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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…
Observations After Week 1 of Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Corruption Trial
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– Observations from the federal courthouse on Lafayette Blvd.: Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is still managing to muster a smile after a week of his public corruption trial. And yes, he’s looking rather dapper, some days wearing a bow tie, others a traditional one. That being said, the…
Woman Who Found Renoir Painting at Yard Sale for $7 Might Not Be So Lucky After All
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Virginia woman who hit the yard sale equivalent of the jackpot with the $7 purchase of a rare Renoir painting may have gotten more than she bargained for, the Washington Post reports. A highly publicized auction for the impressionist painting was canceled after new evidence found this week suggests the work…
Airline Passenger Accused of Saying, ‘I Will Murder All of You’
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One sure way to draw the attention of authorities is to threaten to kill all of the passengers aboard a commercial jet. “I’m from Afghanistan and I will murder all of you,” Arash “Ash” Durrani, 26, is accused of saying on an Chicago-to-Orange County flight, the L.A. Times reports. Durrani is to…
Man Won’t Receive Death Penalty for Killing DEA Informant
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Edison Burgos Montes escaped the death penalty but faces life in prison in the killing of an DEA informant, a Puerto Rican jury decided Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Montes was convicted in August of killing his girlfriend, Madelyn Semidey Morales, in July 2005. She was cooperating with a DEA probe against…