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(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.

Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we learned from our mistakes? The beleaguered Bush administration has had a dreadful couple of years. Now, for the first time in recent memory, a silk purse has fallen into the president’s lap in the form of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blundering stroll down “the road to Damascus,� also known as “Appeasement Avenue.� So what happens? Some influential administration supporters suggest turning it into the sow’s ear of all time: An indictment against Pelosi under the Logan Act. Here’s hoping President Bush not only turns a deaf ear to this advice but sees...

The visit to the Middle East, and to Syria in particular, by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has provoked mixed reactions in the Arab world. Some wrote that Pelosi's visit challenged the foreign policy of the Bush administration, and that it had improved the U.S.'s image in the Arab and Muslim world. Others took a more skeptical approach, denying that the visit had made any major change. Still others were highly critical, and accused Pelosi of damaging the cause of democracy in Syria. Syrian Journalist: Pelosi Has Opened the Door to a Syria-U.S. Dialogue Pelosi's visit was well received in...

“I come back thinking, all right, we will get through their tantrum,” Ms. Pelosi said, in a reference to the administration, “but the fact is, we accomplished what we set out to do. I think we improved the understanding among the different parties.”

BOSTON (AP) — A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday. Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., was to appear in federal court later Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew after disrupting United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members, landed safely with the escort of...

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,...

SAMI AL-ARIAN ADMITS CONSPIRACY IN PLEA AGREEMENT " There is no conspiracy to support terrorism ."  - Ahmed Bedier, spokesman for Tampa chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations From what I’ve been able to gather, there seems to be enough evidence to prove a web of conspiracy . Let’s have a look and see if that’s true! American Muslim Council (AMC)1. Former Spokesman: Faisal Gill.2. Founder: Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi.3. Former Director: Erik Vickers 1. Faisal Gill Former spokesman for the American Muslim Council (AMC) Former director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute (Islamic Institute) in Washington, D.C.,...

Who is tampering with the FAA witnessess in the Zacarias Mousaoui trial, and why? "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." "Sullivan says he had a copy of the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry's office." "It turns out the person who delivered it was a senior FAA agent in Washington who's now with the Transportation Security Administration." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37642 "[Carla] Martin developed a reputation for tenaciousness both at the TSA and, before that,...

Museum glories in pair's gift By Kyle MacMillan Denver Post Fine Arts Critic Vicki and Kent Logan of Vail have made a bequest of their extensive collection to the Denver Art Museum, along with their Vail home and gallery and endowments in the millions to support exhibitions, acquisitions and a curator. Among artists represented is Andy Warhol, whose work hangs behind them. (Special / Peter M. Fredin) More than $30 million in contemporary artworks by such marquee names as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman. Fifteen million dollars in cash. A house and gallery in Vail. With...

SHOW ME THE MONEYTwo indicators of just where Republicans money folk are placing their bets right now: Sen. John McCain spent time last week in Florida, Miami specifically, meeting with mostly Hispanic business groups. This round of meetings follows in the wake of a lunch McCain had eight weeks ago with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. That the President's brother publicly disclosed the lunch meeting with McCain and close Bush adviser, now-McCain consultant Mark McKinnon, underscores just how far McCain has come in gaining the support of the tight-knit Bush clan. Another sign: McCain is being given access to some of...

sends them out of state BOSTON -- Ever had a spiffy lighter or all-in-one pocket knife snatched by security screeners at Logan International Airport? If so, chances are it was donated to a government office in another state and sold for a modest profit. After the Sept. 11 hijackings led federal officials to ban airplane passengers from carrying a host of sharp objects, airport security hawks have allowed officials from other states who take the surrendered items away from Logan to resell them. Items from Logan previously were donated to Kentucky, but for the past six months have been passed...

Cars prices have accelerated steadily for the last decade, thanks to an increasing reliance on technology and ever-more luxurious interiors. Even a compact car can easily cost more than $20,000. Shifting into reverse, French auto maker Renault decided in 1998 to design a modern car with state-of-the-art safety features costing only 5,000 euros [$6,000]. Renault's strategy was to create a car for people in emerging markets who have never owned an automobile -- some 80% of the world's population. But when the $6,000 Logan was unveiled last fall, it wowed West Europeans, too. This June, the much-in-demand Logan, which sells...

