I’m practicing to take the on-line Jeopardy test neaxt week. There’s the answer in the headline. So, what’s the question?
How about: What are things the TSA agent should ask you about when they’re found in your carry-on luggage?
Via Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades
AP Google
A teenage passenger from California was arrested in Nashville for plotting [...]

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The Sun
A GANG of crooks is robbing long-distance coaches by smuggling dwarves into their holds inside sports bags.
Once inside the buses the tiny thieves slip out from their hiding place to rifle through the belongings of travellers above them.
They then take their loot back to their hiding place and wait to be collected [...]

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I was out and about earlier with the scanner on. What I heard shocked me, and it’s darn hard to shock me.
Rochester NY city fire was dispatched to a “fumes in the house” call. As the engine company responded, it was advised by the dispatcher that there was a note on that address. The note [...]

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Latasha Shaw was stabbed to death in the middle of a busy Rochester intersection. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people witnessed it.
No one will identify the people involved.
Rumors abound. The family says that the group came from a local troublespot, a house where people come and go at all hours and the resident population varies [...]

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Jay Tea at Wizbang says it so much better than I did or could:
I’m an agnostic, but I’m not a hard-core religion-hating athiest, and even I have to admit that the argument here for “the hand of God” is a tough one to refute in this case. The story of Jeanne Assam is the kind [...]

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My first post about Jeanne Assam called her a hero for our time.
Jeanne Assam is someone who was in the right place at the right time and acted in the right manner. Her past is not important. Neither is her future. She did the correct thing when it needed to be done.
I’ve speculated here and [...]

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AP
The man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, police said Tuesday.
Matthew Murray, 24, was struck multiple times by a security officer at New Life Church Sunday but died after firing a single shot at himself, the El Paso County Coroner’s Office concluded after an [...]

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Here’s why she left the Minneapolis PD. Doesn’t seem like the worst thing a cop could do. Even Presidents do it, right, Bill?
Rapid City Journal
Assam is a former police officer who worked in Minneapolis during the 1990s. She grew up in Sioux Falls, went to Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., and graduated with a [...]

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Jeanne Assam went to church this past Sunday like many other Sundays. What happened next probably changed her life, and many of those around her in that church.
Denver Post
The guard who saved untold lives at New Life Church gives credit to God for giving her cover, and boosting her firepower as she shot a heavily-armed [...]

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Houston Chronicle
Since arriving in the United States from war-torn Lebanon in 1989, Samar Spinelli pursued the American Dream.
She got a college degree.
She joined the military and rose to the rank of captain.
She married, had children and served the United States with two tours of duty in Iraq.
But her life was built on lies.
On Tuesday, the [...]

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