Gunman Kills One, Injures Two at Ohio State

A gunman shot three university employees early Tuesday morning on the Columbus campus of Ohio State University, killing one, Ohio State University Police told NBC News.

University police said a suspect was taken into custody after heavily armed campus officers searched the area, just east of Ohio Stadium.

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Fort Worth – Police Chase Leads To Bomb Investigation

UPDATE: From WFAA News

The episode started in Arlington as a road rage incident on the 1,000 block of Abram Street.

“Someone called in to say there was a person in another vehicle who pointed a weapon at them. Officers found that vehicle and tried to conduct a stop but that vehicle did not stop and as a result, officers conducted a pursuit,” said an Arlington Police Department spokeswoman, Tiara Ellis Richard.

The chase went on for 20 minutes but came to an end when the truck spun out on Rosedale.

Officers took into custody a man and a woman.

WFAA has learned that the woman is Kimberly Homsi. She also goes by the name, Asma Al- Homsi.

According to the WFAA story, Al-Homsi has been under surveillance and was on the government’s no fly list, since being involved in a road rage incident back in December 2005. She held up an inert grenade and threatened another driver. Garland’s bomb squad later found ammunition in her car.

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In another story posted on the local NBC News website.

Police: Loop 820 Shut Down Following Road Rage-Related Chase, Bomb Threat

Something a woman said while she was being arrested ended up shutting down Loop 820 for several hours Saturday evening, the FBI said. The feds said they’re familiar with this woman and she has done something like this before.

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A source with the FBI said, while they can’t release the names of the suspects at this time, the woman who made the threat is one of two women involved in an incident at Love Field some time ago. That threat was unfounded.

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The Dallas Morning News covered the 2007 Love Field incident here: Women at Love Field ‘acting suspiciously

NTARC covered the Love Field story in this post in 2007

Women Act Suspiciously At Dallas Love Field

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The initial story.

Loop 820 at Lancaster Avenue is shut down in both directions and police have blocked off streets.

Traffic is backed up in the area.

Fort Worth police say police followed and stopped a suspect. The suspect said there may be a bomb in the vehicle they were driving.

Fort Worth and Arlington bomb squads and arson teams are on the scene and a command center has been set up in the area.

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Associate of Terror Suspect Crashes Car While Followed by FBI

NBCNews New York reports on it’s website that an associate of terror suspect Najibullah Zazi crashed his car Thursday while being followed by the FBI.

Earlier in the day, the FBI again searched the residence of Bosnian immigrant Adis Medunjanin in connection with the ongoing investigation.

Law enforcement sources said that after the search Medunjanin drove off in a car on the Whitestone Expressway and got into an accident with the FBI following close behind.

Prior to the crash, sources say, Medunjanin had called 911 and made a rambling statement.

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According to the new York Times, the FBI had seized Medunjanin’s passport shortly before the accident.

F.B.I. agents on Thursday seized the passport of a Queens man who came under intense scrutiny last year during the investigation of an airport shuttle bus driver who was charged in a Qaeda bomb plot, law enforcement officials and the man’s lawyer said.

About an hour later, a bizarre tableau unfolded as the man, Adis Medunjanin, 25, who was under surveillance by the F.B.I., was involved in a traffic accident while driving near the Whitestone Bridge, perhaps flustered by the surveillance or in an attempt to avoid it, one law enforcement official said. He tried to flee the scene, several people briefed on the matter said, but was captured by the investigators who were following him and later treated for minor injuries at a Queens hospital.

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Napolitano Acknowledges Security System Failed

The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend.

Ms. Napolitano said Monday on NBC’S “Today” that her remark the day before “the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” — had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”

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Company Discovers Marine One Security Breach

A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama’s helicopter, Marine One, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported.

Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employees at an IP address in Tehran.

Tiversa CEO Bob Boback said a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file sharing program on one of their systems that contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One and financial information about the cost of the helicopter.

“We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One,” Boback said.

Boback said the issue most likely stemmed from someone downloading the file-sharing program without realizing the problems that could result.

“When downloading one of these file-sharing programs, you are effectively allowing others around the world to access your hard drive,” Boback told WPXI.

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