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A former Marine working as a bartender in Altoona, Pennsylvania, tackled an armed suspect Tuesday and foiled a robbery. Fox News reports that the incident occurred at Ajay’s Bar around 1:00 a.m. The first of two surveillance videos shows the former Marine calmly retrieving money from the cash register while the suspect has him at gunpoint. Seconds later, the former Marine is seen bum-rushing the suspect, driving the suspect to the floor, and wrestling for the gun:

The Justice Department is withholding documents demanded by this newspaper under terms of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In so doing, the department is asserting privileges that do not exist or do not apply. Ironic as it may sound, Justice seems to be breaking the law. The Washington Times' FOIA request asked for documents pertaining to the department's controversial decision to dismiss a civil complaint accusing the New Black Panther Party of intimidating Philadelphia voters on Election Day 2008. In response, the department said it would withhold 69 documents totaling 135 pages, including interdepartmental e-mails, drafts of court filings...

PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 (UPI) -- A Portland, Ore., WWII veteran helped chase off a gun-carrying robber with his cane, say police -- who nevertheless don't encourage the tactic. Art Iwasaki. 88, awoke from a nap Monday afternoon to find a masked man with a gun demanding money next to him. With help from his daughter, Stephanie Sakauye, 55, he managed to drive off the young robber and assist in a police search, the Portland Oregonian reported Wednesday.

Russia foils atomic smugglers By Will Stewart in Moscow Last Updated: 11:56pm GMT 02/01/2008 Russia has admitted that customs officials thwarted more than 120 attempts to smuggle "highly radioactive" material out of the country last year. The disclosure is likely to fuel concern about how many illegal exports were not halted. It will also lead to new fears that Moscow has failed to stop material becoming available on the black market that could be used by terrorists to make radioactive "dirty" bombs. A further 722 cases of illegal importing of highly radio-active material into Russia were detected - possible evidence...

PALMDALE - The featureless black mask hid his face, but everyone in the crowd knew exactly how he felt. Iain Carson threw his arms toward the ceiling, letting a joyous shout erupt from inside. With a 15-9 victory over Eugene Park, Carson earned himself a brand new epee - the first place prize at the Duel at the Oasis fencing tournament at Oasis Park Recreational Center in Palmdale on Saturday. "(That was) the best I've done," Carson said. Carson was the top seed after pool competition, and didn't lose a single bout in the tournament. The only bout Park lost...

Switzerland 'foils attack on Israeli airliner' (Filed: 08/06/2006) Swiss intelligence agents have foiled a planned attack on an Israeli airliner, according to Swiss authorities. Seven people of North African origin are being held on suspicion of plotting to attack a jet belonging to El Al, the national airline of Israel. The Swiss Attorney General's office gave no further details of the alleged plot, but said that Spanish and French police had been involved in a Europe-wide investigation into connected terror groups. "The inquiry has ... made it possible to show that this cell had very seriously envisaged committing an attack...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 2005 – Task Force Band of Brothers soldiers disrupted two terrorist bombing operations yesterday in Baqubah, a city about 20 miles north of Baghdad, killing two terrorists and detaining another at a new checkpoint, U.S. military officials in Baghdad reported. Just before noon, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team stopped a suspicious car and detained the driver after discovering the vehicle was being prepared as a car bomb. An explosives ordnance disposal team found no explosives, but the car was laced with wiring used to detonate explosives. Later, soldiers fired at a second...

SHAWNEE, Kan. - A would-be carjacker got away with nothing more than the keys Monday after he apparently was thwarted by the vehicle's manual transmission. The thief was armed with a shotgun when he ordered a 26-year-old man out of his Chevrolet Camaro in a suburban Kansas City parking lot. The driver complied, but when the robber got into the car he was unable to manage the stick shift. The robber fled the scene in a four-door car that someone else was driving. Police are investigating whether the attempted theft is linked to four similar robberies in Johnson County during...

Italy 'foils Iraq suicide plot' Italy is often used as a logistical base Italian police say they have arrested an Algerian imam and four Tunisians suspected of planning suicide attacks against Western targets in Iraq. The men were seized in a series of raids in Florence and the province of Liguria - which were still ongoing. The raids were part of an investigation into the Islamic militant group, Ansar al-Islam, police said. They say Islamic terrorist groups have used Italy as a logistical base, says the BBC's Frances Kennedy in Rome. Cell 'destroyed'The probe began in Genoa two years ago...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen killed a U.S. civilian contractor and injured another north of Baghdad, while an Apache helicopter killed seven people suspected of preparing a rocket attack on a U.S. base near Tikrit, the military said Friday. Unrelenting violence in Iraq has pushed Washington to discuss ways of speeding up the transfer of power to an Iraqi-led government. A member of Iraq's Governing Council said Friday that the group will study Washington's proposals for a speedier transfer of power but won't necessarily agree with the details. "For our part, we have our own ideas," said Mahmoud Othman, a...

LITTLE ROCK (Reuters) - Would-be bank robber Julius Kearney just couldn't get any respect, police said on Wednesday. They said that when he tried to rob a bank in the central Arkansas town of Pine Bluff on Monday, one teller started laughing and told him the bank was fresh out of cash, and another teller made fun of him. Both tellers also doubted that he had a gun in his pocket as he claimed. Police were told that Kearney, 23, entered a bank and told a teller to stuff a bag full of money. His other hand was thrust in...