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U.S. 'vigilant' for holiday terror threats, adviser says
U.S. security is "particularly vigilant" to terror threats over the holidays, the president's Counterterrorism adviser said Friday, striking a confident note that the United States is ready. "We always have to remain on guard," said John Brennan, the White House Counterterrorism adviser said at an event for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The holidays are a particularly sensitive time because of the increased pace of travel, Brennan noted. "I'm ...

Report: 191 Prisoners Escape Mexico Border Jail
As many as 191 Mexican Prisoners escaped early Friday morning from a jail in Nuevo Laredo near the US border, reports local TV station KGBT-TV. Nuevo Laredo is the sister city of Laredo, Tx. The Prisoners allegedly just walked out the front door, reports Agence France Presse. After the escape, the Prison's 44 Security Guards and its director were arrested, KGBT-TV reports. It was one of the biggest prison escapes in recent years, surpassing the 85 inmates who broke out of a prison in the norther...

Florida Guard: "I'm Not A Hero"
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS/AP) Mike Jones, the Security Guard who shot Clay Duke after he opened fire at school Board Members before fatally shooting himself, told reporters Thursday that he is no hero. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting "I'm not a hero, folks. I've just done my job," Jones said at a a Press Conference. Jones was not in the room when Duke interrupted the meeting and painted a "V" inside a circle on the wall. He said he received a call on his cell phone that there was an armed man...

US boxer to face battery charge
US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has been briefly arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Security Guard outside his home. Mr Mayweather, 33, was detained at a casino in the Las Vegas area and held at the Clark County jail, police said. He was later released without bail. He is due to appear in court on Monday charged with battery, officials say. The charge alleges he poked a Security Guard in the face during a row over Parking Tickets on 15 November. He faces six months in Prison and a $1,000 (£645...

Vegas judge orders Floyd Mayweather's arrest
A Las Vegas judge has issued an outstanding Arrest Warrant for boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on a Misdemeanor battery complaint alleging he poked a Security Guard in the face several times. Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassel said Thursday that the warrant issued Dec. 8 requires Mayweather to turn himself in or face arrest at any time. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Tony Abbatangelo signed the Arrest Warrant for Mayweather after a Dec. 7 hearing, then immediately recalled it. It was reinstated aft...

Security Guard Shot Dead In Atlanta
(NewsCore) - A Security Guard for a towing company in Atlanta was shot and killed early Saturday morning in what police said was a targeted attack, WSB-TV reported. The unarmed Security Guard was on duty in his guard shack when an SUV pulled up around 3:30 am local time Saturday. A person exited the vehicle with an Assault Rifle and shot the guard at least nine times, Atlanta police spokesman Keith Meadows said. The guard had several gunshot wounds to his torso and one to his arm. He was taken t...

'I'm Not A Hero,' Says Guard Who Stopped Gunman At School Board Meeting
What is this? That's what Mike Jones, the Security Guard who brought down gunman Clay Duke during Tuesday's School Board meeting in Panama City, Fla., as Duke was firing away at school officials, just told reporters. His words and humility say it all. The Panama City News Herald has much more about the dramatic incident here. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comme...

School security guard: 'I'm not a hero, folks'
Next story in Crime & courts Okla. set to execute inmate with animal drug In this image taken from video and released by WJHG-TV, Clay A. Duke points a hand gun at Bay City School Board members and staff on Tuesday....

Client Number Nine: Doesnt That Florida School Board Shooting Mean That We Should Have More Gun Control?
Well, I predicted it yesterday, didn’t I?  Here’s the video. Of course, the answer is no.  The fact is this guy was not supposed to have a gun in the first place.  He was a convicted felon.  The synopsis of that previous crime was this: In October 1999, Duke threatened to kill a Florida woman, and when she attempted to flee, he used a Handgun to “shoot out the Victim’s rear tire of the vehicle that she was operating.” Duke, wearing a bulletproof ...

Security Guard Who Stopped Gunman At Florida Schoolboard Meeting Tells Story To Fox News Shep Smith (Video)
Mike Jones, a Security Guard says he was supposed to be off all week on Vacation but he was asked to stay a couple days because of the Bad Weather. He says it was troubling taking the life of another and afterwards sought help from his pastor. He hasn't watched any of the video of the shooting or read any of the papers ...

Activists stage new tax protests
Should companies offer to pay more tax? Protesters against tax avoidance have staged demonstrations at shops across the UK on what is traditionally the busiest shopping weekend of the year. UK Uncut said it held 55 Protests in cities including London, Edinburgh and Manchester against the Arcadia Group, Boots, Vodafone and Barclays. Arcadia Group's flagship Topshop and BHS shops in Oxford Street were hit. The wife of Sir Philip Green, the firm's boss, has been criticised for living in ...

Mayweather arrested on battery charges
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. UPI/Roger Williams LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Las Vegas police say boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge resulting from an altercation over a parking citation at a Strip casino. The Thursday arrest and charge stem from allegations he repeatedly poked a Southern Highlands casino security...

Weather Anchor's Fake Police Report Shocks Co-Workers
When it was revealed that WABC 7 weather anchor Heidi Jones was charged with filing a false Police Report, after making up a story about being attacked and nearly raped by a Hispanic man in Central Park, her coworkers, like the public, found out by reading it in the Post. One "fuming" WABC Staffer said, "It was an outrageous lie... All this trust we had is shattered. We're like a family. We feel betrayed." The source said it was "common knowledge" that Jones had allegedly been attacked "To th...

