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These could be the top 20 dividend stocks to own this year

From The Passive Income Earner:

I have a brand new stock in my value screening this month! It’s a relatively new dividend-paying company, an innovative and a trend-setting company. It’s also massive and was the largest company in the world until the company failed to impress investors. Guess it yet? Yes, I am tracking Apple and it’s on the list of value stock at the moment.

Top 20 Dividend Stocks – Technical [...]

TSA drug smugglers were busted after undercover operation set up when bungling cocaine-runner went to wrong terminal

Four current and former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been charged with drug trafficking and bribery – after a suspected drug courier inspired a sting against them.

Duane Eleby was all set to sneak 10 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport last February, with the help of a former TSA staff member.

Alas for him, he bungled the operation and went to the wrong terminal [...]

Military may get faster airport screening… The House gave final congressional approval by voice vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the military on official travel, and their families, would move through airport security quicker next year under legislation sent to the president on Tuesday.

The House gave final congressional approval by voice vote.

If signed into law, the expedited screening would not take place immediately. The Homeland Security Department would have six months to devise a preference system for the armed forces. Some of the earliest beneficiaries [...]

Breast cancer patient denied Medicaid coverage … because of his gender

Raymond Johnson (WCIV)

Disease does not discriminate, but apparently Medicaid coverage does.

A 26-year-old South Carolina tile-layer has found himself with breast cancer and out of luck for one reason: He is a man. While breast cancer affects an estimated 2,000 American males annually, Medicaid does not cover treatment of the disease in men.

Raymond Johnson does not make enough money to afford the five-figure price of the treatment his cancer [...]

A local woman suing the dating website Match.com after an alleged rape is expected to be in court Monday afternoon

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Attorneys for a local woman who is suing Match.com after an alleged rape will be in court Monday.

Carol Markin, 53, wants the dating website to stop accepting new members until a sexual predator screening system is installed.

Markin revealed her identity on ABC’s Good Morning America last month. Markin says she was raped by 67-year-old Alan Paul Wurtzel, a man she met on Match.com. [...]

Report: Woman Sues Match.com Over Assault

Millions of people swear by online dating sites like Match.com, but a California entertainment executive claims the website is responsible for her sexual attack.

The woman, publically identified only as Jane Doe, is filing a civil lawsuit asking a court to force Match.com to install a sex offender screening program that scans a members’ background when they sign up for the site. The lawsuit asks for a [...]

REVEALED: TSA Plan To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers

by Andy Greenberg, Forbes

A sample streetside scan image from American Sciences & Engineering.

Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and [...]