By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — U.S. District Judge Terrence Berg could be a spokesman for having a good attitude about Detroit despite being the victim of a shooting outside his home in city’s University District earlier this month during an attempted robbery. “Overall, I have such a positive feeling about Detroit and where…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fred Phelps, the founder of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, was no stranger to the FBI. In fact, The Hill reports that Phelps was “well known to the FBI,” according to his newly released 250-page bureau file. Phelps, who died in March 2014, first came on the FBI’s radar in 1967…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is investigating an intentionally set fire at a church where Michael Brown’s father regularly attended in Ferguson, Mo., the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Flood Christian Church was among dozens of buildings that were torched following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who shot…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is taking part in the investigation in what might be a series of hate crimes, reports WBIR. The investigation revolves around the vandalism of three churches and a former church in West Knox County The FBI has joined in the investigation of vandalism at three churches and a vacant…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Not everyone rejoiced the day after President Obama was elected as the first African-American President. In fact, Massachusetts resident Benjamin Haskell, 23, celebrated by burning down a yet to be completed, predominantly African-American church in Springfield, Mass., on Nov. 5, 2008, the morning after the election, authorities said. On Wednesday, he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is offering a $5,000 reward for for information leading to the arrest in the January arson fire at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a beach community in San Diego County. Authorities say sometime between 8:00 p.m. on Jan. 24, and 6:30 a.m. on Jan….
It may be that this country is not quite ready to give up on the the great political race of 08. Or maybe it’s just a crazy arsonist? By The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin’s church before fire heavily damaged the building, federal investigators…
