Federal marijuana distribution conspiracy charges were filed against seven defendants who were arrested during what lawenforcement officials said they believe is the largest seizure ever of marijuana in the Chicago area -- conservatively estimated at approximately 21,800 pounds, or nearly 11 tons, packed into six railroad cars from Mexico that arrived at a warehouse in Chicago Heights, Ill., earlier this month. The marijuana is estimated to have a value of approximately $22 million.
The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved spending $1 million to install fingerprint scanners in child care facilities as a means of stemming fraud in the Wisconsin Shares subsidy program.
A man who held a school board at gunpoint on Tuesday and then began randomly firing had circled the date on a calendar found in his mobile home, evidence he had been planning the attack for some time, police said.
Foxborough, Mass. police are revamping Gillette Stadium security after 112 fans were placed under protective custody and 15 others were arrested last weekend during a game with the New England Patriots and the New York Jets.
Ohio State University revealed that it is notifying about 760,000 students, professors, and other employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have been stolen and the cost is $4 million to fix the problem.
Nearly 730,000 nonfatal violent crimes and about 1.8 million property crimes were experienced by people age 12 or older with a disability in 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The violent crimes against people with disabilities included 40,000 rapes or sexual assaults, 116,000 robberies, 115,000 aggravated assaults and nearly 459,000 simple assaults.
A late-night shootout between Border Patrol agents and gunmen in Arizona near the Mexican border left one agent dead and four of the gunmen in custody, and authorities said they were searching today for one man who got away.
For the second time in less than a week, an armed motorcyclist made off with thousands of dollars in casino chips, this time from one of the glitziest resorts on the Las Vegas strip.
ASIS International and BSI released a joint American National Standard,Business Continuity Management Systems: Requirements with Guidance for Use(ANSI/ASIS/BSI BCM.1-2010). The standardprovides auditable criteria with accompanying guidance for developing and implementing a business continuity management system that improves an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disruptive event.
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