Friday, July 30th, 2010

Troops kill senior ‘capo’ of mighty Mexico cartel.

Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.
Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a reputed founder of Mexico’s methamphetamine trade, was gunned down trying to escape [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

No takers on hoagies for guns swap in Pt. Breeze, Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia hoagie shop is offering gun owners a deal this week: turn in your weapon and get two hoagies, chips, and a drink.
Despite the best efforts of Ricci’s Hoagie Shop, no one has taken advantage of the deal.
The lunch rush is lining up at the hoagie shop in Point Breeze. Store owner Rich Pagliarella [...]

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010

U.S. Army veteran in Colombia feels like he’s caught in a no-fly trap.

A 29-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran sits in a bare apartment in a poor part of the Colombian capital, Bogota. He wants to come home, but he can’t. He thinks it’s because he’s on the federal government’s “no-fly list.”
Raymond Earl Knaeble is one of an unknown number of Americans stranded overseas. They can’t fly [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Store owner slaps gun away from armed robber.

He acted on instinct. His employee was staring at a gun pointed at her. The owner of a South Side cell phone store is speaking out about how he took the gun away from an armed robber on Tuesday, and his decision not to shoot. CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports.
A suspect pulls out a gun [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Law Enforcement »

Video: Undercover Chinese police woman guns down hostage taker.

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops plans tactical assault on Nintendo DS; SOCOM 4 officially delayed.

De-classifying previously top secret information, Activision Publishing, Inc. revealed new details today about Call of Duty®: Black Ops’ release on November 9th with the confirmation of an all-new companion game for the Nintendo DS™ family of hand-held systems, developed exclusively for the platform by n-Space. Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Nintendo DS will [...]

Related Topics: SOCOM, Video Games

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Military »

Oct. 21 is last day to apply for stop-loss pay.

Time is running out for current and former troops involuntarily held on active duty beyond their service commitments to apply for retroactive $500 monthly payments.
The wartime special pay program applies to all service members who served from Sept. 11, 2001, to Sept. 30, 2009, and were kept on duty beyond their original separation, resignation or [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Law Enforcement »

CNN Video: Arizona police get new training.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien reports on training designed to avoid racial profiling while enforcing Arizona’s immigration law.

Related Topics: Arizona, Training

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Parts of controversial Arizona immigration law take effect.

Parts of an Arizona immigration law take effect Thursday after a federal judge blocked several of its most controversial aspects.
The preliminary injunction, issued Wednesday, means that, at least for now, police are prevented from questioning people’s immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also [...]

Related Topics: Arizona, immigration