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LOS ANGELES — Two people who claimed to be taking a handcuffed prisoner to Hawaii for a court hearing were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after one was found to be carrying a gun without a permit, authorities said. A man and woman were arrested for investigation of impersonating peace officers after they entered a security screening area at Terminal Three on Friday morning, Los Angeles Airport Police spokeswoman Belinda Nettles said Saturday. The couple, who were wearing plainclothes, claimed to be law enforcement officers. The woman said she was carrying a firearm, and both claimed they had written...

Joseph Subic was booked on two counts of insurance fraud – false application and presenting false claim The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) completed their investigation of former White Springs Police Chief Joseph Subic and issued two warrants for his arrest on Monday, Feb. 26, according to FDLE Public Information Officer Phil Kiracofe. That evening Subic surrendered himself to the Hamilton County Jail, after investigators notified his legal counsel of the warrants, Kiracofe said. Subic was booked on two counts of insurance fraud – false application and presenting false claim, according to Kiracofe. Both charges are third-degree felonies. The...

Just said on local news. He is the retiring Police Chief of White Springs.

Protest the NYU Republican's Immigrant Bashing Event Because no one is illegal The NYU Republican club has decided to hold a racist and disgusting event in which they will stand outside the Silver Building and attempt to "find illegal immigrants in the crowd." (link to their event: http://nyu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2245140328) As active members of society who happen to be NYU students, we need to show that this type of racist action is completely unacceptable. Let's not be lazy; instead, let's be just as organized as they are and bring out as many protesters as possible. Bring banners, voice boxes, picket signs. Possible...

GENEVA (AP) - A United Nations anti-racism panel has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism. "To date, approximately 120 places have been declared as holy sites, all of which are Jewish," the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said in its list of questions, written before the recent furor over the construction project. Israel's government has also been asked to explain if it discriminates between Jewish citizens and what it calls its "Arab sector" in how it provides housing, education, public...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence. Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq. U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons and political influence." A...

TORONTO (AP) - The prime minister apologized Friday to a Syrian-born Canadian and said he would be compensated $8.9 million for Ottawa's role in his deportation by U.S. authorities to Damascus, where he was tortured and imprisoned for nearly a year. He was exonerated in September after a two-year public inquiry led by Associate Chief Justice of Ontario Dennis O'Connor. It found that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wrongly labeled Arar as an Islamic fundamentalist and passed misleading and inaccurate information to U.S. authorities, which very likely led to Arar's arrest and deportation. The U.S. government insists it has reasons...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread crusts to feed birds and seldom complained to his captors, except when he had legitimate gripes. Ellis, 56, an operating room nurse in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, said he was ordered to do whatever was needed to keep Saddam alive. "That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy, so they could kill him at a later date," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a story published Sunday. Saddam was executed Saturday. When Ellis told...

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Seventeen members of a Marine Corps Reserve unit from Jacksonville are under investigation for misconduct. The Marines under investigation are assigned to Bravo Company, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion. The unit spent spent eight months in the Al Anbar Province in Iraq. The Marine Corps says the battalion provided counterinsurgency operations support and protected key infrastructures. The unit returned to the First Coast Sunday, except for those members who are under investigation. They were ordered to remain at Camp Lejeune for further questioning.

LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) - A convicted child murderer who was paroled in March faces murder charges in the death of a 16-year-old girl, whose body was found the day after the two left a restaurant where they worked, a prosecutor said Thursday. Rouse was arrested and held without bond. Sheriff's Detective Tom Wallace testified at a probable cause hearing Thursday that Rouse admitted strangling Wagner and then stabbing her. Rouse was released from prison in March after serving more than 26 years for murdering a 5-year-old Kansas boy in 1979. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of...

