By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — In downtown Detroit, normally Monday through Friday, ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has his hands full as a defendant in one of the biggest public corruption trials in federal court in recent times. The case started in September and will certainly go into February, if not beyond. But…
By David S. Fallis, Washington Post WASHINGTON — During the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons, the percentage of firearms equipped with high-capacity magazines seized by police agencies in Virginia dropped, only to rise sharply once the restrictions were lifted in 2004, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The White House is leading…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Another firearm traced to the botched gun-running investigation Operation Fast and Furious has turned up at a shooting, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports The Tribune wrote today that a semi-automatic pistol found at a bloody scene where five people, including a Mexican beauty queen, were killed in Sinaloa in November was…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On Thursday, Derrick Miller finally talked about the much anticipated payoff in the bathroom — something out of an episdoe of “The Sopranos.” Miller, a former close friend who was in Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration, testified at Kilpatrick’s federal trial that the then-mayor asked him to get…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Tuesday night received the Tuss McLaughry Award from the American Football Coaches Association in Nashville. The award, established in 1964, is the organization’s highest honor and is presented to distinguished Americans in recognition of outstanding service to others. “Coaches are parental figures,” Mueller said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Justice Department study has found that one in four women in jail have serious mental illnesses. The Justice Department announced the findings Wednesday in what is certain to spark more debates about access to mental health care in prison. The study also found that half of incarcerated women had received treatment for…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least nine Miami police officers are the target of an FBI investigation into a scheme to protect an illegal sports-betting operation, the Miami Herald reports. The officers are accused of protecting a Liberty City gambling ring that operated out of a barber shop. The Miami Herald wrote that six of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Local police in Ohio who are accused of mishandling a rape case involving high school football players have been bombarded with cyber attacks, the Associated Press reports. Now the FBI is trying to determine who posted a death threat to the local sheriff on Facebook and an email that shut down the…
