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(SNIP) Posing like a hip hop mogul when the holes in your pants are real is ultimately self-defeating. But leave the subject of self-destructive pretense for another time, let’s talk hoodies. His hoodie killed Trayvon Martin as surely as George Zimmerman did. Remember when my friend and colleague the estimable Juan Williams got fired from NPR for saying that Muslims formally garbed freaked him out at airports? Juan is among America's sharpest commentators. He wasn't justifying his reaction, he was copping to it. Maybe shock therapy or a semester of sensitivity training could change it, otherwise It is what it...

Counter Intelligence: Unabomber's Duds May Be for SaleUpdated 2:45 PM EDT, Wed, Jun 10, 2009 The Unabomber's signature sunglasses-and-hoodie getup could soon be yours. Ted Kaczynski is trying to thwart efforts to have the federal government auction off his belongings -- including his diaries, typewiters, a hatchet and his signature sunglasses and hoodie. The money generated from the sale of the items would go to four survivors of his mail bomb attacks who are owed $15 million from a civil suit.

An assault rifle, with close to a hundred rounds of ammunition, and other evidence were found in the trunk of a parolee's car. The startling discovery makes police believe they may have prevented a tragedy. An alert parole agent and city police just may have headed off a violent confrontation before it ever happened when they acted on their instincts and checked out the car of a former inmate when he came to check in with his parole agent, reported Fox 29’s Dave Schratwieser. When 29-year-old Alexander Rivera reported to his parole agent on Monday at 13th Street and Clearfield...