Kenneth E. Melson's exit would be the biggest response yet to the uproar over an operation that allowed the sale of weapons to suspected agents of Mexican drug cartels.

Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in 2009. (Eric Gay / Associated Press / August 13,…

By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF

By EDWARD WONG

Published: June 22, 2011

BEIJING — The Chinese vice foreign minister warned the United States on Wednesday to stay out of the increasingly tense territorial…

A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected…

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, June 21, 9:34 AM

From Staff And Wire Reports The Spokesman-Review

An executive at the company that provides red-light cameras in Spokane has been suspended after a newspaper in Western Washington discovered he misrepresented himself as a local resident on its website and made comments to promote business in the area, a company spokesman said Friday.

Bill Kroske, the vice president of business development at American Traffic Solutions…

Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review

The decision by Superior Court Judge Jerome Leveque overturns a previous Municipal Court ruling that found no legal problem with the method used to electronically affix a Spokane police officer’s signature to a ticket in Arizona before mailing the $124 citation to the car’s…

-by developing patent to automatically disable iPhone cameras at concerts (and police or government abuse incidents?)

Friday, June 17, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

NaturalNews) As annoying as many are, the steady stream of garbled, shaky video clips of musical concert performances that get uploaded to YouTube every day could become a thing of the past, at least for Apple iPhone users. According to a recent report from Business Insider, Apple has filed a patent…

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A few residents increasingly frustrated by federal agents driving through their property near the U.S.-Canada border chained, and in some cases, locked their gates Thursday, June 16, to stop the vehicles from coming on their land.

Real estate agent Dennis Hill, who is an advocate for the residents, said that in addition to…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds.

In fact, the steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite, has tested stronger and more shock-absorbing than the most common titanium alloys used by industry.

Now the entrepreneur is working with researchers at Ohio State University to better understand the science behind the…

Private sector down 300k jobs as public employment remains stable

By Don Carrington

June 13, 2011

CJ Photo by Don Carrington

Gov. Bev Perdue, using her veto stamp Sunday to reject the General Assembly's 2011-12…

WASHINGTON — The US government is financing the development of "shadow" Internet systems to enable dissidents abroad to get around government censors, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The newspaper said the covert effort also includes attempts to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries.

The operation involves a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of…

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Janet Napolitano Visits NYU Law School to Discuss Need For Citizen Spies (Video)

First posted: Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:05:10 EDT PM Blurred images on the Internet could become much more common in Tennessee.…

By AL BAKER

Published: June 9, 2011

He had never met the young girl, recognizing her only through a 15-minute video he had downloaded that showed her being sexually abused by a man. Her circumstances were not familiar to him; he knew her only as “Vicky,” the self-titled subject of a series of videos popular…

Young attorney pleads not guilty to the charges

A young…

By PETER SVENSSON

NEW YORK —

After pressure from four U.S. senators, Apple Inc. has said it will start rejecting iPhone applications that tip drivers off about police checkpoints for drunken driving.

Apple updated its app developer guidelines Wednesday to exclude such apps. On Thursday, some DUI apps were still…