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Some uncomfortable with new rule allowing pocket knives on planes
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comClarence Witmer Jr. of Greencastle, Pa., will fly from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Oklahoma City this week. The new rule allowing pocket knives in carry-on luggage on commercial flights will not yet have gone into effect, but the...Tags: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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9/11 a dividing line in the history of security practices
heather.keels@herald-mail.comThere was the walk-through metal detector. There was the X-ray machine for carry-on bags. There were even patdowns for passengers who preferred not to walk through the detector. But in other ways, airport security in that now long-ago world of "pre-9/11"...Tags: Defense, Travel, Health, John Wesley, Transportation
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A view of the world on a trip to Georgia
A few weeks ago, I was headed for BWI Airport on my way to Columbus, Ga. I always seem to get a little excited when I fly, for some reason. Perhaps it’s the anticipation of going through the security process at the airport. I’m sure you&...Tags: Afghanistan, Alabama, Maryland, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Israel
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Bomb experts check out potential airport threats
About once a day, a passenger at one of South Florida's three major airports tries to take an item through security that could be mistaken for a bomb. Rather than evacuate terminals and alert police bomb squads, the Transportation Security...
Tags: Weaponry, Automotive Equipment, U.S. Army, Explosions, Medical Procedures and Tests
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ODD: TSA agents stop Chewbacca actor over light saber
DENVER (AP) — Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel. Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver briefly stopped "Star Wars" franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as...
Tags: Media Industry, Celebrities
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TSA removes 'nude scanners' from airports
The "nude scanners" are gone. The full-body scanners that used X-rays to create what looks like a nude image of passengers have been packed away and removed from airports across the country. The 250 or so machines were removed about two weeks ago,...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Los Angeles International Airport, Interior Policy
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TSA chief defends allowing knives on planes
Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole has delayed a plan to let passengers carry small pocketknives on planes for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But it is clear from a speech he gave last week at George...
Tags: United Nations, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Los Angeles International Airport, Air Transportation Industry
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Goodbye 'nude scanners.' Hello new headache.
There’s no appeasing the paranoid, it seems. The Transportation Security Administration has done away with its controversial “nude scanners,” which took full-body X-rays of passengers to ensure no one would board a plane with hidden...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, X-rays
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LETTER: TSA Agents Bollixed By Artificial Hip?
We arrived at Bradley airport for an 8 a.m. departure. Since I am 85, I know that I do not have to remove my shoes (a difficult process with an artificial hip). But the TSA agent insisted, and we argued for several minutes. He called a second agent for... -
Almost a 'Trusted Traveler': Are the airport hassles behind her now?
I'm a step closer to Trusted Traveler status. In a post that ran May 17, I wrote that I had received conditional approval for the Trusted Traveler program as part of the Global Entry system but that the earliest available appointment was Aug. 6....
Tags: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Media Industry, Transportation Industry, Insider Trading
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TSA stops another gun at OIA
A woman escorting a passenger to a flight at Orlando International Airport was arrested Thursday morning for carrying a loaded handgun through security, records show. A Transportation Security Administration officer discovered the .380-caliber pistol...
Tags: Orlando Police Department, Orlando International Airport, Firearms
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