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BOSTON -- A Peabody woman says a cupcake she tried to take on a flight with her sparked a potential security threat this week. Rebecca Hains says she was going through security at the airport in Las Vegas when a TSA agent pulled her aside and said the cupcake frosting was “gel-like” enough to constitute a security risk. She said she was able to pass through Logan International Airport security with two cupcakes, but she was stopped on the way back when she tried to return with one of them.

Adding former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s name to Logan Airport is a dumb idea. In a June 19, 1964 plane crash, the senator almost lost his life. The senator’s nephew, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard. Rep. Lori Ehrlich, a Marblehead Democrat, filed legislation today that would rename the airport Logan-Kennedy International Airport. Everybody needs to slow down and take a breath. The Senate Institute at UMass might be nice, then a school here or there and maybe a hospital wing or cancer center, but let’s not overdo it and let’s be smart. Ted's...

A United Airlines flight from Munich to Washington has been diverted to Boston's Logan International Airport because a female passenger complained of flu symptoms, an airport official said. Flight 903, a 737 containing 245 passengers and 16 crew, has been isolated in the north cargo area of the airport, said airport spokesman Phil Orlandella. One patient was removed from the plane and was being taken to Masachusetts General Hospital, said Jennifer Mehigan, a spokeswoman for Boston Emergency Medical Services. The other passengers are expected to stay on board and continue to Washington after refueling, airport officials said. A United Airlines...

BOSTON — A flight from Munich, Germany to Washington has been diverted to Boston because a passenger complained of "flu-like symptoms." Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella said United flight 903 was being diverted to Boston early Friday afternoon after a 53-year-old female passenger told flight attendants about her symptoms.

A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage. Corporal Justin Reed, 22, of Jacksonville, N.C., was booked on US Airways Flight 877 to Charlotte, N.C. Reed had arrived on a flight from Las Vegas Sunday morning. TSA screeners called State Police at 7:10 a.m. after a screen discovered the following items in Reed’s checked baggage: a locked handgun box containing a semi-automatic handgun, a fully loaded gun magazine, several boxes of 9 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, three model rocket engines containing an...

A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage, State Police and Transportation Security Administration officials said.

US Marine arrested at Logan April 19, 2009 05:42 PM Email| Comments (0)| Text size – + John C. Drake, Globe Staff A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage, State Police and Transportation Security Administration officials said. .

In the same month that Logan International Airport hiked its parking rates by $1, Governor Deval Patrick is asking for another $2 parking "carbon fee" as part of his transportation overhaul filed this week. The carbon fee, described on page 137 of Patrick's 141-page bill, would that mean a 20- or 30-minute trip to pick up a relative at Logan could cost $6 in parking alone, not including tunnel tolls, which could rise to as much as $7 if legislators fail to pass Patrick's other proposal to raise the gas tax. Three hours in a Logan garage would cost $18;...

In the same month that Logan International Airport hiked its parking rates by $1, Governor Deval Patrick is asking for another $2 parking "carbon fee" as part of his transportation overhaul filed this week. The carbon fee, described on page 137 of Patrick's 141-page bill, would that mean a 20- or 30-minute trip to pick up a relative at Logan could cost $6 in parking alone, not including tunnel tolls, which could rise to as much as $7 if legislators fail to pass Patrick's other proposal to raise the gas tax. Three hours in a Logan garage would cost $18;...

WBZ) BOSTON 5 crew members of a U.S. Airways flight became ill on a flight to Boston Monday morning. The airline says the two pilots and three flight attendants were working on Flight 2022, a Star Alliance shuttle from Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. to Logan Airport when they got sick. The flight landed at Logan without incident. The crew was treated by emergency medical services at the gate. EMS told WBZ it took the five to Massachusetts General Hospital with symptoms similar to carbon monoxide poisoning. There were 81 passengers on the plane. None of them were ill. A...

"I have no idea what a real bomb looks like," writes a blogger at machinist.salon.com, "but I don't think it’s a plastic board with a 9-volt battery on it." 19 year old M.I.T. student, Star Simpson showed up at Logan International Airport Friday to pick up a friend. Such an event would not normally kick up an international news storm, but Simpson had not taken the general stupidity index into account; something we're apparently required to do now.She was wearing a black sweat shirt with a white plastic board attached. The board itself, known as a socket or bread-board, is...

http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=TopStories&referrer=welcome&id=20070922/46f49340_3ca6_1552620070922-1497302150 Lawyer: Fake Bomb Charge an Overreaction BOSTON - The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb. Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a hoax device. Her attorney described the charge as offbase and "almost paranoid," arguing at a court hearing that she did not act in a suspicious manner and had told an airport worker that the device was art.

(WBZ) BOSTON An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said. Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport. "She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day," Pare said at a news conference. "She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud...

(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning. State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing. Stay with wbztv.com and WBZ-TV for the latest on this developing story.

