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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.

Lax security in the employee parking lot and shuttle at Tampa International Airport is a potential danger to the airport, passengers and crew, say dozens of airline employees.

Google has opened its first data centers in Asia to cater for soaring demand.

A new federal report highlights “trauma-informed” approaches adopted by more than three-dozen federal agencies to address violence and abuse against women, according to TheCrimeReport.org.

Little more than a month after the killing of Transportation Security Administration officer Geraldo I. Hernandez at Los Angeles International Airport, 59 percent of those polled by a conservative think tank say TSA agents should be armed, LA Times reports.