WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 26, 2010 - The United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - December 26, 2010 - An Indianapolis family is outraged after they say two detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department rushed into their home and pointed guns at their children while they searched for a wanted man.

An Indianapolis family is outraged after they say two detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department rushed into their home and pointed guns at their children while they searched for a wanted man.

AUSTIN, Texas - December 23, 2010 - Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.

With a report out Tuesday that the US federal debt went up an amazing $2-trillion dollars in 2010, we have to look at the whole pile of indebtedness and wonder what each of us really owes.

Since the debt is $13.473 trillion, the easy thing to do would be to look at the current U.S. population from the Census Bureau's population clock here, and figure the easy answer would be each and every American is on the hook for $43,390 and change.

SEATTLE, Washington - December 23, 2010 - Recently released footage from a police cruiser's dashboard camera shows the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a partially deaf man by a Seattle police officer.

John T. Williams, a Native American wood carver who was partially deaf, was killed on August 30th after walking past Officer Ian Birk, 27, on the street with a knife in his hand.

PEORIA, Arizona - December 21, 2010 - Peoria could become the first Arizona city to require fingerprinting at pharmacies when picking up prescriptions for commonly abused drugs in an effort to curb an escalating number of fraud cases.

Peoria law-enforcement officials this month proposed an ordinance that would require anyone filling prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin and Percocet to show ID and be fingerprinted at the pharmacy counter, including anyone picking up a prescription for a family member or friend.

TRENTON, New Jersey - December 21, 2010 - A man given seven years in prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced Monday.