A US federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in case of six Florida men charged with plotting to blow up buildings with help from the Al-Qaeda terror network.Prosecutors had asked for stiff prison sentences for the defendants known as
An unemployed graphic designer who authorities believe was nearly killed by ricin was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of possessing the deadly toxin in what he described as an "exotic idea," never carried out, to poison unspecified enemies.Roger Bergendorff was
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relatives and thanked colleagues after being released Wednesday from more than two years in U.S. military custody. Hussein, 36, was freed at a checkpoint in Baghdad, where he was taken by the military
Concerned that not enough attention is being paid to the risk of a nuclear attack, a Senate committee yesterday looked at the consequences of such a terrorist strike in Washington — and said that more could be done to save
Scottsdale police are looking for a man who allegedly fired one gunshot on the grounds of Cocopah Middle School Wednesday morning.The campus went into lockdown for about 90 minutes as officers searched for the gunman, but has since returned to
A 17-year-old high school sophomore was shot and killed Wednesday by a police officer on campus.The officer, identified as Tom Perry, fired after the student at Roosevelt High School allegedly hit the officer with a baseball bat, police said.Perry walked
A Seattle police officer who pulled over Naveed Haq said everything about the encounter seemed routine, leaving no hint that in less than 20 minutes, the man would walk into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and open fire.Officer Glen
Prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging two area men with federal sabotage for allegedly stealing tons of copper from an ammunition manufacturing plant.Charles Dale Osborn, 45, of Odessa, Mo., and Timothy Duane Langevin, 36, of Independence, were charged in the
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (PPC) confirmed the Department of Homeland Security took 400 employees into custody at five processing facilities across the South.The company said it is working to "prevent or minimize" disruptions in operations at the affected sites."According to the
As one might imagine, security is extremely tight in both Washington D.C. and New York City. With Pope Benedict XVI's much-anticipated landing Tuesday at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, the NYPD has already begun beefing up its police presence underground.[..]Over
Authorities are investigating a suspicious truck that was discovered leaking.There were no permits for the truck that listed it had anything inside it that could leak.The truck was last in the possession of two Saudi Arabian men who are now
The Pierce County sheriff's office says a 26-year-old man who was making a bomb died in an explosion and fire that destroyed a home in Puyallup.A body was found in the rubble."We're finding pieces 75-100 feet away," said spokesman Ed
