Andrew Blake

Retired state trooper kills two during tollbooth robbery before dying in shootout: Police

A retired Pennsylvania state trooper died Sunday morning in a shootout with police moments after he killed two others during an attempted robbery on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

March 21, 2016

Johns Hopkins team cracks encryption for iPhone; Apple vows to fix

As Apple prepares to argue in court this week against being forced to further help investigators access data from a slain terror suspect's iPhone, researchers claim they've found a way to decode encrypted photos and videos sent between devices using the company's most current, supposedly uncrackable operating system.

March 21, 2016

Bradley Podliska, ex-Benghazi investigator, walks back Clinton claim in wrongful-termination suit

Refusing to participate in what had become a partisan probe "hyper-focused" on Hillary Clinton was a big factor in being fired as an investigator for the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Air Force Reserve Maj. Bradley Podliska alleged in a federal lawsuit last year. Late last month, however, his attorneys set that claim aside, leaving lawyers for Congress to say the whole case should be called off.

March 18, 2016

Cars ‘increasingly vulnerable’ to cyberattacks, FBI warns

The growing number of high-tech cars that connect to the Internet is making Americans increasingly at risk of being hacked behind the wheel, the FBI warned Thursday.

March 18, 2016

Rob Ford, former Toronto mayor, surrounded by family in hospital amid cancer fight

Rob Ford, the frequently scandalized former mayor of Toronto, Ontario, was flanked by family members in a Canadian hospital on Thursday as doctors determine the next step in treating a rare form of cancer that forced him out of office, his chief of staff said.

March 18, 2016

Federal judge mulls class action certification in Facebook privacy suit

An attorney representing Facebook users on Wednesday asked a federal judge to certify a class action against the social network over what he called its "continued systematic harvesting of private message content."

March 17, 2016

Chipotle’s social media policy violated federal labor law, judge rules

Chipotle was ordered by an administrative law judge this week to pay lost wages to a former employee who was fired shortly after he criticized the burrito chain through his personal Twitter account.

March 17, 2016

Martin Blackwell could face federal hate crime charge for dousing gay couple with boiling water

Federal hate crime charges could be brought against a Georgia man who admitted to pouring boiling hot water on a gay couple while they slept, authorities in Atlanta said this week.

March 17, 2016

New York man faces 250 years in prison for tricking daughter into sending him child porn

A New York man faces 250 years in prison after pleading guilty this week to over a dozen child pornography counts related to a 2013 blackmail plot in which he tricked his teenage daughter into sending him sexually explicit photographs of herself.

March 17, 2016

Five North Carolina deputies disciplined over actions at Donald Trump rally

A North Carolina sheriff's office said Wednesday that five deputies have been disciplined as a result of their actions during a rally for GOP front-runner Donald Trump a week earlier in which a protester was detained after being sucker punched by another attendee.

March 17, 2016

Denver cops advised not to punch drug-swallowing suspects

The Denver Police Department's official watchdog this week once again urged law enforcement officials not to punch suspects who are believed to be swallowing drugs.

March 16, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s email archive made searchable by WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks, the same group that turned the U.S. State Department on its side by publishing a trove of diplomatic cables beginning in 2010, has Hillary Clinton in its crosshairs once again.

March 16, 2016

Apple says founders ‘would be appalled’ by government’s stance in iPhone case

Apple on Tuesday said the nation's Founding Fathers "would be appalled" by the way the Department of Justice has interpreted a 227-year-old statute in its attempt to access data stored on an iPhone owned by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.

March 16, 2016

Jared Fogle, ex-Subway pitchman, beaten in prison brawl: Report

Disgraced Subway pitchman turned prisoner Jared Fogle was left bloody and beaten by another inmate during a recreation yard brawl earlier this year, TMZ reported Wednesday.

March 16, 2016

Nazi-style salute starts day one of Breivik trial

In his first public appearance since being convicted in 2012 of killing dozens of people a year earlier during the deadliest rampage in Norway this side of World War II, Anders Breivik greeted attendees at a court hearing on Tuesday with a Nazi-style salute.

March 15, 2016

Vladimir Putin says public supports using ‘repressive measures’

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Tuesday that citizens are in favor of using repressive measures against criminals when it's in the public's best interest.

March 15, 2016

China urges FBI to strengthen cybersecurity, counterterrorism cooperation with Beijing

Chinese officials this week urged FBI Director James Comey to strengthen ties with counterparts in Beijing so that the two nations can begin working more closely together on issues related to cybersecurity and counterterrorism.

March 15, 2016

Jason Dalton, Uber driver, blames app for deadly shooting rampage

The Uber driver accused of killing six people and wounding two others during a shooting spree across Kalamazoo, Michigan, last month told investigators that the ride-sharing app had turned him into a "puppet" who had no control over his mind or body during the deadly rampage.

March 15, 2016

Police officer caught on video pepper spraying motorcyclists on busy Texas highway

The Fort Worth Police Department has launched an internal investigation after a six-year veteran of the force was caught on camera discharging pepper spray at dozens of motorcyclists as they rode past his cruiser on a Texas highway Sunday afternoon.

March 15, 2016

Fate of new smoking bill in Virginia rests in governor’s hands

Smoking in the same car as a young child will soon be a finable offense in Virginia if Gov. Terry McAuliffe signs a House bill into law before April 11.

March 15, 2016