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ATF Recovers Two Dozen Homemade Hand Grenades in Alabama Factory
The ATF recovered 24 homemade hand grenades from a factory in a residential neighborhood near Birmingham, Ala.
The ATF recovered 24 homemade hand grenades from a factory in a residential neighborhood near Birmingham, Ala.
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The attack on a military camp in Chattanooga was a stark reminder that not even America’s rural areas are safe from terrorist attacks. It’s why every FBI field office nationwide has a joint terrorism task force, reports ABC 30. To combat the threat in Alabama, Chris Hoffman, Supervisory Special Agent for…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has reached an agreement with the state of Alabama to undergo monitoring and serious reforms following years of complaints about female inmates being sexually assaulted by corrections staff, the Washington Post reports. An investigation by the Justice Department found that female inmates lived in a “toxic environment” at…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the first family were just about to leave for Selma, Alabama, this weekend when a fire broke out outside the White House, prompting a lock-down by Secret Service agents, WHAS 11 ABC reports. The fire was at a vendor cart east of the North Lawn, causing no injuries….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Defendants in one of the largest dog fighting busts in U.S. history received some of the stiffest prison sentences ever issued for a dog-fighting ring, the Washington Times reports. The Alabama dog fighting ring involved more than 350 dogs. “These dogs lived in deplorable conditions that constituted extraordinary cruelty,” said George…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Widespread corruption, misconduct and abusive behavior were found in Alabama’s prison system following a six-month investigation by a nonprofit law firm. Now the firm, the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, is urging the Justice Department to conduct a formal investigation, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Alleging extreme violence, security problems and a culture…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives may have been dead for more than two decades. WUSA9 reports that the FBI plans to exhume a body that bears a “strong physical resemblance” to Bradford Bishop, who has been wanted for allegedly murdering his mother, wife and three sons in Montgomery…