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...week, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) unabashedly joined the jingoist wing of his party. Supplementing his earlier support for Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, “The Maverick” launched a television advertisement shamelessly catering to militarists. In the video, McCain, accompanied by a local sheriff, argues that if we swell the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol with 3,000 new agents, deploy the National Guard, and complete the 700 miles of “danged fence” between the U.S. and Mexico, trafficking, trespassing, and murder in Arizona will...
Lingle initially seemed to tolerate the occupation, which began on April 7. But sheriff's deputies quickly began issuing trespassing citations to protesters. Some got multiple citations, particularly for staying on the premises after office hours. Then, during a press conference at her office on Wednesday, April 14, the governor ignored questions from parents and warned that anyone who had already been cited twice would be arrested. Later that night, two people were taken into custody. The following day, two more were handcuffed and led away. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about Hawaii...
Broward County sheriff Al Lamberti says he isn't sure why his jurisdiction has become the hotbed. "There's no reasonable explanation," he says. "It seems like it's just happened. I don't know why. Maybe we have better beaches, I don't know." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Back in Clayton, many wonder if there are other Hutaree members still waiting to stage an attack on police. It's certainly a concern of Sheriff Jack Welsh of Lewanee County, where Clayton is located. "It's scary," he says. Welsh has tightened security at his department's buildings, telling his troops, "Be vigilant, be aware...
...instance, the "invasion" of Okanogan County in northwest Washington State. It began last September when a local cattle rancher stumbled across a backwoods military camp teeming with men in fatigues. Word quickly spread that the invasion of U.N. troops had finally begun. When concerned citizens showed up at Sheriff Jim Weed's office, Weed grabbed the telephone and soon learned that the men in cammies were actually border-patrol officials conducting a joint operation with Canadian authorities. By then, though, panic had spread throughout the state, prompting phone calls from state senators and representatives. To this day, there are some...