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Passenger traffic increasing at Oklahoma City airport
Published: Mon, Apr 30, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials at Will Rogers World Airport say an increase in passengers is causing longer lines during the early morning hours. The Oklahoma City airport says passenger traffic in March was up nearly 7 percent over last year. Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney says more passengers are traveling... Read More
Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers
Published: Mon, Nov 15, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful. Across the country, passengers simmered over... Read More
Tulsa International Airport security checkpoint shut down by 'novelty item'
Updated: Wed, Aug 18, 2010
A security checkpoint at Tulsa International Airport was shut down after a suspicious object was found Wednesday, but after examining it, officials said they don’t believe it was a threat. Read More
Fundamental Goodness
Published: Mon, May 10, 2010
On the cusp of graduation, an 18-year-old senior student at my children's school died the other day. It wasn't alcohol or drugs that killed her, nor was it a car crash or cancer. Seemingly in fine health, she died after suffering a stroke at home, without warning.
Frances Welke's obituary said this: "She was a... Read More
Passengers get extra attention at airports
Updated: Mon, Jan 4, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some people traveling to the United States from or through Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries were subjected to extra security screening, including full body pat-downs, Monday as U.S. officials refined their response to a failed terrorist attack in Detroit on Dec. 25.
The... Read More
Nev. judge dismisses gun case against Jerry Lewis
Updated: Tue, Sep 2, 2008
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas judge has dismissed a firearms charge against entertainer Jerry Lewis. Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Karen Bennett-Haron dismissed the case Friday after attorneys agreed to let the 82-year-old comedian off without fines.
Lewis was cited in July for attempting to carry an... Read More
Signs of Possible Deal on New ID Rules
Updated: Sat, Mar 22, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There are signs of a potential compromise to end the Bush administration's standoff with states resisting new standards for driver's licenses. For people who live in those holdout states, the dispute raises the specter of hassles at airports and federal buildings.
At issue is a law... Read More
Security levels rise at state airports
Published: Fri, Aug 11, 2006
Gov. Brad Henry and the state’s top security official Thursday asked Oklahomans to be patient after Oklahoma’s homeland security threat level at the state’s two largest airports was raised.
The threat level was raised from elevated (yellow) to high (orange).
Henry raised the level after... Read More
New security measures
Published: Fri, Aug 11, 2006
Questions and answers about new security measurers implemented Thursday by the Transportation Security Administration in the wake of the foiled terrorism plot in Britain: Q: Is it safe to fly? A: Yes. We do not have any specific threat to flights in the U.S. However, out of an abundance of caution, we have taken... Read More
Latest plot shakes an airline industry barely on its feet
Published: Fri, Aug 11, 2006
ATLANTA - The ink barely dry on second-quarter results showing fuller planes and profits some hadn’t seen in years, airlines are again being tested - this time by a foiled terror plot that is sure to make passengers uneasy about flying.
The financial toll on the carriers and whether they will have to scrap... Read More
U.S. on highest alert: Foiled terror plan tightens security
Published: Fri, Aug 11, 2006
LONDON - British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands. Chilling accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001, that would use common electronic devices to detonate liquid... Read More
Gov. Henry raises threat level at airports
Published: Thu, Aug 10, 2006
Gov. Brad Henry today asked for Oklahomans to be patient after he raised Oklahoma's homeland security threat level at the state's two largest airports from elevated condition, or yellow, to high condition, or orange.
Passengers will notice increased security at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City... Read More
Passengers face long lines at Will Rogers Airport
Published: Thu, Aug 10, 2006
Passengers waited in long lines at Will Rogers World Airport Thursday after new security measures were implemented across the nation because of a plot in Britain to use liquid explosives to bring down commercial aircraft.
Passengers were prohibited from bringing liquid aboard airplanes, including toiletries... Read More
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta resigns
Updated: Fri, Jun 23, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, who helped rebuild confidence in U.S. airports and flying after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Friday he's leaving the Bush administration.
"It is time for me to move on to other challenges," Mineta said in a letter to President Bush.
White House press... Read More
Terror case revived U.S. may present 'untainted' witness
Updated: Sat, Mar 18, 2006
WASHINGTON - U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday allowed the government to try to salvage its death penalty case against al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. The sentencing trial appeared on the verge of collapse earlier this week. Brinkema granted the federal prosecutors' request to summon aviation... Read More
Moussaoui judge urged to reconsider
Updated: Thu, Mar 16, 2006
Prosecutors call evidence essential to their case. WASHINGTON - Prosecutors in the death penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui asked a federal judge on Wednesday to reconsider her decision to bar key witnesses in the case, saying her ruling was "excessive" and "will hamstring the government's... Read More
Moussaoui penalty trial loses most of testimony
Updated: Wed, Mar 15, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Responding to what she called "a series of egregious errors, a federal judge on Tuesday barred prosecutors from presenting a major portion of their case in the death penalty trial of al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui. "I don't think in the annals of criminal law there has ever been a case... Read More
Jet cleared after bomb search
Updated: Mon, Feb 27, 2006
Photo by Steve Gooch An airplane at Will Rogers World Airport was evacuated this morning after an employee found a threatening message, an airport spokeswoman said. About 7:45 a.m. an American Eagle employee loading baggage onto a plane found graffiti written on the inside of the plane, said Karen Carney,... Read More
Passengers find no delays at airport
Updated: Sat, Dec 24, 2005
Passengers found security checks running smoothly at Will Rogers World Airport on Friday. TSA security rules have been modified to allow small scissors and tools aboard aircraft. Read More
Air marshals acted appropriately
Updated: Fri, Dec 9, 2005
Tragic situation on the tarmac in Miami yesterday . . . Did the air marshals respond correctly, or were they to quick to pull the trigger? Investigators are still sorting things out so anyone who is second guessing the air marshals at this point is being unfair. What the witnesses do seem to agree on is the fact... Read More
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