Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators in helicopters and on ATVs and horseback scoured the desert near the U.S.-Mexico line Tuesday to piece together what happened when a Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and his partner wounded in Arizona, the Associated Press reports. Authorities identified the slain agent as Nicholas Ivie, 30, who lived in Sierra…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department plans to use a never-opened state prison in Illinois and turn it into a federal facility, the Chicago Tribune reports. Under President Obama’s direction and over the objections of an influential Republican congressman, the Justice Department purchased the prison for $165 million. The sale is a relief to the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Surprise, surprise. The latest search for Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has turned up no evidence that he’s buried underneath a driveway in suburban Detroit, the Detroit Free Press reports. Acting on a tip, Roseville Police tested soil samples taken from the Roseville property and found no evidence of human remains, the Free…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and DEA have joined an investigation into a shooting outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Florida after a third victim has died, the Associated Press reports. The shooting Sunday morning in Winter Springs broke out as members of the Warlocks motorcycle club gathered for a meeting at the…
The 2016 SI Bend Community Baby Shower begins February 1 and runs through March 31. SI Bend is in partnership with the Deschutes County Department of Human Services who distributes the items to local families in need of clothing and basic baby care supplies. The 2015 Community Baby Shower collected over 1600 donated items with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Stephen E. Vogt, who last served as legal attache in Kabul, Afghanistan, has been named the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore Division. Vogt began his career with the FBI in August 1989 and was first stationed in Cleveland, where he investigated white-collar crime, public corruption, organized crime, and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One Border Patrol agent was shot and killed and another was wound Tuesday morning near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona this morning killed one Border Patrol agent and wounded another, the Associated Press reports, citing Homeland Security. Fox 19 reports that the wounded agent it expected to survive and was being air-lifted…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Unaware he was being watched by the FBI, Attorney General Tom Horne damaged a parked car and left the scene, authorities said, according to the Arizona Daily Star. “Apparently at the time, I didn’t think it was damaged,” Horne told the Daily Star. “I was told later it was damaged. I was…
