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First Woman Ever Makes FBI's 10 Most Wanted Terrorist List

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:30:22 +0000

Joanna Chesimard has made history, but not in a good way.

Three Connected to Bombing Suspect Questioned in New Bedford

Taylor Cormier — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:02:04 +0000

The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing seeped into New Bedford, Mass. on Friday evening with the questioning of several people who knew suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Hostage Situation In Alabama Ends With Child Safe

Gino Geruntino — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:12:52 +0000

The nearly week long hostage situation in Alabama involving a five-year-old boy has finally come to an end.

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FBI Foils Plot to Bomb Federal Reserve Building in New York

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:10:59 +0000

A man drove from Long Island, New York, into Lower Manhattan earlier today in a van he thought was filled with explosives. He parked the van close to the Federal Reserve building, just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and planned to detonate it using a cell phone from a nearby hotel.

The explosives, however, were fake.

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Wannabe Special Agent Sues FBI After He's Rejected Over a Pushup

Shauna Wright — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:00:49 +0000

Most jobs don’t have physical fitness tests, but the FBI does — and one man who was denied a position as a special agent for doing 29 pushups instead of the required 30 is now suing the agency for gender discrimination.

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Disturbing al Qaeda Graphic Sparks FBI Investigation

Shauna Wright — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:11:18 +0000

It seems al Qaeda, the group responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fancies itself a graphics design powerhouse as well. The creepy image above, which depicts the New York City skyline with the caption “Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York,” was posted on a radical overseas website, and police and the FBI are investigating.

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Do You Have Code Cracking Skills? If So, The FBI Needs Your Help

James Stanley — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:10 +0000

On June 30, 1999, officers in St. Louis found the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick, who had been murdered and dumped in a field. The lone clues regarding the homicide were two encrypted notes found in McCormick's pants.

Now, investigators from the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association are seeking the public’s help in breaking the encrypted code found in the notes on the body of the murdered Missouri man.

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Major Drug Bust In Bossier City, Four Jailed

James Stanley — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:38:01 +0000

An 8-month long investigation by the Bossier City Police Department’s Division of Special Investigations, the FBI Violent Crime Task Force and the Louisiana State Police into the illegal sales of cocaine and marijuana in the Barksdale Annex neighborhood has resulted in the arrest of four people

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