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Cars stolen from the District, Maryland, Virginia, and beyond are winding up in shipping containers, headed overseas, and it’s a problem that customs officials say is getting worse. Port of Baltimore Director Adam Rottman told FOX 5 that last fiscal year they intercepted 149 stolen cars, but in the last three months, that number is already at 70, on pace to just about double last fiscal year’s total. "Transnational criminal organizations will make money any way they can, whether it’s drugs, terrorism, human smuggling, selling fake Care Bears, anything they can do to make a dollar," Rottman told FOX 5,...

<p>DEVELOPING -- Federal authorities have come across what they believe may be a credible threat to the U.S. homeland surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, several sources tell Fox News.</p>

Stolen: One Poynor VFD fire truck By Art Lawler Somebody took the fire truck in Poynor last week. The fire truck. It's the same truck that's been parked in the same space at the same fire department for the last 26 years -- almost all of those days and nights with the keys in the ignition. It's not like it's out there being inconspicuous somewhere, what with the City of Poynor written across its doors, and the civil defense emblem imprinted on it. The red paint has admittedly begun to fade in recent years, but there's no mistaking this vehicle's...

<p>PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) — A gasoline tanker truck has been missing from a Pennsauken parking lot for more than a week, sending local officials and the FBI scrambling.</p> <p>The New Jersey Office of Counterterrorism has asked all the state's law enforcement agencies to look for the truck.</p>