As America honors its fallen military heroes this Memorial Day, Republicans can be proud that the holiday was established by one of their own, Senator John Logan (R-IL). Logan Circle in Washington, DC and Logan Square in Chicago were named after him. As head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an early veterans organization, John Logan proclaimed that on May 30, 1868 Americans should honor the soldiers and sailors who died in the Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. Five thousand people came to Arlington National Cemetery for the first Memorial Day ceremony. The principal speaker that...

PARIS (AP) - An Air France flight from Paris to Boston was being diverted to Maine on Thursday because U.S. authorities wanted to check a passenger, officials said. Flight 332 was diverted because a passenger had the same name as someone on the U.S. government's no-fly list, said Ann Davis, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Boston. The plane was carrying 169 passengers, according to Air France. Air France and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration were in contact with the flight, ``and there are no reports of unusual activity on board,'' Davis said. Flight 332 had been scheduled to...

Olympia – The Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) today called on King County Executive Ron Sims to fire elections supervisor Dean Logan immediately. “In light of the information contained in Mr. Logan’s deposition in the election challenge court case, Sims should fire Logan immediately,” Bob Williams, President of EFF said. “It is time for somebody in King County to start following the law or paying a price for not doing so. “Sims needs to clean up his shop, change the culture of hiding problems and call for a criminal investigation,” Williams said. “Logan is copping out when he says he didn’t...

Public Non-disclosure Now that King County Elections has confirmed that the reconciliation reports it gave to the canvassing board were fake, it's time to press on to get the rest of the absentee ballot documentation that should explain the discrepancy of nearly 900 more absentee ballots than identified absentee voters. (hint: I predict that the explanation will be that a significant number of invalid ballots were commingled with the valid ballots and counted). I've been asking for these documents for weeks. King County has not satisfied all of my public records request in a timely fashion. Today I retained counsel,...

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.

Guest columnist King County voters in good hands By Corky Mattingly Special to The Times I've been particularly troubled by one recurring comment regarding the gubernatorial recount in King County. It pertains to county Elections Director Dean Logan's professionalism and integrity. There also have been suggestions that Logan's decisions are based on partisan politics and are without justification or regard to Washington state law. As president of the Washington State Association of County Auditors, I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. All 39 counties conducted the recount process according to the rules currently in place, which are...

Rossi went from 15 up on Gregoire 3/4 of the way thru the count, to loosing 59 votes to her in King County, and all this after all the other counties reported. At the helm during this amazing run for Gregoire ... Dean Logan. Sometime in the 23rd Century... the survivors of war (elections), overpopulation (at the KC Election Offices) and pollution (of the legitimate vote) are living in a great domed city (well hey, we blew up our dome a few years back ... but anyways), sealed away from the forgotten world outside (WTF ... serious vote issues here...

Somewhere, in the arms of a starry winter night, a little 9-year-old boy is resting. His mind is filled with the new and wonderful, led on to things he has always wanted to see, things that were always just beyond the fence. But behind him, just on the other side of the adventure, people are searching, praying, looking for him. For out in the wonderment, beneath the stars, Logan Mitcheltree is missing. The runners and the dreamers never understand what it is that makes us fear so for them; they only know that the world is a marvelous, moving...

Up to 162 ballots missing By Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporter King County election officials will enter a locked "cage" in a warehouse this morning to look for a plastic mail tray they believe contains up to 162 misplaced absentee ballots. Elections Director Dean Logan said the ballots, like 573 other ballots that were improperly rejected, were set aside because workers couldn't find voter signatures that corresponded to them. But unlike the other ballots, these apparently were left behind and forgotten. The original 573 votes were mistakenly identified as having mismatched signatures and then disqualified. If the ballots are...

