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Taser probe: Trooper acted "reasonably"
Associated Press - Fri Nov 30, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - A Utah trooper who used a Taser to subdue a stubborn motorist who was walking away from him during a traffic stop felt threatened and acted reasonably, state officials said Friday. More»

Police accused of protecting their own
Associated Press - Wed Nov 28, 2007
BOLINGBROOK, Illinois - Eighteen times in two years, Bolingbrook police were called to fellow officer Drew Peterson's home because of trouble between husband and wife. More»

Taser used on pregnant woman in Ohio
Associated Press - Wed Nov 28, 2007
TROTWOOD, Ohio - The FBI is investigating whether a policeman violated a pregnant woman's civil rights when he used a stun gun to subdue her, authorities in this Dayton suburb said Thursday. More»

Reversal of endangered species rulings
Associated Press - Mon Nov 26, 2007
The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday reversed seven rulings that denied endangered species increased protection, after an investigation found the actions were tainted by political pressure from a former senior Interior Department official. More»

Court to consider investor's 401(k) suit
Associated Press - Sat Nov 24, 2007
James LaRue says he lost $150,000 when his instructions to his employer on where to invest money in his retirement plan were ignored. More»

Trooper zaps driver over speeding ticket
Associated Press - Wed Nov 21, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Authorities are speeding up their investigation of a state trooper who zapped a motorist with a Taser now that video of the traffic stop has been posted on YouTube, the Utah Highway Patrol said Wednesday. More»

Military Keeps News Photographer Charges Secret
WGCL-TV - Sun Nov 18, 2007
BAGHDAD - The US military is planning to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer. More»

Sheriff indicted for forcing inmates to pay room & board
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Nov 14, 2007
A south Georgia sheriff has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly forcing about 475 inmates to pay around $30,000 for room and board to stay in Clinch County Jail. More»

FEMA forgives itself for staging fake press conference
Washington Post - Mon Nov 12, 2007
An internal investigation into a fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during last month's California wildfires found that the agency's press secretary directed aides to pose as reporters, secretly coached them during the briefing and ended the event after a final, scripted question was asked, according to a senior FEMA official. More»

Report: Police shoot, kill man holding hairbrush
CNN - Mon Nov 12, 2007
NEW YORK - Police shot and killed an unarmed young man outside his Brooklyn apartment Monday night after his mother reported a "family dispute with a gun," police and witnesses said. More»

UFOs are no joke, group says
AFP - Mon Nov 12, 2007
WASHINGTON - UFOs may be fodder for comedians but there was no joking Monday when a group of former pilots recounted seeing strange phenomena in the sky and demanded the US government reopen an investigation into unidentified flying objects. More»

Toxic gas pervasive in FEMA units, tests show
MSNBC - Sun Nov 11, 2007
More than two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the Mississippi Gulf Coast, private tests of FEMA travel trailers and mobile homes provided to storm victims indicate that high levels of formaldehyde gas in the units is much more widespread than the government has acknowledged. More»

Intel official: Expect less privacy
Associated Press - Sat Nov 10, 2007
WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. More»

L.A. police plan to map Muslim areas criticized
Associated Press - Fri Nov 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. More»

Veterans make up 1 in 4 homeless in US
Associated Press - Tue Nov 6, 2007
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. More»

Police Taser Handcuffed 14 year old girl
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Nov 2, 2007
SNELLVILLE, Georgia - A police officer was "forced" to use a Taser on a handcuffed 14-year-old girl who became unruly while trick-or-treating on Halloween night in Gwinnett County, police said Friday. More»

General says waterboarding could save U.S. lives
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Nov 2, 2007
Army General Russel Honore said the general public shouldn't be so quick to condemn the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique. More»

Judge booted for flipping coin to decide
Associated Press - Fri Nov 2, 2007
RICHMOND, Virginia - A judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided a custody dispute by flipping a coin was removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday. More»

Pipe bomb locks down Arizona nuclear plant
Associated Press - Fri Nov 2, 2007
WINTERSBURG, Arizona - As authorities tried to understand why a contract worker would bring a pipe bomb to the nation's largest nuclear power plant, one thing was immediately clear: The security worked. More»

US presidential candidate insists he saw UFO
Telegraph UK - Wed Oct 31, 2007
When you are a minor candidate in a presidential debate with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama it can be hard to get noticed. More»

Pa. hunter's images stir Bigfoot debate
Associated Press - Tue Oct 30, 2007
RIDGWAY, Pennsylvania - It's furry and walks on all fours. More»

FEMA sorry for fake news briefing
Washington Post - Fri Oct 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Number 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. More»

NASA To Search Files For UFO Incident
Associated Press - Fri Oct 26, 2007
NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. More»

Police allegedly hang quadriplegic man
Associated Press - Wed Oct 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him. More»

What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons?
Time - Wed Oct 17, 2007
An uneasy sense of deja vu swept over Florida last week after an all-white jury acquitted seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a black teen last year. More»

Pa. woman faces jail, fine for shouting profanities in her own home
Associated Press - Mon Oct 15, 2007
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania - A Scranton woman who admitted shouted profanities at her overflowing toilet within earshot of a neighbor was cited for disorderly conduct, authorities said. More»

Shots fired outside bar; cop arrested
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sun Oct 14, 2007
MARIETTA, Georgia - An Atlanta police officer has been arrested and charged with shooting at a college student and his girlfriend after an argument in a Marietta bar. More»

Staff in boot camp case walk free
BBC - Sat Oct 13, 2007
Eight defendants have been acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died after being punched and kicked at a Florida boot camp. More»

US accused of making insect spy robots
Telegraph UK - Tue Oct 9, 2007
The US government has been accused of secretly developing robotic insect spies amid reports of bizarre flying objects hovering in the air above anti-war protests. More»

Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners
CNN - Tue Oct 9, 2007
The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday. More»

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