Airline manufacturer Boeing Co. (BA), major airlines and several airport operators sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday in a bid to question current and former agency employees in connection with negligence litigation over the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. In separate lawsuits, the airlines and others are challenging decisions by the FBI and the CIA that prevent them from conducting depositions of those employees. The airlines include AMR Corp.'s (AMR) American Airlines, UAL Corp.'s (UAUA) United Airlines, US Airways Group Inc. (LCC), Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and AirTran Holdings...

Boston may have been one of the targets in the alleged plot to blow up airplanes headed to the United States from Great Britain, according to published reports NewsCenter 5's Steve Lacey reported Friday that information out of London Friday is in sharp contradiction to what Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday about the plot. Several British newspapers are quoting U.S. officials saying the planes targeted by the terrorists were headed to New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston. British authorities said that the plan was to blow up planes in mid-flight using explosives smuggled in hand luggage. The newspapers...

BOSTON --Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday activated the National Guard to help with security at Logan International Airport for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, after a terror plot targeting U.S.-bound flights was foiled in London. The security alert was raised at Logan and airports around the nation early Thursday after officials in Great Britain disrupted a plan to blow up airplanes from England to the United States. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plot appeared to be engineered by al-Qaida, the terrorist group that hijacked two planes from Logan on Sept. 11, 2001,...

BOSTON -- A Rhode Island man who alleges his wedding ring was stolen while he was clearing security at Boston's Logan International Airport is suing the federal government. John Wright says he and his wife were taking a flight to Puerto Rico in July when he placed the $7,000 diamond and gold ring in a plastic tub along with his Rolex watch and wallet. Wright then placed the bin on the scanner conveyer belt as he and his wife passed through the metal detector. Wright says when he retrieved his belongings the ring was missing. Wright says he suspects one...

A man is suing the federal government, alleging his $7,000 wedding ring was stolen as he passed through a security checkpoint at Logan International Airport. John Wright, 51, says he and his wife were taking a flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in July when he placed the 1.53-carat diamond and gold ring in a plastic tub along with his Rolex watch and wallet. Wright, of Tiverton, R.I., then placed the bin on the scanner conveyer belt as he and his wife, Janet, passed through the metal detector. When he retrieved his belongings, Wright said, the ring was missing. "I...

"I had no aviation experience when I was appointed to head the Massachusetts Port Authority in September 1999. What I had were political connections, the right gender, and a governor's faith in my abilities. The learning curve was steep, but the allure of aviation quickly captured my imagination - until the events of September 11, 2001. This story is a recounting from Logan Airport, Boston's own ground zero, of the first hours and days following the new century's most searing moment. It is a sharing of my soul and a look into the soul of a city that felt sorrow...

Don't usually post vanities, but this Able Danger information has just jogged a memory of mine that has me spooked. My friend's daughter flew out of Logan on September 10th 2001, the evening before the World Trade Center Attacks. When we got together after the attacks she recounted that there had been unusal activity at that airporat that night. There seemed to be lots of police looking for something, she said. Also, she was on a project opening a new store and had a box cutter in her luggage. When she arrived home it was not there. She's a pretty...

Three people were detained, questioned and released on Tuesday morning after a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to Boston because of their suspicious activity, authorities said. Logan Airport Spokesman Phil Orlandella said Flight 934 landed in Boston at 2:52 a.m. Three people he described as Pakistani citizens were taken into custody and questioned. All three were later released and no charges were filed, said Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Boston. "The flight crew made an observation of their behavior which caused the flight to be diverted to Boston," she said. "It's all...

Cannot post directly - it's the USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-26-flight-diverted_x.htm

"Alitalia Flight From Milan To Boston Diverted to bangor"

BOSTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Friday arrested 14 illegal aliens working at Logan International Airport. They all worked for Hurley of America, a contract company that provides janitorial services for the airport. The workers had temporary badges that allowed them access to restricted areas. The arrests are the result of an ongoing investigation into illegal workers at the airport. Authorities said that that none of the workers appear to be connected to terrorism.

BOSTON -- A fire was discovered aboard a British Airways flight shortly after it landed at Logan International Airport on Monday night, and five firefighters were injured battling the blaze, officials said. The firefighters complained of burning in their throats and eyes, MassPort spokesman Phil Orlandella said.

Not everyone is happy that tighter airport security has managed to prevent a rerun of the 9/11 attacks. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Boston's Logan Airport, the very facility used by Osama bin Laden's suicide hijackers, claiming that its security measures led to the illegal detainment of one of its officials. In a press release issued last week, the left-wing group says that Logan's behavior pattern recognition program "effectively condones and encourages" racial and ethnic profiling and is therefore unconstitutional. The lawsuit claims that King Downing, the ACLU's national coordinator for racial profiling, alleges that he was...

For that matter, blame John Kerry and Ted Kennedy for 911 (Logan Airport). September 11th. Four planes. Two took off from Logan Airport. Logan is in Boston. Boston is in Massachusetts. There are two Senators from Massachusetts. Senator Ted Kennedy, 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C., and Senator John Kerry, 304 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C.. http://www.usatoday.com/news/gallery/2004/03-24-kerry/flash.htm Recent books, such as Flying Blind, point out the weaknesses in security at our Domestic and International Airports, thanks to political correctness. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy should know about political correctness. Logan Airport. Massachusetts. Two Senators. Massachusetts. 911. There is...

