security is likely to fan rather than extinguish the debate over the safety of X-ray body scanners deployed at airports across the country. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other lawmakers have called on the Transportation Security Administration to conduct…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com About 180 federal employees have begun moving into the FBI’s new Tucson-area headquarters, which officially opened on the first of this month, reports Inside Tucson Business. The building, 92,000 square feet, consolidates three scattered locations in the area. The building is owned and operated by the Kansas-based Quality Group of Companies…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is continuing to go after “fake pot.” The agency announced earlier this week on its website that it was extending by six months a ban on five chemicals used to make fake pot, which have been sold at retail outlets and head shops. The ban, under the DEA’s emergency…