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- An Oakleaf Plantation family is recovering after being terrorized by a man who drove his pickup truck through his neighbor's front door, pulled a gun and threatened to kill the parents and two children, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office. According to the arrest report, Ali Jaber-Ansari drove his 2006 Honda truck through the door of the house on Chestwood Chase Drive at about 7 p.m. Friday, entered the house with a 9 mm handgun and told the homeowners to gather the family because he was going to kill them all. "The suspect rammed his...

Two people caught trespassing at Newark Liberty International Airport last week had entered the secure zone alongside the airfield by lifting a chain-link fence and wiggling under it, authorities acknowledged yesterday. When the two, described as a homeless man and woman wanted for parole violations in Georgia, were discovered on Thursday morning, they told police they had been there since Tuesday night, sheltering under a roadway overpass within a few hundred feet of parked aircraft near Terminal C. Initially, officials reported that the pair had tried to walk through a construction zone off-limits to the public. Yesterday, after being contacted...

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - After hours of digging in the blistering heat, Salam Daher emerged from the wreckage with the body of a 9-month-old baby, a blue pacifier still pinned to its nightshirt. Daher, a member of the civil defense for 20 years, has been photographed with bodies of the dead in two wars now - first in 1996 and most recently with the baby on July 30 -- both times after Israeli attacks in the village of Qana six miles southeast of the city. For that reason, some Web sites have labeled him the "Green Helmet," and accused him...

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - The mother of a West Bank man who invited a 16-year-old American to the Mideast to get married says she is distraught that the teenager has returned home and hopes to bring the couple together. Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site. Lester had boarded a flight to Israel last week after slipping out of her mother's house in Gilford, Mich. But Sana Jinzawi said by telephone from her West Bank home in...

A police officer was critically injured in a shooting at the Cleveland airport Thursday morning after he confronted a man at a ticket counter, officials said. Several shots rang out as the two struggled, and both the officer and the man he had confronted were taken to hospitals, said Fred Szabo, director of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. No one else was injured. Szabo wasn't sure if the man was armed before the confrontation or if he had grabbed the officer's gun. The shooting, shortly after 10 a.m., was in an area before security check points. The airport remained open. "We...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times acknowledged in Saturday's editions that it incorrectly identified an Iraqi man in a front-page story as the hooded figure shown in a photograph from Abu Ghraib prison that became an icon of abuse by American captors. After the original story appeared March 11, the online magazine Salon.com challenged the man's identity, based on an examination of 280 Abu Ghraib pictures it had been studying for weeks and an interview with an official from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command. The Times said it was investigating the matter. The Times said Qaissi and his...

NEW YORK - Authorities at New York's La Guardia airport have evacuated a terminal and halted outbound flights after a security alert over a passenger's shoes, they said Friday. "The decision was taken to remove passengers from the terminal out of an abundance of caution," said Yolande Clark, a spokeswoman for the federal Transport Security Administration. The incident occurred shortly before 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) at the Delta Airlines terminal. According to Clark, a male passenger who was selected for secondary screening set off an alarm when his shoes were passed through a detector that checks for explosives. "The passenger...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings, which contain the names of detainees in custody and those who have been held and later released. Previously released documents have had identities and other details...

MIAMI - A coalition of Florida farmworkers has sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the government's refusal to help undocumented farmworkers affected by hurricanes with housing and other assistance, because of their immigration status. In the lawsuit, the Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations and the Farmworker Association of Florida said that federal law exempts short-term non-cash emergency disaster relief from restrictions based on immigration status. Emergency aid from the government would have mitigated the disastrous effect of the storms, including Hurricane Wilma, on farmworker communities, according to the lawsuit, which asked the court to review FEMA's actions in withholding...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials - including the prime minister - and the U.S. embassy were tapped for nearly a year beginning in the weeks before the 2004 Olympic games, the government said Thursday. It was not known who was responsible for the taps, which numbered about 100 and included Greek Prime Minister Costas Caramanlis and his wife, and the ministers of foreign affairs, defense, public order and justice. Most of Greece's top military and police officers were also targeted, as were foreign ministry officials and a U.S. embassy number. Also...