"After less than a year of campaigning, John Kerry has already given the American public a chilling preview of the misguided choices he would make in the unlikely event he is elected president."...."Two of the four planes that attacked our nation on September 11 took off from Logan Airport and 80 of Kerry’s constituents died. Yet Kerry, who held evidence in his hands of Logan’s vulnerabilities, has yet to explain his failure to take meaningful action – action that well may have prevented the horrors of that fateful day.".......... This one really is a follow-up on Joan Swirsky's investigative report...

Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List 11 minutes ago Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U.S. Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't let him on the plane. His name was on the list in error. After a flurry of phone...

Boston-AP -- Flights are back on schedule at Boston's Logan Airport, after an afternoon power outage. Problems with two electric substations knocked out power to the international terminal. The outage shut down security screening systems which process passengers and luggage. An airport spokesman says the Transportation Security Administration screened passengers and checked luggage by hand. Dozens of flights were delayed, fifteen of them international.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Airliners about to take off from Philadelphia and Boston were searched Wednesday after a caller reported "an item" on an American Airlines plane preparing to take off for Boston. Philadelphia International Airport officials evacuated 19 passengers from American Airlines Flight 4543 at about 6:30 a.m., airport spokesman Mark Pesce said. Pesce said the passengers were taken to be rescreened, while the plane was towed to a remote area and searched. Nothing was found, he said. Pesce said he couldn't comment on the possible nature of the item or origin of the call. Police said the call was...

New evidence about a meeting in Prague between September 11 plot leader Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence officer Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani has been uncovered, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein has uncovered Czech government visa records indicating al-Ani was posted to the Iraqi embassy in Prague between March 1999 and April 21, 2001, and was involved in handling Iraqi agents. A search of the Iraq Embassy in Prague after the fall of Baghdad to coalition forces revealed al-Ani had scheduled a meeting for April 8, 2001, with a Hamburg student, according to...

<p>Sen. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.</p>

<p>March 23, 2004 -- I am writing to respond to misleading statements made by Paul Sperry in his March 15 Opinion column, "The Warning Kerry Ignored." The column is wrong on the facts and in its assertions. In fact, Sen. John Kerry's office promptly forwarded Brian Sullivan's tape warning of security lapses at Boston's Logan Airport to the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General and contacted the General Accounting Office. Both of these federal offices have the authority and capacity to investigate security concerns.</p>

Bank of America Corp. on Monday said it will cut about 12,500 jobs over the next two years. About 30 percent of the cuts will come through attrition, the company said. The bank, which on April completed a multibillion-dollar acquisition of Fleet Boston Financial Corp., said job reductions will take place where processes and corporate staff functions overlap. The cuts will begin this month. The company said it began notifying employees on Monday. Information on how many jobs the company might cut in Arkansas was not available late Monday. Bank of America employs about 180,000 comanywide. Based in Charlotte, N.C.,...

Was it Kerry, not Bush, who was inattentive and negligent about terrorist threats in early 2001? Let's check the record. Here’s what the Bush administration was doing in May, 2001, based on suspicions of increased terrorist “chatter”: “Forcefully rebutting Clarke's testimony Wednesday to the 9/11 commission, Rice called reporters to her West Wing office and said that on July 5, 2001 -- two months before the terrorist attacks -- she personally ordered Clarke to alert domestic agencies that they needed to be on alert for the possibility of a terror strike.” “Rice said she did so because of a "threat...

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

BOSTON — The federal air marshals who travel undercover through Logan International Airport each day will become the first in the country to use Israeli-style behavior pattern recognition training to scan the crowd for suspicious activity, according to the leader of the Boston field office. An undisclosed number of Boston-based marshals have been trained by the state police unit at Logan, which launched the nation’s first such program in 2002 to identify potentially suspicious passengers for further questioning. “The responsibility of the federal air marshal doesn’t begin when the door of the aircraft closes,” said Jack Shea, the special agent...

<p>The arrest of a Sudanese passenger carrying bullets after a trans-Atlantic flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to London this week follows a series of breaches, and an airline security analyst suspects terrorists are testing the system.</p> <p>"It would be a mistake to brush this off," said Charles Slepian of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center. "We should be more concerned with their ability to blow up a plane than to hijack one."</p>

Thursday October 25 3:36 PM ET Head of Logan Airport Agency to Quit Photos AP Photo &nbsp; By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - The head of the agency that runs Logan Airport, the departure point for the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, is resigning, The Associated Press has learned. ``She's expected to resign today,'' a source close to Virginia Buckingham said on condition of anonymity. No formal announcement has been scheduled. ``I'm not going to comment,'' said James Borghesani, spokesman for acting Gov. Jane Swift, who was in Washington at a meeting of ...