By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The corruption case against ex-Detroit City Council aide and political consultant Sam Riddle ended in a mistrial Wednesday after one juror refused to convict, the Detroit News reported. The government said it will retry the case. “On the steps of the federal courthouse, angry jurors said the holdout refused to deliberate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a boy who was forced to take off his leg braces at the at Philadelphia International Airport, the Associated Press reported. A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist wrote that Camden, N.J., police officer Bob Thomas said the incident happened in March when he and his wife…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The nail biting continues in Detroit where a federal jury on Wednesday is set to enter its sixth day of deliberations in the trial of Sam Riddle, an outspoken former city council aide accused of shaking down business people along with his ex-boss, Council member Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors will take a second bite out of the apple next month and retry New Jersey right wing shock jock Hal Turner for allegedly threatening three appeals court judges in Chicago through inflammatory comments on his blog. But this time prosecutors are asking the judge to bar Turner’s attorneys from…
