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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Wisconsin businessman was detained when he tried to go through airport security with a message scrawled on his plastic bag of toiletries. The message, "Kip Hawley is an Idiot," was on the plastic bag carried by Ryan Bird, whose ire was aimed at the director of the Transportation Security Administration. Sheriff's deputies at the Milwaukee airport detained Bird for 25 minutes on Tuesday. Since then he's become something of an Internet celebrity among bloggers, with varying views of his action and the TSA.Bird, a senior executive for a manufacturing company who lives in Washington County, Wis.,...

An infuriated Denver woman has filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration after a security screener forced her 83-year-old mother to get out of her wheelchair and walk to a pre-flight screening area, despite doctor's orders not to stand and an orthopedic card saying she had a metal plate in her hip. The incident at Denver International Airport occurred eight days ago when Sally Moon, her sister and a Frontier Airlines employee were transporting Bernice "Bea" Bogart to a special security screening area. Moon's sister, who did not have concourse clearance and the Frontier employee were left behind as...