MELBOURNE, Australia - December 14, 2010 – U.S. scientists have found flaws in full-body airport scanners they say could let terrorists smuggle guns and explosives onto planes, renewing calls for authorities to consider using alternative screening devices.

Parts of the human body and other benign objects create “noise” that can interfere with the machine’s signals, the research published in the Journal of Transportation Security says.

SEMINOLE, Florida - December 13, 2010 - A SWAT standoff in Seminole is now over, but it appears to have started over some sort of stop sign dispute, Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies said.

At 8:26 Sunday night, deputies say John Breingan, who lives on 72nd Avenue in Seminole, walked out to the street in front of his apartment to confront three people in a vehicle.

OAKLAND, California - December 13, 2010 - A photojournalist claims that UC Berkeley police officers wrongfully arrested and detained him on bogus charges as he covered a student demonstration last year.

David Morse, 42, a photographer for online newspaper Indybay since 2004, arrived at the Berkeley campus on December 11, 2009 to cover a concert, but instead got caught up in a student protest. Morse followed the protestors, photographing them as they made their way up the steps of the Chancellor's house, as a UCPD squad car approached.

WASHINGTON - December 12, 2010 - If you look at the values and the historical record, you will see that the Founding Fathers never intended guns to go unregulated, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer contended Sunday.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Breyer said history stands with the dissenters in the court's decision to overturn a Washington, D.C. handgun ban in the 2008 case D.C. v. Heller.

ANDERSON, South Carolina - December 10, 2010 - A judge says an Anderson hospital can require its employees to get a flu shot.

WASHINGTON - December 10, 2010 - A humiliating TSA pat down that left the Indian Ambassador to the United States livid and insistent that she would never return to Amerika has prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to promise a review of TSA policies in the aftermath of a nationwide revolt against invasive airport security measures.

JUNEAU, Wisconsin - December 9, 2010 - A 17-year-old girl has been charged with child abuse after fighting with an older student at their high school in Wisconsin.