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Television news segments this week have embarrassed the Transportation Security Administration with images of airport screeners sleeping on the job or stealing iPads left by passengers in bins at metal detectors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The TSA security line, often the most dreaded part of traveling by air, that shoeless and beltless shuffle through metal detectors, all in the name of air safety.
Out of the 56,000 personnel that ensure security at about 450 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulated airports nationwide, from fiscal years 2010 through 2012, the annual number of misconduct cases by employees increased from 2,691 to 3,408 -- slightly more than 5 percent, accord
HARRISBURG, N.C. — Ron Arnette fought off Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever just so he could compete in Harrisburg’s annual cow milking competition.
CONCORD — Several students at R. BrownMcAllister Elementary School had the same question for U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson as he visited their school on Tuesday. They wanted to know why people had to be 18 years old to vote.
State and local employers told two members of Congress April 30 that the Affordable Care Act could force cuts in programs or services and limit their future expansion.
Local leaders and federal officials have until June 15 to persuade the Federal Aviation Administration to restore funding to the air traffic control tower at Concord Regional Airport.
After that, budget cuts stemming from the federal budget sequestration will force towers at 149 noncommercial airports nationwide to close.