6-year-old boy floats away in homemade balloon aircraft in northern ColoradoFORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft in Colorado and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as the balloon hurtled through the air. Pittsburgh police used acoustic warfare during G-20 protests, drawing legal groups’ irePITTSBURGH — Police ordered protesters to disperse at the Group of 20 summit last week with a device that can beam earsplitting alarm tones and verbal instructions that the manufacturer likens to a “spotlight of sound,” but that legal groups called potentially dangerous. Police study blueprints, computer in search for Yale student who vanished days before weddingNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Investigators searching for a Yale University graduate student who disappeared days before her wedding were reviewing security-camera footage, checking building blueprints and examining her computer, a Yale spokesman said Friday. Baltimore police to get BlackBerries; ‘Pocket Cops’ meant to make officers more productiveBALTIMORE — Baltimore’s police department will become one of the first agencies in the nation to issue every patrol officer a BlackBerry that allows for instant warrant checks, city officials said Wednesday. Obama administration tightens oversight of controversial laptop searches at the borderWASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers’ personal information. First new Taser stun gun since 2003 unveiled in US; it can deliver 3 shocks without reloadFOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. — Taser International has introduced its first new stun gun since 2003: a device capable of shocking three people without being reloaded. First new Taser stun gun since 2003 unveiled in US; it can shock 3 people without reloadFOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona — Taser International unveiled its first new stun gun since 2003 on Monday, a device that can shock three people without being reloaded. SKorean police: Hackers extracted data from virus-contaminated computers in cyberattacksSEOUL, South Korea — Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday. |