June 30, 2008, 5:51PM
Joe Horn cleared by grand jury in Pasadena shootings
Panel issues no-bill after two weeks of testimony
By BRIAN ROGERS and RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
A Harris County grand jury decided today that Joe Horn should not be charged with a crime for shooting two burglary suspects he confronted outside his neighbor’s home in Pasadena last fall. (more…)
Categories: Illegals
Feds probe S.F.’s migrant-offender shield
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, June 29, 2008
San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city’s immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return. (more…)
Categories: Illegals
Court upholds right to keep weapons at home
By Jennifer McMenamin | Sun reporter
June 27, 2008
In a historic ruling yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right for individuals to keep guns in their homes for self-defense. It was the first major high court ruling on the Second Amendment. (more…)
Categories: court law
Sunday, Jun. 22, 2008
Illegal immigration, drug trafficking on rise along I-80
By Pete Bosak / Centredaily.com
Motorists traveling Interstate 80 would likely be stunned if they knew how much criminal activity was riding along the highway with them.
Illegal immigrants and drug runners with fistfuls of cash and packages of narcotics travel the highway, police say.
And state police troopers based at Rockview are doing something about it. (more…)
Categories: Illegals · PA State Police Trooper
State trooper polices the online frontier
Computer crime: Tech investigators busy night and day.
By Debbie Garlicki | Of The Morning Call / June 22, 2008
The relentless demands on state Trooper Paul Iannace sometimes challenge him to be in two places at once. On one particularly grueling day, he had to be in a courtroom in Allentown and a high school in South Whitehall Township. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Cops Bust Huge Illegal Car Registration Ring
Friday, 20 Jun 2008, 5:28 PM EDT
Pennsylvania state police have broken up a huge scheme to illegally register hundreds, possibly thousands of cars in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Philadelphia transit police ratify new contract
By Paul Nussbaum / Inquirer Staff Writer
SEPTA transit police overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year contract yesterday, formally ending a long-running contract dispute that prompted a brief strike last weekend. (more…)
Categories: Contract 2008
Pa. state workers’ unions sue gov over furloughs
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Three labor unions representing thousands of Pennsylvania state government employees filed suit Thursday in an effort to block furloughs that have been threatened if state budget negotiations stall. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
NC state trooper fatally shot during traffic stop
June 18, 2008
CANTON, N.C. (AP) — Authorities charged a Florida man with first-degree murder Wednesday after a state Highway Patrol trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in western North Carolina. (more…)
Categories: North Carolina Highway Patrol
Associated Press
Economic slowdown casts shadow over Pa. budget
By MARC LEVY 06.18.08, 6:01 PM ET
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Hard bargaining is coming to Harrisburg as legislators begin looking for ways to shoehorn favored programs into the budget and scale back the governor’s spending plan to adjust for a sluggish economy. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
