By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gun charges have been added to four members of the Hutaree, a Michigan-based Christian militia, which is accused of plotting to kill police officers and cause a revolt against the government, the Detroit Free Press reported. A federal grand jury added the charges Wednesday.. The charges include possession of a machine…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over the FBI’s fatal shooting of a Detroit imam last October may not go away any time soon. The Detroit Free Press reports that a noted pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, who did a pathology report at the request of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News After glad-handing citizens and hustling on the campaign trail, Rod Blagojevich, the man with the trademark Beatles-style do, convinced 1.7 million Illinois voters to re-elect him governor in 2006. Nearly four years later, the now-impeached governor hopes to win over just 12 very important votes: the jurors who will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Amy S. Hess is leaving FBI headquarters to take the post as special agent in charge of the Memphis office, the FBI announced Wednesday. Hess most recently served as section chief in the International Operations Division. She joined the FBI in 1991 and was first assigned to the Kansas…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News For the past four years, 73-year-old fugitive Paul Clouston toiled away in relative anonymity in Merced, Calif., despite being featured several times on a nationally televised crime show. The convicted cop killer and child molester was captured just as quietly. He was reading a newspaper at the men’s group…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities are condemning the death of a 32-year-old Mexican man who died days after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shocked him with a stun gun at a California border crossing, the Associated Press is reporting. AP reported that Anastasio Hernandez died Monday at a hospital in Chula Vista, south of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The fallout from the Times Square car bomb case on May 1 could lead to deportations. A federal immigration judge in Boston has scheduled an Aug. 10 deportation hearing for Pakistani Pir Khan, 43, of Watertown, Mass., one of three men arrested after FBI agents acted on information provided by the…
By New Orleans Times-Picayune Editorial NEW ORLEANS — The Justice Department’s investigation into possible criminal and civil violations related to BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an important and necessary step. The more Americans learn about the decisions and missteps that may have contributed to the disaster, the more it seems that…
