ATF smuggling sting floods streets with cigarettes
An AP review shows ATF undercover operations in Virginia have funneled over 250 million cigarettes into the black market in three years, fueling organized crime and tax losses while prosecutions remain limited and minor buyers, including youths, are affected. The audit notes low investigation and budget shares, with Virginia and North Carolina taxing cigarettes at minimal levels.
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Falls Church
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Virginia
Associated Press
New York City
ATF
Eric Lindblom
Campaign For
Department of Justice
Justice Department
Inspector General
Atfs
ATE
District of Columbia
North Carolina
Witnesses recount church shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller
In Wichita, witnesses testified about the morning at the church when Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed. Scott Roeder, 51, is on trial for murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
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Wichita
Kan
George Tiller
Supreme Court
Scott Roeder
Tiller
Kansas City
Associated Press
Roeder
Fellowship Hall
Sedgwick County
Nora Foulston
Kathy Wegner
911
Jeanne
Valerie Shirkey
Warren Wilbert
Private unions shrink as government jobs surpass in 2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 2009 union membership fell to 15.3 million with private sector workers dropping 10 percent and government unions gaining slightly. Local and state governments accounted for 51.5 percent of all union members, as nonunion numbers also declined.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Britain raises terror threat level to severe
Britain raised its terror threat alert to severe the second-highest level amid new security measures after a Christmas Day bombing attempt. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said vigilance increases but there is no intelligence of an imminent attack.
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London
Britain
Europe
Johnson
U.S
Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Amsterdam
Detroit
Abdulmutallab
Yemen
U.k’s
Joint Terrorism Analysis Center
U.K
al-Qaida
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