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Judge to Cops: No More of This 'Kansas Two-Step'

Judge Orders Cops to Stop
Using This Stalling Tactic

Nov 22, 2023 7:21 AM CST

Judge Orders Cops to Stop Using This Stalling Tactic

Permanent injunction bars Kansas Highway Patrol from using 'Kansas Two-Step' to try to find drugs

(Newser) - The Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the "Kansas Two-Step" to detain out-of-state drivers long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Kathryn H. Vratil on Monday granted a permanent injunction, which...

Show Dog That
Escaped at Airport
Found

UPDATED

Mar 26, 2019 7:04 PM CDT

Show Dog That Escaped at Airport Found

Atlanta airport staged a search for Gale

(Newser) - After a frantic search, a prize-winning show dog that disappeared from the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport just before it was to fly home to Amsterdam has been found. Gale, a pure-bred American Staffordshire Terrier, had been checked in by her handlers and put in a crate for the trip...

Lawsuit:
22 Girls Were
Strip-Searched
in Choir Class

Jul 7, 2018 3:00 PM CDT

Lawsuit: 22 Girls Were Strip-Searched in Choir Class

A Fifth Circuit court of appeals sends the case to court

(Newser) - The mothers of two girls who were allegedly strip-searched in a Houston middle school will get their day in court after all, KTRK reports. The two moms say their girls' civil rights were violated when nurses at Lanier Middle School looked under the clothing of 22 female students for $50...

Geraldo: I Was 'Raped'
by TSA Agent

May 14, 2012 12:33 AM CDT

Geraldo: I Was 'Raped' by TSA Agent

'My junk was junked' on way to Afghanistan, he says

(Newser) - Geraldo Rivera says he was "manually raped" by a New York airport security guard on his way to cover a story in Afghanistan. "The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy," he said on Fox and Friends . "The scanner wasn'...

FBI Illegally Searched
Phone Records for Years

investigation

Jan 19, 2010 8:55 AM CST

FBI Illegally Searched Phone Records for Years

Thousands targeted, including Times and Post reporters

(Newser) - From 2002 to 2006, the FBI repeatedly violated its own rules, collecting more than 2,000 telephone records by declaring terror emergencies that didn't exist, and then never following up with the letters required to justify such searches. As the bureau strained to gather intelligence more quickly in the wake...

Angie Tops Yahoo's List
of Most-Searched Women

Dec 1, 2008 4:58 PM CST

Angie Tops Yahoo's List of Most-Searched Women

(Newser) - Yahoo! has released a list of its 10 most-searched women of the year, including obvious honorees and some more off the radar:

Angelina Jolie: The birth of her twins, box-office success, and a dramatic turn in Changeling made Jolie the most-searched woman on the engine.
Sarah Palin: Given her brief

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