The ACLU people are at it again. Instead of bleating about some Ten Commandments poster in Indiana, now they're hot about airport safety. In a startling development, they oppose it. Flying, per se, doesn't usually bother me. It's the possibility of being threatened with box-cutters by insane Islamist savages that fuels my airport woes. My trepidation, insignificant as it may be, is not likely to cease for many years to come. (If they'll change, I'll change.) But if Kerry had been elected, it would be worse. Kerry would have been Clinton all over again--and the Clinton counterterrorism efforts led to...

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.

TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Member of the board of directors of Renault-Pars Company, Seyyed Hossein Amiri said the French Renault Company has accepted Iran’s conditions for manufacturing the new Renault model known as L90. He told that Iran’s proposed conditions include a common platform, cheap price, domestic investment, producing automobiles according to latest world standards, selling the automobile in the world market and transfer of technology. Turning to the initiation of such cooperation, he said Iran’s Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) drew up the specified conditions and dispatched relevant copies to several global automobile companies of high reputation along with...

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>

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...

<p>This is the room in which God’s miracle of a little baby boy named Logan was performed.</p> <p>This is the room where thousands of people joined in prayer daily to our Heavenly Father asking Him to let us keep this precious little baby.</p> <p>This room has seen many tears in the bad times when we were begging God to let him survive, and it’s seen much laughter in those good times when he was making progress.</p> <p>This is the room where people from all over the world came to know Logan and became familiar with his struggle to live.</p>

Did anyone else just see Frontline on PBS. The Taking of Logan Marr? I haven't screamed at the television in a long time but that did it. To make a long story short. Maine stole Logan from her mother because a neighbor saw her drop off Logan at her mothers house who they deemed a bad influence. After many months she got Logan back if she agreed to sever ties with her mother. Then she found her father in Florida. Maine again found out and sent a case worker to steal Logan and her new sister. These people are demonic...

Just broke on CNN......this is a civilian translator!

<p>Camera technology designed to spot potential terrorists by their facial characteristics at airports failed its first major test, a report from the airport that tested the technology shows.</p> <p>Last year, two separate face-recognition systems at Boston's Logan Airport failed 96 times to detect volunteers who played potential terrorists as they passed security checkpoints during a three-month test period, the airport's analysis says. The systems correctly detected them 153 times.</p>

If you will, please remember this tiny baby in your prayers. He’s the grandson of a very dear friend of mine. Logan was born on July 25. His due date was in October, making his mommy 26 weeks along, being born 3 months and 3 days early. Logan was 1 lb 9.4 oz when he was born and is now weighing, as of this morning, 1 lb. 8.3 oz. The little guy is now 12-1/2” long. He’s a real trooper and is fighting with all his little body can fight with. His Grandma said that he’s starting to recognize his...

<p>Submachine guns, long a common sight in many European airports, made their debut yesterday at Logan Airport, which has spent more than 11/2 years bolstering its security and image after becoming the takeoff point for two of the planes hijacked by terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>

Troopers training to carry submachine guns at Logan By Associated Press, 5/1/2003 10:04 BOSTON (AP) A specially trained state police unit will begin patrolling Logan International Airport with submachine guns next month, making the airport the first in the country to use such heavy weaponry. The Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees Logan, has purchased 30 of the guns for $2,500 each. The MP-5's have 30-round clips and a two-round burst capacity, which allows two shots to be fired automatically with one push of the trigger. Massport Chief Executive Officer Craig Coy said the new weaponry, which will be deployed in...

BOSTON, Feb 04, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- United Airlines said Tuesday that a box cutter found by a passenger on an airplane at Logan Airport was mistakenly left there by a mechanic in Denver. A first-class passenger discovered the blade in the magazine pouch of the seat in front of her as passengers were boarding a Jan. 28 flight from Boston to San Francisco. The flight was delayed by three hours while security workers scoured the plane and rescreened passengers. United spokeswoman Chris Nardella said the tool was mistakenly left on the plane by a mechanic. Besides...

<p>BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Airline passengers accustomed to having their bags, their pockets and even their shoes checked are now encountering state troopers trained to examine their heads.</p> <p>Last week Logan International Airport began the nation's first "behavioral recognition program," in which police give what they describe as a "human lie detector test" to passengers with odd or suspicious behavior.</p>