Shot-up prop car causes brief Philadelphia scare
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police officers in downtown Philadelphia who came across a shot-up car with exposed wiring inside were about to the call the Bomb Squad when they found out it was a movie prop. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports police stopped Friday morning in the Old City section when they saw the car riddled with bullet holes and side windows shot out. They also saw wires running from the trunk into the dashboard. The officers were ready to close the street and call the Bomb Squad whe...

Suicide bombers kill 4 in northern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says four Suicide Bombers have attacked an army recruitment center in northern Afghanistan and killed at least four members of the security forces there. Kunduz province Deputy Gov. Amdullah Danishi says the attackers stormed the recruitment center Sunday morning and at least one of them was able to detonate his explosives. The blast shattered windows in nearby homes. He says the Victims may be Soldiers or police guarding the center. He says thr...

Mayweather jailed, freed in Las Vegas battery case
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. spent a night in a Las Vegas jail before his release Friday on a Misdemeanor battery warrant stemming from an allegation that the boxer poked a Security Guard in the face last month outside his home. “This is a misdemeanor,” attorney Richard Wright told The Associated Press. He noted that police usually write a ticket for a misdemeanor, or issue a court summons at the jail....

Fla. school board gunman dead by end of 911 call
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A school official calmly talked a Florida 911 operator through a gunman holding school Board Members hostage, exchanging fire with a Security Guard and then taking his own life. Nancy Boyd, assistant superintendent of Bay County schools, had fled the meeting room where the ordeal unfolded Tuesday to call authorities. Her roughly six-minute call was released Wednesday. Boyd described what she saw on a video feed of the meeting room, as Clay Duke fired at several boa...

Archbishop Wenski responds
Last Friday, December 10th, Human Rights Day, a group of Cuban Catholics attempted to visit Miami's Archbishop Thomas Wenski to ask him to intercede with Cardinal Ortega in Cuba. Their intention was to deliver a letter, which pleaded that the Church in Cuba do something to protect Reina Luisa Tamayo against the constant brutal attacks the Cuban Dictatorship has been committing against her and her family for the past few months. The group was turned away from the Archdiocese in Miami by security ...

Fla. Shooting Hero: I Was Just Doing My Job
Like this Story? Share it: Mike Jones is the Security Guard who stopped gunman Clay Duke in his tracks at a School Board meeting in Florida. He said was just doing his job when he put himself in the line of fire. As Mark Strassmann reports, the man who saved so many lives wasn't even supposed to be at work that day. Katie Couric speaks with Mike Jones, the Security Guard who wounded the Panama City gunman who was threatening School District Board Members. Katie Couric interviews Florida school b...

Mexican drug cartels find youths to be easy prey
Reporting from Jiutepec, Mexico, and Mexico City — The curly-haired suspect in the sweatshirt faced the flash of news cameras, looking impossibly small. "When did you start to kill?" he was asked. "How much did you earn?" "How many did you execute?" He said he began killing at age 11. A Drug Cartel paid him $200 a week. He'd killed four people. Get dispatches from Times correspondents around the globe delivered to your inbox with our daily World newsletter. Sign up » "How?" came ...

Tax protests spread across Britain
Security Guards remove UK Uncut Protesters from Top Shop in Central London earlier this month. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Protesters against Corporate Tax avoidance plan to target Vodafone and Top Shop outlets in more than 50 towns and cities around Britain tomorrow in the biggest day of action by the UK Uncut group so far. The action, on traditionally the busiest pre-Christmas high street shopping day, will also be aimed at other stores - but the main focus will be Vodafone and o...

Bringing Benazir Bhutto's story to film
On December 27, the world will observe the third anniversary of the Assassination of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim country. The story of Benazir's life includes hijackings, Corruption allegations, unsolved murders, and countless conspiracies. In deciding to translate her life to film, we believed that a fair, even-handed appraisal of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan would provoke the ire of both her critics as well as her supporters. We were rig...

A troubling story about Al Sharpton.
Slate continues its short features on the 2004 Presidential Candidates. Previous series covered the Candidates' biographies, buzzwords, agendas, worldviews, and claims to fame. This series assesses the story that supposedly shows each candidate at his worst. Here's the one told by critics of Al Sharpton—and what they leave out. Charge: In 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley went missing and was found four days later covered in dog feces and with Racial Slurs written on her ...

Joe Scarborough, Bob Riley, and the Rising GOP Body Count
Scarborough proceeded to allege that Moulitsas had, on several occasions, suggested he is a murderer. Moulitsas replied that he had done nothing of the sort, but had pointed out the media's tendency to tread carefully on sensitive stories about Republicans while providing blanket coverage on similar stories involving Democrats. As an example, Moulitsas cited the wall-to-wall treatment of the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy story. According to a post from Moulitsas, Scarborough became so unhinged that...

Boxer Floyd Mayweather arrested in connection with assault allegation
Boxer Floyd Mayweather was arrested at a Las Vegas casino on a Misdemeanor battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a Security Guard at his housing complex, a police official said Friday. Mayweather was arrested just before midnight on Thursday and is currently being held at the Clark County Detention Center, said police spokeswoman Barbara Morgan. He is expected to appear in court on Monday....