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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Justice, Shootings, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Joe Biden
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Obama administration spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report from a non-partisan immigration policy think tank concludes the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority, spending more money -- $18 billion -- on immigration enforcement in the...
Tags: Washington, DC, Migration, Career and Workplace, National Government, FBI
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Elkhart city employee pleads guilty to child pornography charges
ELKHART COUNTY – An Elkhart City employee has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. The Secret Service helped arrest 52-year-old Stephen Sachs of Goshen in February while he was working with the street department. He was arrested...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Computer Crime, Abusive Behavior
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Misconduct alleged against Secret Service agents
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — A dozen Secret Service agents with President Barack Obama at an international summit have been relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct. The Associated Press received an anonymous tip that the misconduct...Tags: Colombia, Career and Workplace, Employees, White House
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Cabbie unlikely celebrity in Colombia sex scandal
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Prosecution, Social Media, Media Industry, U.S. Military
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Panetta: Marines punished for prostitute attack
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says four Marines were demoted and severely punished for allegedly pushing a prostitute out of a car in Brasilia late last year after a dispute over payment. The incident is similar, but...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Brasilia (Brazil), Leon Panetta, Defense
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UPDATE: Goshen man charged in child pornography case
ELKHART – City officials say a Secret Service agent and St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office detective took an Elkhart Street Department employee away from his job in handcuffs Thursday morning. By Thursday evening he had been charged for one...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Computer Crime, Justice System, Abusive Behavior
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School: Sandusky denied job after background check
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A year and a half after an investigation began into former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's contact with young boys, he applied for a volunteer coaching job at a college but was denied the job after a...Tags: Prosecution, Court Preliminary, Trials, NBC (tv network), ESPN (tv network)
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Home remodeling turns up counterfeit cash stash
TROY, Mich. (AP) — Police say a home remodeling project in suburban Detroit turned up a stash of counterfeit cash. The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/s9q42W) police in Troy got a call Monday from the homeowner, who had lived...Tags: Politics, Home Improvement, Freedom of the Press
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Obama: 'Angry' if Secret Service allegations true
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — President Barack Obama, speaking for the first time about allegations that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes, said Sunday that "of course I'll be angry" if those accusations are proven true by an investigation....Tags: Darrell E Issa, Colombia, U.S. Military, CBS Corp.
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