Archive for July, 2009

Florida man sees security exercise, calls police

Friday, July 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A nationwide government anti-terrorism exercise this week inadvertently alarmed a Florida man who happened to catch a mock television broadcast that was component of the drill. The Homeland Security Department coordinated the five-day discipline, the sort of one. simulated "real the breath of one's nostrils" scenarios, and included one internal broadcast of fake news with ...

Firm forged letters to lawmaker on climate bill

Friday, July 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington grassroots lobbying compressed has acknowledged forging anti-climate bill letters purporting to be from a topical NAACP chapter and a Latino advocacy group to a Virginia lawmaker, and a congressional committee said it was launching an examination. The office of freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello discovered that a half-dozen letters it received had nearly ...

AP Sources: Deadline for bipartisan health effort

Friday, July 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic officials pronounce a Sept. 15 deadline has been imposed on efforts to produce a bipartisan agreement in succession freedom from disease care legislation in the Senate. The deadline comes at the end of a tumultuous week in which a group of three Democrats and three Republicans reported indicative progress toward a engage, then struggled ...

Bomber Hunt: Women Among Eta Suspects

Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photos of the six alleged ETA suspects Two police officers were killed in some attack on the island of Majorca on Thursday and 64 the million were injured in an explosion in the northern city of Burgos the twenty-four hours in the sight of. Both attacks, what one. happened outside police ...

Air Passengers Snap As Croc Goes On Loose

Friday, July 31st, 2009
A similar-sized crocodile to the one that was seized People screamed similar to the 1ft-long reptile made its way under seats and down the aisle for the period of the international hasty departure. Fortunately, a crew limb on the EgyptAir flight from Abu Dhabi to Cairo managed to catch the wayward ...