Read more airport security stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7044/airport-security.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:06:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72250/airport-guard-arrested-over-obama-threats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Obama before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart yesterday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several...http://www.newser.com/story/72250/airport-guard-arrested-over-obama-threats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 14:54:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69952/airport-seize-your-stuff-look-for-it-on-ebay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrom knives to baseball bats to cake-cutters to corkscrews, and including at least one kitchen sink, the Transportation Security Administration confiscates around a million items from air travelers every month, CNN reports. Guns are turned over to law enforcement and shampoo bottles end up in the trash, but the rest...http://www.newser.com/story/69952/airport-seize-your-stuff-look-for-it-on-ebay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 8:19:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69742/airports-crack-down-on-powder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAir travelers have yet another thing to worry about when packing their bags: powder. Federal authorities haven’t banned or even restricted baby powder, makeup, talcum powder, and the like, but the TSA is outfitting airports around the country with new kits to test such seemingly innocuous material for explosives. If...http://www.newser.com/story/69742/airports-crack-down-on-powder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 13:06:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69202/8-years-on-critics-call-airport-security-theater.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBillions of dollars in spending since 9/11 has given airport security officers plenty of ways to catch terrorists—but are critics right in calling it "security theater"? Take the “millimeter wave whole body imager,” which pinpoint “anomalies” on your person: Sure, it will spot a handgun, or a sharp object,...http://www.newser.com/story/69202/8-years-on-critics-call-airport-security-theater.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 18:17:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68852/suicide-bomb-rocks-nato-base-at-kabul-airport.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA suicide bomber blew up his car outside a NATO military base at Afghanistan's main airport today, killing at least two civilians and wounding six others, Reuters reports. Eyewitnesses saw huge flames rising from the airport, which has endured Taliban rocket attacks and suicide bombs in the past. An Afghan...http://www.newser.com/story/68852/suicide-bomb-rocks-nato-base-at-kabul-airport.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 5:48:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66788/booking-a-flight-get-ready-to-state-sex-and-age.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAir passengers booking flights in the US can expect some extra questions starting this weekend, the Washington Post reports. Travelers will be asked for their sex and birth date, which will be forwarded along with other information to federal officials checking watch lists. The move comes as the Transportation Security...http://www.newser.com/story/66788/booking-a-flight-get-ready-to-state-sex-and-age.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 7:31:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66547/47-trapped-on-9-hour-nightmare-flight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf 9 hours on a grounded puddle-jumper with screaming babies and the scent of overly busy toilets wafting through cramped aisles sounds like your idea of a good time, then Continental Airlines had your ticket to paradise. When storms forced a Minneapolis-bound flight to divert to Rochester, Minn., on Friday,...http://www.newser.com/story/66547/47-trapped-on-9-hour-nightmare-flight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 10:24:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65860/spaced-out-laguardia-suspect-identified.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice have identified the man who staged a bomb scare this morning at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the New York Daily News reports. Before his run-in with police, Scott McGann, 32, had already attracted the attention of observers by appearing “intoxicated” and “spaced out.” Cops tackled McGann at a security...http://www.newser.com/story/65860/spaced-out-laguardia-suspect-identified.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 15:13:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65845/laguardia-evacuated-fake-bomb-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe main terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was evacuated this morning, stranding hundreds of passengers, after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, the AP reports. The terminal was evacuated at around 5:30am after the man approached security in the airport's C concourse....http://www.newser.com/story/65845/laguardia-evacuated-fake-bomb-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 8:45:44 CDT