BOISE, Idaho – Executives with a Boise-based company are poised to begin marketing a new type of ammunition specifically for law enforcement teams and designed to avoid causing serious or fatal injuries to their targets and bystanders. The technology was created at Integrity Ballistics LLC, a company that has spent more than 10 developing and […]
Student Receives Free Cocaine with Amazon Textbook Order
In my college years, I purchased used books. I would go to the bookstore and try to find the cleanest ones I could – ones without too much scribbling, highlighting or even a piece of gum. In one student’s case the unexpected (and unwanted) gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine. Sophia Stockton — a junior at […]
Would-Be Robber Uses Threat of Infection as His Weapon
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone surprises you. This incident sounds like an episode that could be written for one of my favorite dark comedy TV programs. “Give me the money or I’ll touch you” was essentially the threat. Police say Fred Parker, 41, tried to rob a western Pennsylvania gambling parlor by threatening […]
Wikileaks Spy Files Target Forensic Companies
In December, Wikileaks revealed what it has dubbed “the Spy Files,” a collection of 287 documents that include information about companies that provide different types of surveillance methods including cell phone forensics, spyware, and Wifi interceptions. “Over a year or longer, SSL certificates have been penetrated by various organized crime groups and intelligence agencies. The […]
Hezbollah Identifies Undercover CIA Officers
The militant group Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war. Hezbollah made the names public in a broadcast Friday night on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar. The station used animated videos simulating meetings purported to […]
