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Crash exposes gap in airplane security

GEORGETOWN, Texas – After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. Yet little has been done to guard against attacks with ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,  20 Feb 2010

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Texas plane crash exposes gap in US air security

GEORGETOWN, Texas - After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  20 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Internal Revenue Service,  National Transportation Safety Board,  Tom Walsh,  White House

Austin plane crash exposes gap in US air security

GEORGETOWN, Texas - After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  19 Feb 2010

Related Topics: National Transportation Safety Board,  Internal Revenue Service,  Tom Walsh,  White House

Cops search San Antonio landfill for missing baby

SAN ANTONIO—San Antonio's police chief says officers are searching a landfill for evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old boy. Chief William McManus said Tuesday that authorities "remain hopeful that Baby Gabriel is alive." Gabriel Johnson was ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  9 Feb 2010

Mistrial in alleged cartel hit man's Texas case

SAN ANTONIO—Cocaine bundled in bricks, stacks of cash, bloody corpses and braggart hit men. The evidence presented during a rare public trial of an alleged hit man for the Mexican Gulf Cartel offered what seemed like damning evidence of a drug cartel ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  5 Feb 2010

Mistrial declared in alleged cartel hit man's case

SAN ANTONIO—A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of an alleged drug cartel hit man after a jury in the Texas-Mexico border town of Laredo acquitted him on a gun charge and deadlocked on other charges. Prosecutors had accused Gerardo ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  4 Feb 2010

Jury gets case against alleged cartel hit man

LAREDO, Texas—Jurors in Texas have begun deliberating in the trial of an alleged drug cartel hit man. The jury is considering conspiracy, drug and weapons charges against Gerardo Castillo (kas-TEE'-yoh) Chavez, known as "Cheeks." Prosecutors accuse him ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  3 Feb 2010

Alleged cartel hit man on trial in US border city

A rare trial of an alleged drug cartel hit man is winding down in the Texas border city of Laredo. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have called their last witnesses and will offer closing arguments Wednesday to a federal jury in the case against ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, eTaiwan News,  2 Feb 2010

Residents in Texas landslide balk at arbitration

AUSTIN, Texas - Several homeowners from a San Antonio neighborhood where a landslide threatened to topple and crush houses complained to state lawmakers Wednesday that mandatory arbitration clauses used in many new home contracts harm them. ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Centex,  Pulte Homes, Inc.

Engineers watch Texas homes for more moving soil

SAN ANTONIO—Residents of 25 homes evacuated after a landslide split a retaining wall and threatened to topple hilltop homes will not be allowed to return for at least 10 days as engineers watch for further soil movement, the developer said Tuesday. The ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  27 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Centex,  Pulte Homes, Inc.

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