Author: Tom Hays
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Berlin attack prompts high security in US cities for holiday
NEW YORK — In the wake of the Berlin truck attack, police departments around the U.S. are making a show of force at places where crowds gather at Christmastime. In New York City, police dispatched heavily-armed counterterrorism officers to stand guard at crowded pop-up Christmas markets in Union Square, Bryant Park and Columbus Circle only…
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FBI sought evidence of intrusions in Hillary Clinton emails
NEW YORK — The FBI was trying to get a look at thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails on disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner’s computer partly to see if anyone had hacked in to steal classified information, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Investigating possible hacking appeared to be a secondary rationale for the email search,…
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Exec who jacked up price of a life-saving drug is arrested
NEW YORK (AP) — A boyish-looking entrepreneur who became the new face of corporate greed when he jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug fiftyfold was led away in handcuffs by the FBI on unrelated fraud charges Thursday in a scene that left more than a few Americans positively gleeful. Martin Shkreli, a…
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Court: NYC can ban church service in public school
NEW YORK (AP) — In the latest chapter of a long-running legal fight over separation of church and state, a federal appeals court again ruled on Thursday that New York City school officials can ban a small Christian congregation from holding weekend services in a grade school. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found…
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Official: New York bombing suspect eyed at other targets
NEW YORK — The Times Square car bomb suspect had considered bombing Grand Central Terminal or other New York City landmarks before settling on Times Square as his target, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Faisal Shahzad also considered Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, the World Financial Center near ground zero…
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Pakistan native admits to Times Square bomb plot
NEW YORK — Seized off a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his native land before he rigged an SUV with a homemade device to explode in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen who recently…
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Registered owner of car bomb SUV interviewed; police looking into possible South Park cartoon link
NEW YORK — Investigators have spoken to the registered owner of an SUV used as a homemade car bomb in a failed terror attack in the heart of Times Square, police officials said Monday, but would not say what they learned. Paul Browne, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for public information, would not give further details…
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Beneath New York City, police protect tunnels from terror
NEW YORK — The tidy, three-story brownstone looks like any other on the cobblestone block in Brooklyn, but it isn’t. It’s a fake, leading directly to the belly of the nation’s largest subway system. The unmarked emergency exit behind the facade is one of many posts protected by beat cops defending the city against bombings…
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Terror investigation that netted Colorado taxi driver arrests 2 more
NEW YORK — Two men were arrested Friday in the investigation of a bomb plot targeting New York City that previously led to charges against a Colorado airport driver. The arrests in New York of Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were part of “an ongoing investigation” by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to Special…
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Terror trail: From working-class immigrant to terrorism suspect
NEW YORK — It was midsummer in suburban Denver when an unassuming, bearded man pushed a red shopping cart between shelves stacked with hair coloring and nail polish remover.By the time Najibullah Zazi checked into a nearby hotel suite with a kitchen in September, he had at least 18 bottles of peroxide-based hair lighteners and…