ATF, FBI Investigating Suspicious Package with Actual Bomb Components Outside School
Federal investigators responding to a report of a suspicious package outside of an elementary school in Alabama found a device with wires and a timer.
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Justice Department to Investigate Conditions at Prisons in Alabama
The Justice Department plans to investigate conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men following a work strike by guards.
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.
FBI Closes 1964 Civil Rights Case with No Charges Against Former Sheriff’s Deputy
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
Terrorism Threats in Alabama? It Can Happen Anywhere in Age of ISIS
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…
Help on Way for Alabama Prison Where Female Inmates Raped, Beaten
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…
Secret Service Scare: Fire Prompts Lock-Down at White House
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….
Defendants in Dog Fighting Ring Get One of Nation’s Longest Sentences for Actions
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…