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Anger over Facebook photo sets off terrorism scare on US Airways flight
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A man angry about a compromising Facebook photo of his girlfriend took revenge against the ex-boyfriend who posted it, making a hoax call to police that set off a terrorism scare and got the former beau taken off an airliner at gunpoint.
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US Airways flight explosives tip was a hoax
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Philadelphia police say a security scare that prompted authorities to recall an airborne flight was the result of a hoax.
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Apple ID's stolen by Anonymous, posted online
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More than 1 million Apple Ids have been compromised by a prominent computer hacking group after they were stolen from an FBI database.
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Johnny Bowman murder: FBI, police step up investigation into 1984 murder
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The FBI and Virginia State Police are renewing an effort to solve a strange, decades-old murder of a Virginia state trooper in his Manassas home.
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Guard, agencies blamed for Detroit McNamara building bomb flap
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In early 2011, a security agency at a Detroit federal building didn't realize it let an explosive device sit under a desk inside the building for three weeks. now, the guard that found it and many others have been reprimanded.
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Faical Chebbi wanted for kidnapping children, taking them to Tunisia
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Faical Chebbi, a former Prince George's County resident, is now a wanted fugitive for allegedly kidnapping his children, taking them to Tunisia and refusing to return them to his estranged wife, the FBI says.
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Amine El Khalifi pleads guilty in Capitol bomb plot
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Amine El Khalifi, a Virginia man accused in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty in an Alexandria courtroom on Friday and faces 25-30 years in prison.
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FBI links white-powder envelopes to Texas
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The FBI says it suspects the mailings of hundreds of envelopes containing white powder over the last four years are the work of someone in Texas.
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FBI cracks down on economic espionage
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American businesses are at almost constant risk of losing sensitive data, such as unique technology, to foreign hackers.
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Northern Virginia/Honduras drug ring: 28 arrested in alleged cocaine ring
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More than two dozen people from Maryland and Virginia have been arrested for their roles in a Northern Virginia-based drug ring in which they allegedly trafficked cocaine from Honduras into the United States, officials say.
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Tennessee abduction, murder case: FBI searching for suspect
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Heavily-armed FBI agents and authorities from Mississippi and Tennessee were searching woods and back roads for what they said was a dangerous man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.
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Osama bin Laden death: No 'credible' threats ahead of death anniversary
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U.S. intelligence officials say that ahead of the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing, there are no “credible” terror threats against the United States.
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Virgin Islands delegate got money from DC donor under investigation
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The Virgin Islands' delegate to Congress has benefited from the largesse of prominent government contractor Jeffrey Thompson, whose contributions to D.C. officials are under investigation by federal authorities.
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FBI raids ACT College
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Agents from the U.S. Education Department's inspector general's office, and the FBI raided offices at ACT College, the healthcare training school that closed without notice earlier this month.
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Eric Toth tops FBI's 'Most Wanted' list for child pornography
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Eric Toth, 30, used to be a local teacher, but he now tops the FBI's "Most Wanted" list for allegedly possessing and producing child pornography.
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Christopher Lee Carlson, Oregon man, arrested over suspicious-powder letters sent to Congress
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A 39-year-old man was arrested Friday in Portland in connection with threatening letters containing a suspicious powdery substance that were sent to members of Congress.
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FBI investigates suspicious letters delivered to schools, businesses in D.C., 6 states
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FBI agents are investigating possible links between nearly 20 other suspicious letters with powder delivered in D.C., Dallas, Alabama, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and an art gallery in New York City.
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Retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson still missing
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Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared in March 2007—a day after arriving on Kish Island in Iran.
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