For whatever reasons, Congress was able to resist the pressures of the farm lobby to extend the ethanol subsidy. Now it's time for Congress to show the same intelligence and courage and end subsidies for a host of industries.
AP | By AMY TAXIN | Posted 10.16.2011
LOS ANGELES -- Immigrants who say they were hauled into jail for selling ice cream without a permit and for reporting being the victim of domestic vio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 08.14.2011
The Detroit Free Press made an astonishing discovery last month. The city's former crime lab had been abandoned. As the paper reported, "Thousands of ...
KDVR | Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado is considering possible changes to a growing federal program that uses fingerprints to catch illegal immigrants....
James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Our eyes are far too good for us. They show us so much that we can't take it all in, so we shut out most of the world, and try to look at things as br...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The FBI has seized a set of John Lennon's fingerprints from a Manhattan memorabilia shop. U.S. agents removed the item on Wednesday ...
CBS4 Denver | Brian Maass | Posted 05.25.2011
A CBS4 Investigation has learned that one fingerprint identification technician in the Denver Police Department's Identification Bureau has been fired...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER — The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing oppositio...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MIDDELTOWN, N.J. — Authorities said a man who escaped from the back of a police car in New Jersey tried to gnaw off his fingerprints. Police cap...
Telegraph | Andrew Hough | Posted 05.25.2011
Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program. ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Lia Ring, a Chinese national, had surgery to "remove and interchange" her fingerprints so she could enter Japan illegally, the Metropolitan Police Dep...
New York Daily News | John Marzulli | Posted 05.25.2011
An innocent Georgia man spent 17 months on Rikers Island on robbery charges before a sharp-eyed detective noticed he was the victim of mismatched fing...
Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011
What depresses me about Law & Order is not that they expeditiously solve crimes every week through meticulous sleuthing. It's that real law enforcement, crime labs, and investigatory agencies virtually never get things right.
Crunch Gear | Devin Coldewey | Posted 05.25.2011
This has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time. The UK has spent £4.4 billion ($6.6bn US) on a controversial high-tech National I...
Ed Koch | Posted 03.10.2012