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Man Cleared Of Ricin Involvement Says He Feels ‘Vindicated’
TUPELO, Miss., (UPI) – A celebrity impersonator once accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to the White House said he feels “vindicated” after his release from a Mississippi jail. Authorities dropped charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, of Tupelo, Miss., saying they found no evidence he was behind the mailing of the poison to President Obama, […]
Petraeus Named Visiting Professor At NYC Honors College
NEW YORK, (UPI) – Former CIA Director David Petraeus was named visiting professor of public policy at Macauley Honors College at City University of New York, the school said. The highly decorated four-star general’s position will begin Aug. 1, a release from the college said Tuesday. “CUNY is profoundly honored to welcome Dr. Petraeus to […]
Edited, Three-Hour ‘Bible’ Getting A Theatrical Release
LOS ANGELES, (UPI) – Producer Mark Burnett says “The Bible,” his highly rated, 10-part American TV miniseries, will be pared down and released as a three-hour film in theaters. “We’re cutting a movie version right now, a three-hour version of Jesus and [we have] many, many offers from theaters globally,” executive producer Mark Burnett told […]
Boston Bombers May Have Planned NYC Attack
BOSTON, (UPI) — The carjacking victim of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has opened up the possibility the pair was planning a New York City attack, investigators said. The investigators told CBS news the cache of weapons Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly compiled hints at plans for another attack and the brothers may have planned […]
TSA Backpedals On Allowing Knives On Planes
LOS ANGELES, (UPI) — The Transportation Security Administration chief announced a delay in a policy change that would have allowed small folding knives onto U.S. flights this week. TSA chief John Pistole did not say whether he would reconsider lifting the knife ban at a later date, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Opponents of […]
U.S. Most-Wanted ‘Child Porn’ Teacher Arrested
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, (UPI) — A U.S. ex-schoolteacher and accused child pornographer who replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list was arrested in Nicaragua, police said. Eric Justin Toth, 31, who had taught third grade at Washington National Cathedral’s Beauvoir elementary school, was handed over to the FBI and U.S. Embassy officials […]
Dead Marathon Bombing Suspect Investigated In Triple Homicide
BOSTON, (UPI) — Boston area investigators said Monday they are looking into whether marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in a triple homicide. The 2011 killing involved a former roommate and two others and occurred around the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, ABC News reported. “We are looking at a possible […]
Dead Bombing Suspect Had Turned To Stricter Version Of Islam
BOSTON, (UPI) — A growing interest in Islam by Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother split the family, say friends and family of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Law enforcement officials want to know if the deceased suspect had turned to radical Islam, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Tsarnaev, 26, began studying Islam […]
Memorials Begin For Marathon Victims As Police Question Suspect
BOSTON, (UPI) — One week after the Boston Marathon bombings, a series of ceremonies began Monday to mourn those who died in the blasts and the aftermath, officials said. The memorials come as investigators began questioning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, one of two Chechen brothers suspecting of planting the bombs that exploded at the marathon finish […]
Court Rejects Cigarette Labeling Case
WASHINGTON, (UPI) — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to review a lower court ruling allowing graphic warnings on cigarette packages. Major tobacco companies had challenged a 2009 federal law and requirements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the sometimes gruesome visual warnings on cigarettes, taking up much of the surface of […]
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