The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued a recommendation for a nationwide ban on using any electronics while driving, including hands-free devices at an afternoon press conference at the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center.
There were a total of 189 explosive device incidents that prompted the deployment of bomb squads during the month of October, according to a Department of Homeland Security monthly report on improvised explosive device incidents in the United States.
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►The Los Angeles times on Saturday reported the “first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator drone.” A SWAT team, bomb squad, the highway patrol, deputies from surrounding counties, and a Predator drone were enlisted to aid in an investigation of the disappearance of six cows from a farm in North Dakota after a deputy tried to serve a warrant and was met by armed property owners.
Virginia State Police has released the name of the officer killed in Thursday’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Deriek W. Crouse, a 39-year-old husband, father of five children, and four-year veteran of the force was killed Thursday afternoon by a gunman whose name has yet to be released.
One day after Rep. Peter King’s fourth installment of Muslim radicalization hearings, a session focused on examining threats to military facilities and members, one of two men accused of plotting an attack on a military in-processing center pleaded guilty.
