Weekend Series on Crime History: The Green River Killer
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Paul Harvey, the radio personality with the baritone voice who entertained America for generations, enjoyed a 20 year friendship with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the Washington Post reported. The paper reported that Harvey, who died last February at 90, often submitted “advance copies of his radio script for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former high ranking Secret Service agent was among 22 executives of military and law enforcement supply companies indicted this week in an FBI sting involving foreign bribery and sale of small arms, amunition and protective gear to Africa. Patrick Caldwell, the chief executive officer of Florida-based Protective Products…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alice J. Manning, 82, who was featured in a Washington Post article in 1946 along with her seven brothers and sisters, and who worked as a secretary for the FBI and an administrative assistant for the Justice Department, died in Baltimore last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. She…
tefillin/istock photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye. A US Airways Express flight carrying 15 passengers from New York to Louisville on Thursday was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish teenager put on a religious prayer object called a tefillin, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said the 17-year-old from White Plains, N.Y., put on the tefillin,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Drama for the cast of “Two and a Half Men” seems to be going far beyond the tv screen. TMZ is reporting that the FBI is investigating allegations by Jon Cryer, who co-stars with Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit, that his ex-wife may have hired a hitman to kill him….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Let the fun begin. The Justice Department is firing back as tension between the agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence seems to be on the rise. On Wednesday, Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told a Congressional committee that he was never consulted before the FBI decided…