A federal judge has ruled that border agents cannot seize a traveler's laptop, keep it locked up for months, and examine it for contraband files without a warrant half a year later.

Naval officer takes plea deal and has 2 year sentence and a $28,000 fine dropped.

*Saturday in Maine, television host Montel Williams spoke at yesterday’s Maine Medical Marijuana conference.

He was at the event, held at the University of Southern Maine, to speak about the state’s new law allowing medical marijuana dispensaries

From The Washington Post -- "Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials."

An officer shot an unarmed man after he had grabbed his girlfriend's behind.

From The New York Times: "In New Space Race, Enter the Entrepreneurs": Four years from now, the company plans for real modules to be launched and assembled into the solar system’s first private space station. "Every astronaut we have come in here just says, ‘Wow,’ ” said Robert T. Bigelow, the company founder. “They can’t believe the size of this thing.”

EL PASO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 14-year-old boy after a confrontation at an international bridge near downtown El Paso, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

Chihuahua State officials released a statement Tuesday demanding a full investigation into the death of the boy, identified as Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca....

In what has to be one of the biggest violations of common sense and burden of proof in motoring news this year, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that officers can “visually estimate” how fast a person is driving… and give them a ticket for it.

School officials have threatened a hearing-impaired girl with suspension if she uses sign language to talk to her friends on the school bus, the girl's parents say.

Danica Lesko and her parents say sign language is the only way to for the 12-year-old to communicate, especially while riding to school on a noisy bus.

The March 30 letter from her principal that said Danica was "doing sign language after being told it wasn't allowed on the bus."

The problem? Take your pick: 1) He was black in a white neighborhood. 2) He was suffering from a medical issue that causes sudden unconsciousness. 3) The property being "trespassed" was his own home. and 4) Neighbors repeatedly told the cops their victim was the homeowner and to let him go and were threatened with arrest.