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Former FBI Informant Wishes He Had Chosen His Path Differently
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If Ronald M. Fino could do it over again, he would have chosen his role with the FBI a bit differently, the Buffalo News reports. Fino was an FBI informant, Buffalo labor leader and organized crime associate. Instead of being a paid informant, Fino said he wished he had become an…
Border Patrol Agent Fatally Shoots Mother of Five in Suburban San Diego
By Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com A 32-year-old mother of five in suburban San Diego is dead after a Border Patrol agent shot her while riding on the hood of her car Friday, Fox News reports. Family members and authorities disagree on what happened. Local police said Valeria Alvarado, 32, was fatally shot when she ran into…
Lee Boyd Malvo, 10 years After D.C. Area Sniper Shootings: ‘I Was a Monster’
By Josh White Washington Post Lee Boyd Malvo said he remembers each of the sniper shootings in detail. But one moment — one image — stands out among the carnage of that terrifying time 10 years ago: “Mr. Franklin’s eyes.” Malvo remembers being in the blue Chevrolet Caprice, in which police found binoculars and…
FBI Probe of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack Involves Environmental Clean Up Company
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ongoing investigation of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack includes an environmental cleanup that was awarded city work at rates much higher than quotes obtained from three competitors, reports the Times of Trenton, citing recently obtained records. Turns out, according to the records, the company Clean Green received the job without a…
Minnesota Man Accused of Helping Terrorist Group to Stand Trial Today
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you ask, Mahamud Said Omar is either a well-connected member of an Islamist terror group or he’s mental ill and incapable of being an integral part of a terrorism recruiting network, the Star Tribune reports. Today the 46-year-old Somali man who immigrated to Minnesota in 1993 is expected to…
FBI Probes Whether Domestic Terrorism Behind Fire at Mayor’s Law Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating whether a fire at the private law office of Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis in California was an act of domestic terrorism, reports NBC Bay Area. Vallejo Fire Chief Paige Meyer said the early Saturday morning blaze looks “very suspicious,” NBC Bay Area reported. The city called in the…
the health food chain Holland Barrett
Two years ago, the health food chain Holland Barrett complained about mail order firms selling specialist food supplements and herbal remedies out of the Channel Islands. It was calculated that a firm set up in the Channel Islands in 2008 had cornered more than a fifth of the entire non store UK market in vitamins…