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Published: 04/13/11

TSA to Review Airport Screening Policies After 6-Year-Old Girl Frisked

By  not in system - AOL News
TSA to Review Airport Screening Policies After 6-Year-Old Girl Frisked

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky couple said Wednesday that they want the Transportation Security Administration to change how it screens children after their 6-year-old daughter was frisked at the New Orleans airport. Selena Drexel told ABC's "Good Morning America" the family was returning home from a vacation earlier this month when their daughter Anna was selected for a pat-down. The couple posted a video of the search on YouTube. It shows a TSA agent patting down the child and explaining the procedure to the girl and her parents. The screener says that she will use the back of her hands on ...

Published: 03/28/11

Witch Says TSA Fired Her After Co-Worker Accused Her of Evil Hex

By  Dana Chivvis - AOL News
Witch Says TSA Fired Her After Co-Worker Accused Her of Evil Hex

Former Transportation Security Administration officer and practicing witch Carole A. Smith says she was fired from her job after co-worker Mary Bagnoli accused her of putting a hex on her car, MSNBC.com reports. Smith, a follower of the pagan religion Wicca, worked at New York's Albany International Airport, where she had a reputation for her skill in finding weapons hidden in luggage and in aiding with pat-downs. But in March 2009, Smith was investigated for a "threat of workplace violence," after Bagnoli said Smith scared her. Bagnoli said the witch had followed her after work one night ...

Published: 02/22/11

Alaska Lawmaker With Mastectomy Refuses TSA Pat-Down

By  Dana Chivvis - AOL News
Alaska Lawmaker With Mastectomy Refuses TSA Pat-Down

Alaska state Rep. Sharon Cissna is returning to Juneau today by car, small plane and ferry, rather than by plane as scheduled, because she refused to be patted down by security workers Sunday at the Seattle airport. Cissna, an Anchorage Democrat who was returning home after a medical treatment, underwent security screening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where a body scan showed scars on her body from breast cancer. She had undergone a mastectomy in the past, her chief of staff, Michelle Scannell, told The Associated Press. The 68-year-old lawmaker had been through a pat-down three ...

Published: 02/8/11

Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime

By  Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime

Proposed new legislation would protect travelers who worry that images taken of them by airport scanners could end up on the Internet. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill would make it a crime to share images taken by the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners, which produce graphic images of the human body. Those found guilty of violating the Security Screening Confidential Data Privacy Act, legislation being co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, could spend up to a year in prison ...

Published: 01/31/11

Donna D'Errico to Climb Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark

By  David Moye - AOL News
Donna D'Errico to Climb Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark

Former "Baywatch" star Donna D'Errico has enjoyed a pretty amazing career arc. But the 42-year-old actress, who recently turned down a spot on "Dancing With the Stars," is now focusing on Noah's ark. D'Errico, 42, is in training to fulfill a lifelong dream of climbing Mount Ararat in Turkey to search for the frozen remains of Noah's ark. According to Biblical legend, the ark was built centuries ago to protect Noah's family and two of every kind of animal during a flood lasting 40 days and 40 nights. After the great flood, the ark supposedly landed atop the mountain. Many believers have ...

Published: 01/24/11

Obama Condemns Terrorist Attack at Moscow Airport

By  Politics Daily Staff - Politics Daily
Obama Condemns Terrorist Attack at Moscow Airport

President Obama condemned an attack Monday that killed at least 31 people at a Moscow-area airport, calling it "an outrageous act of terrorism against the Russian people." He offered U.S. assistance to the investigators. Nearly 170 more people were injured, many of them seriously, in the attack at Domodedovo Airport, located on the outskirts of Moscow. The Washington Post reported heightened security throughout the city, including at Moscow's two other major airports and the metro system, where two suicide bombers killed 40 people in March. It was the second time Domodedovo airport has been ...

Published: 01/20/11

Handy 'Mile High Kit' Provides Pleasure in the Skies

By  Monica Garske - AOL News
Handy 'Mile High Kit' Provides Pleasure in the Skies

Having sex on an airplane may sound risque, but getting your jollies in the skies doesn't have to be as wild as it seems. In fact, you can be downright discreet about it. That's the idea, at least, behind the Mile High Intimacy Kits created by Seattle-based entrepreneur Ted Youngs. The kits -- packaged in subtle, travel-ready boxes -- contain everything a jet-setter could ever want or need for a quickie, spur-of-the-moment tryst aboard an airplane. The main selling point is that the kits are so inconspicuous, no one would ever have to know your naughty intentions. At a glance, the boxes ...

Published: 12/28/10

One Year Later: Epiphanies in the TSA Break Room

By  Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
One Year Later: Epiphanies in the TSA Break Room

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Published: 12/28/10

Amazing Kreskin Predicts War on Terror Will End in 150 Years

By  David Moye - AOL News
Amazing Kreskin Predicts War on Terror Will End in 150 Years

Famed mentalist The Amazing Kreskin has some good news and some bad news. The good news? There will be an end to the current war on terror. Now the bad news: Nobody currently living on this planet will be alive to see it. The famed "mentalist" -- who disdains being called a "psychic" -- says the war on terror won't be over for at least 150 years and is basing his prediction on both intuition and history. "Anyone who is surprised by how long the war will last hasn't studied history," Kreskin told AOL News. "The longest-running wars are religious-based." Gene ...

Published: 12/26/10

Year in Review: 13 Most Memorable Political Quotes of 2010

By  Carl M. Cannon - Politics Daily
Year in Review: 13 Most Memorable Political Quotes of 2010

The year now coming to a close was a rewarding one for collectors of political quotations. This is not the same thing as saying that most memorable lines of 2010 were uplifting. Many of the utterances that entered the lexicon were unrefined, simplistic or just plain mean. Women in the political arena were insulted and put upon, often by other women -- and sometimes by themselves. And the most inspiring campaign speech was given by a cable television comedian. It was that kind of year. Typically, many of the quotes we think we remember – "don't touch my junk," for example – were ...

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