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Milton-Freewater, Ore., is the latest city to allow city employees to carry guns while on the job, according to The Union Bulletin. The City Council approved a change in the employee handbook Monday that allows properly-permitted staff to carry a firearm at work.

A transient jumped over a counter inside Los Angeles City Hall and vandalized the office of a city councilman Friday afternoon, underscoring already existing security concerns at the building.

With the 2014 Winter Olympics approaching, more say it was a bad decision (44%) than a good decision (32%) to hold the games in Russia.

The Transportation Security Administration will not arm its officers.

Just minutes before a gunman opened fire in Los Angeles International Airport last fall, killing a TSA security screener and wounding three other people, the two armed security officers assigned to the area left for breaks without informing a dispatcher as required, The Associated Press reports.

Major League Baseball has told its 30 teams they must implement security screening for fans by 2015, either with hand-held metal detection or walk-through magnetometers.

The game plan for security at this year's Super Bowl will include deployment of nearly 4,000 local police and private security officers.

Rep. Leslie Combs accidentally fired her handgun while unloading it in her office in the Capitol Annex.

The TSA confiscated 20 percent more guns at airports in 2013, with the Atlanta airport having the most seizures at 110.

Boston police are clashing with the city's incoming mayor over a proposal to arm some officers with AR-15 rifles.