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ICE Investigates Human Smuggling After Deadly Crash
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating human smuggling after a truck packed with illegal immigrants crashed in rural southern Texas, killing 17 and injuring nine, the Associated Press reports. Of the those killed, 11 were male and three female. At least two were children. They came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras,…
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“Before, we couldn even talk about the beatification of children in the history of the church because the principle prevailed that they didn yet have the skills to exercise the heroic level of Christian virtues,” required as a first step Replica Hermes, Saraiva Martins said in an interview. The country was proclaimed a republic after…
NCAA Message Falls Shorts in Penn State Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The NCAA wanted to send a message that protecting children is more important than Penn State football. But if the NCAA really meant it, it would have suspended play for at least a year. A $60 million fine essentially amounts to one year of revenue generated from the program. And no…
ICE Agent Accidentally Shoots Self
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in Miami Beach after a traffic stop Saturday, NBC 6 Miami reports. After talking to the driver of the car he pulled over, the agent was walking back to his car when his gun went off and shot him in the leg….
FBI Probes Link Between Shooter and Adult Dating Website
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a potential link between an adult dating website and the man accused in the Aurora, Colo. massacre, the Washington Post reports. Authorities said they found an account on Adult Friend Finder, called Classicjimbo, that resembles the shooter, James Holmes. On the account on the site, which is for…
War on Drugs Goes to Africa
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. is expanding its war on drugs to Africa, the New York Times reports. Targeting areas used to smuggle Latin American cocaine into Europe, the U.S. is training an elite unit of counter-narcotics police in Ghana and plans to do so with Nigeria and Kenya. The aggressive position in Africa is…
Fallen ATF Agent John Capano Honored with Street Naming
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent who was killed trying to prevent a pharmacy robbery in his hometown in New York had a portion of a street named after him over the weekend, Newsday reports. Senior Special Agent John F. Capano Avenue is the new name of Waverly Avenue at Seamans Neck Road where Capano…
Appeals Court Revives Discrimination Suit by FBI Supervisor Bassem Youssef
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian-born FBI supervisor, will have another chance to prove he was discriminated against after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Associated Press reports. A federal appeals court, in a 3-0 vote, revived the workplace discrimination case after a judge in 2008 ruled the case was insufficient because Youssef didn’t…