By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An investigation is underway after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a suspected “illegal border crosser” Thursday while on patrol near the U.S.-Canada border in Washington State, CNN reports. CBP said the agent, whose identity has not been released, fired his weapon after he was assaulted by the suspect. “The agent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Notorious mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, who seized Boston’s criminal underworld in the 1970s and ’80s, likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury found him guilty Monday of murder and racketeering. Wearing a gray shirt, dark pants and sneakers, the 83-year-old who occasionally shouted in anger…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you figured the testimony of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his retrial on corruption charges in downtown Chicago would be filled with shenanigans and piss off the judge, well…. you guessed right. First off, the U.S. District Judge James Zagel on Wednesday got angry after Blago tried “smuggling” in evidence…
