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Two police officers testified yesterday that 20-year-old Navy Seaman Ryan T. Stowers was belligerent toward authorities several times before he was killed by a deputy U.S. Marshal in Rockville last fall. A detective from California told a Montgomery County jury that Seaman Stowers, of Redding, Calif., challenged him to a fight and shouted obscenities at him in June 2003. An officer from Chestertown, Md., said he had a run-in with the sailor about a month before the sailor was killed.

Pat Buchanan just said on Harball that Bush should send in federal agents to take control of Terri Schiavo and reinsert her feeding tube.

I wrote this to a FReeper earlier. She was feeling much frustration with many here I believe because of what was, in her mind, a careless disregard for morality and the well-being of an innocent and quite defenseless girl, Terri Schiavo.The intelligent and good FReeper was at the point of wanting to leave FR. So I wrote her:*****Don't go, please. You're one of the folks here with a real good heart and very strong feelings. That is a very good combination. Don't go ........I'm getting a feeling (or a wish) that today (Wednesday) the Federal marshals or some others are...

Flight reports by the Federal Air Marshal Service show that federal agents were on less than 10 percent of the nation's flights in December, a number several air marshals say was inflated to make it appear to Congress that commercial air travel is better protected than it is. "The numbers reported to headquarters come back higher than originally reported and are sometimes upwards of double the number of what is actually flown," an air marshal said. "Everyone knows they are padding the numbers."

Marshals Find Convict Freed by Mistake Friday January 07, 2005 7:09am Washington (AP) - U.S. Marshals say they've captured the man who was mistakenly set free from the D.C. jail last week. Forty-year-old Frank Vargo was convicted in November of robbing and stabbing a cabdriver in Southwest Washington. Vargo, who has used many aliases, was tracked to a hotel in Miami Beach. Authorities tell The Washington Post that Vargo was taken into custody by members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, who traveled to Florida after learning Vargo was there.

WASHINGTON, July 15 — Beards are out. So are jeans and athletic shoes. Suit coats are in, even on the steamiest summer days. That dress code, imposed by the Department of Homeland Security, makes federal air marshals uneasy — and not just because casual clothes are more comfortable in cramped airline seats. The marshals fear that their appearance makes it easier for terrorists to identify them, according to a professional group representing more than 1,300 air marshals. "If a 12-year-old can pick them out, a trained terrorist has no problem picking them out," said John D. Amat, a spokesman...

NEW DELHI: Can't wait till you arrive at JFK in New York to be fingerprinted and photographed front and side? Longing for the chastening embrace of US security procedures even before you touch down? Relax, help is at hand. If the Bush administration has its way, Statesbound Indian travellers could soon be subjected to passport and baggage checks by US Homeland Security officials especially stationed at Indian airports. Under a new scheme unveiled by US Customs chief Robert Bonner and reported in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, US agents will seek to review flight manifests and identify suspect passengers...

MARSHALS 'ON UK FLIGHTS' Armed US air marshals are flying in and out of Scotland on-board passenger flights, it has been claimed. They are said to have been aboard a number of flights over the last two weeks. That was since a Continental Airlines flight from Glasgow to the United States was grounded in a terror alert, according to a report in the Sunday Mail newspaper. A spokesman for the Transportation and Security Administration, based in Washington DC refused to confirm or deny the report. He said: "There are thousands of federal air marshals flying on US domestic carriers every...

Armed sky marshals are to be deployed on some UK passenger planes in response to the heightened state of alert in the US, the Government has announced. Extra security measures for air travel have also been put in place on the ground following the raised terror threat. The government said it was "a responsible and prudent step" at the present time. The sky marshals would be deployed "where appropriate" and be dressed as ordinary passengers. Transport secretary Alistair Darling said: "Security is kept constantly under review and it is essential that we take all reasonable steps to deter terrorist activities....

TACOMA – Some questionable photographs ended up in the wrong place, but is the incident being blown out of proportion? Inside Hooters, it’s common practice to have a picture taken with the Hooters girls. Inside the official file on a fireworks crime, it’s common to find pictures of the evidence. In one case, it was hundreds of pounds of seized fireworks – an Hooters girls. In the picture is Snohomish County deputy fire marshall Bruce Pulver posing with four Hooters ladies on the hood of a U-Haul truck. The county rented the truck for Pulver to transport the fireworks evidence....

WASHINGTON, June 24 — More than 100 federal air marshals have been fired or stripped of their flight status in recent weeks for problems stemming from their security clearance background investigations, MSNBC.com has learned. In addition, some air marshals are flying without having received their final security clearances, Transportation Security Administration sources told MSNBC.com. The revelations fuel critics’ charges that a key element of post-9/11 airline security is being poorly managed. THE TRANSPORTATION Security Administration, the agency that oversees federal air marshals, admits that some marshals have been fired while others have been stripped of their flight status and placed...