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Nationwide Terror Attacks? Boston, California, D.C.?

by WashingtonsBlog

 

You know about the Boston terror attack.

There have also been terrorist incidents in which no one has been hurt in California and Washington D.C.

Specifically, CNN reports that an envelope containing the lethal poison Ricin was mailed to Capitol Hill. It was addressed to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, but was intercepted at the U.S. Capitol’s off-site mail facility in Washington.

And CBS San Francisco, ABC 7, KTVU, NBC Bay Area, the San Jose Mercury [...]

Broke U.S. Postal Service paying $2M for conference, golf, party

Four hundred U.S. Postal Service executives are heading to San Francisco next month for workshops, meetings — and a dance party.

 

And a golf tournament. And a dinner event.

 

That’s according to a report by KTVU, which found 400 USPS staffers, including the postmaster general, are set to attend the four-day National Postal Forum in March at the Moscone Center in California.

 

The trip is expected to cost the flailing agency — which [...]

Utah to Ban Target Shooting hello Police State!!

By PAUL FOY

The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY —

Utah’s state forester announced a ban Tuesday on target shooting in some rural areas in the first-ever initiative of its kind.

Dick Buehler said the ban will take effect Wednesday for specific target-shooting sites on public or private land in Cache, Davis, Summit and Utah counties.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/ap/environment/utah-to-ban-target-shooting-because-of-fire-hazard/nPpxY/

GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT CA UNIVERSITY

KTVU And Wires

OAKLAND, Calif. —

Seven people were killed and three others wounded after a disgruntled student walked into a classroom at a small independent university located near the Oakland airport and opened fire.

Police confirmed that a suspect was taken in custody in the parking lot of a shopping mall in nearby Alameda. Sources have told KTVU that the gunman walked into a Safeway store and told someone he had just [...]