NYPD gets radiation detectors to search bombs

September 26th, 2009 President praises NYPD during terror briefingNEW YORK — President Barack Obama praised the police department on Saturday for its work in disrupting a possible terrorist bombing plot aimed at commuter trains. Obama dialed in to a briefing the New York Police Department was giving his counterterrorism and homeland security adviser to thank the police for their "outstanding" work during the U.N.

September 23rd, 2009 Complaint suggests NYPD misstepped in terror probeNEW YORK — Police acting without the FBI's knowledge might have inadvertently helped blow the surveillance of a terrorism suspect and compromised a bomb plot investigation at a sensitive stage by questioning an imam about him, a criminal complaint suggests. "They came to ask me about your characters," the Muslim religious leader, Ahmad Wais Afzali, told Najibullah Zazi in a secretly recorded Sept.

September 16th, 2009 LAHORE - In order to inflict maximum casualties on NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan, The Taliban has been making high-tech and deadlier bombs, which are hard-to-detect due to their nonmetal components, according to a confidential intelligence report. According to Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organisation report, Taliban's switch to use improvised explosive devices (IEDs) instead of larger anti-armour bombs has enabled the terrorist outfit to produce more bombs and target more US troops.

September 16th, 2009 TORONTO - Ozone layer alterations, prompted by climate change, will enhance ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the tropics and Antarctica, according to a discovery by physicists. Climate change is an established fact, but scientists are only just beginning to understand its regional manifestations, said Michaela Hegglin, a physics researcher at the University of Toronto (U-T) and lead study author.

September 9th, 2009 NYPD rewords report that some say insulted MuslimsNEW YORK — The New York Police Department has reworked a report on homegrown terrorism in response to complaints that it insulted Muslims. A coalition of Muslim groups on Wednesday applauded the two-page clarification tucked into "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" — a study first circulated in law enforcement circles and on the Internet in 2007.

August 12th, 2009 NYPD divers remove helicopter pieces from HudsonNEW YORK — New York police say divers in the Hudson River have removed about 20 small pieces of helicopter wreckage from a mid-air collision over the weekend. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says nine divers returned to the crash site Wednesday morning to search for debris from the collision, which killed nine people.

August 10th, 2009 NYPD: Bodies of plane pilot, adult passenger remain missingHOBOKEN, N.J. —Divers resume their search Monday for the bodies of the pilot of the small plane and an adult passenger who were killed along with seven others in a midair collision over the Hudson River.

July 29th, 2009 Study: Tanning beds definitely cause cancerLONDON — International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category deeming both to be definite causes of cancer. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens." A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75 percent when people start using tanning beds before age 30.

July 29th, 2009 Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenicLONDON — International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens." A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75 percent when people start using tanning beds before age 30.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US is installing radiation detectors at Pakistani ports to check proliferation of nuclear material and weapons of mass destruction to and from the country, the Online news agency reported Friday. "We do work with Pakistan with the Department of Homeland Security, on Secure Freight Initiative, in putting radiation detectors in their ports.

July 10th, 2009 NYPD: Missing high-rise worker might be in trashNEW YORK — Police believe that a cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise may be dead, that her body was dumped in the trash and that she could turn up in a Pennsylvania landfill. "We have reason to fear the worst," New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

June 12th, 2009 Terror drill: 'New York, you have a problem'NEW YORK — The FBI was scrambling. Agents had intercepted information about a possible terrorist attack in Manhattan, including a diagram showing a mysterious device.

April 28th, 2009 NYPD officers plead not guilty to rape chargesNEW YORK — Two New York City police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, burglary and evidence tampering in connection with an attack on a Manhattan woman. Officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata are accused of assaulting an intoxicated woman they had escorted home in December.

April 23rd, 2009 NYPD computers targeted by international hackersNEW YORK — New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says international hackers try at least 70,000 times a day to gain unauthorized entry into the computer system of the nation's largest police force. But he said Wednesday all the attempts have failed because of a strong protection system that prevents security breaches.

April 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - After last month's fracas during the auditions for 'America's Next Top Model', Tyra Banks is embarking on another run for tryouts of hopeful models. The auditions for the supermodel's hit TV show will be held at the Penn Plaza Pavilion on W.