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Kansas Senate Votes to Let State and Fed Prosecutors Carry Guns in Court
Well, maybe defendants will be a little better behaved if prosecutors pack heat. Who knows? By CARL MANNING The Associated Press TOPEKA — Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman thinks allowing prosecutors to carry concealed guns in county courthouses could give them an added measure of protection if they ever needed it. And on Thursday,…
Ex-N.Y. State Sen. Majority Leader Joseph Bruno Indicted
BY GLENN BLAIN DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU ALBANY –Former State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was indicted Friday on charges of pocketing at least $3 million by steering contracts to select businesses. Bruno, who retired from the Legislature in July after more than 32 years in office, was charged in an eight-count indictment with taking…
Internet Child Porn Cases Creates Backlog in FBI Computer Lab
If press releases are any measure, the federal government is being inundated with child porn cases. The Internet, for all its greatness, has created a nightmare in the area of child porn. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The FBI’s stepped-up effort to fight Internet child pornography has led to an evidence backlog in the…
Ex-NSA Analysts Says Agency Targeted Journalists and Honed in On All U.S. Communications
In the comings months we’re likely to hear more and more allegations of improper government eavesdropping. Here we go… By Kim Zetter WIRED Just one day after George W. Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists, and vacuumed in all domestic communications of…
Feds in Ala. Indict 12 in Nationwide Illegal Steroid Operation
Dangerous steroids continue to pose a problem in this country. Here’s the latest crackdown. By GARRY MITCHELL Associated Press Writer MOBILE, Ala. — A federal grand jury has indicted three owners of a Mobile-based pharmacy, four pharmacists and five others in a $4 million steroid distribution scheme that allegedly operated in at least 10 states,…
Alabama’s First Black Federal Judge Stepping Down
In his resignation letter to President Obama, he wrote: “On a personal note, I am ecstatic over your election. My exceeding joy springs from my background as a laborer in the vineyards of civil and human rights. It has been my lifelong dream that at some point in the indefinite future, a black American would…
Terrorists Get It: The Government Should too When it Comes to Using the “New Media”
The terrorists get it. The U.S. government should too. The author insists the government needs to take advantage of the New Media for “emergency response, open-source intelligence gathering and the ideological struggle for hearts and minds”. By Chris Battle Foreign Policy Journal WASHINGTON — Talk to some in the national and homeland security environment, and…
Chicago Cop Pleads In Fed Court To Beating Handcuffed Man In Wheelchair
In a department that has had its fair share of negative publicity, this can’t help. BY FRAN MAIN Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — A Chicago Police officer pleaded guilty today to a civil rights violation for beating a 60-year-old man who was handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair. “I lost it,” Officer William Cozzi admitted in…