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Hundreds of FBI Agents Investigating Arizona Shooting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Days after the tragic shooting in Arizona, hundreds of FBI agents are tracing the steps of shooter Jared Loughner, trying to figure out motive, a timeline leading up to the incident and who he had been in contact with, NPR radio reports. NPR reported that inside the bureau the investigation is…
Border Patrol Agent Busted for Harboring Illegal Immigrants Including His Father
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Ysidro, Calif., was busted Monday on charges of harboring illegal immigrants in his home including his father, who had been convicted of marijuana possession for sale and was twice deported to Mexico, Fox5 San Diego reported. The station, citing the FBI, reported that agent…
Board Rules that Fired U.S. Park Police Chief Can Be Reinstated and Get 6 Years of Back Pay
By Allan Lengel ticklethewirecom WASHINGTON — Patience and persistence has paid off for Teresa Chambers, who was fired as U.S. Park Police chief in 2004 in what turned into a highly controversial situation in the nation’s capital. The Merit Systems Protection Board has ruled that she can have her job back, plus more than six…
Mass. Man 2nd in Nation to Get Convicted of Pointing Laser at Aircraft
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man, who became the second person in the country convicted of pointing a laser at an aircraft, was sentenced Monday in Boston federal court to three years in prison. Gerard Sasso, 52, of Medford, Mass., was convicted of shining a powerful green laser beam into a State Police helicopter…
Ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Gets 3 Years in Prison; Remains Free On $10,000 Bond
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The once powerful U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been under FBI investigation in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal, but was never charged, was sentenced in state court Monday in Austin, Tex., to three years in prison for a scheme in which he illegally helped funnel corporate contributions…
Column: Guns and Responsibility
By Eugene Robinson Washington Post WASHINGTON — We may not be sure that the bloodbath in Tucson had anything to do with politics, but we know it had everything to do with our nation’s insane refusal to impose reasonable controls on guns. Specifically, the rampage had everything to do with a 9mm semiautomatic Glock pistol…
Men in FBI Gear Ransack Buffalo Home; Shoot Man and Pistol Whip Wifeles
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Buffalo police are investigating a Monday morning home robbery that reportedly involved at least four men who were wearing FBI badges and jackets, radio station WBEN reported. A man was shot in the hand and his wife was pistol-whipped. The station reported that the man claimed he was stopped by four…
Indicted Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick May Not Face Fed Jury Until Summer of 2012
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Motor City is in for some entertainment and potentially a long long stretch of bad publicity. Why? Because ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and four others charged in a federal public corruption indictment may not go before a jury — if they choose that route — until the summer of 2012,…