The Transportation Security Administration is moving to fire more than 30 of its security personnel at Hawaii’s Honolulu International Airport after the discovery late last year that they were not properly screening checked bags for bombs, the TSA said Friday. A dozen more TSA workers face suspension, the TSA said. Those slated for firing included workers responsible for the actual screening, several supervisors and the federal security director for the Honolulu airport, the TSA said. “TSA holds its workforce to the highest ethical standards and we will not tolerate employees who in any way compromise the security of the traveling public,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement announcing the actions. Read full article > >

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One of President Obama’s oldest friends, Robert Titcomb, was arrested Monday in Honolulu for soliciting a prostitute. He has since been released on $500 bail. Titcomb, 49, attended the Punahou School in Honolulu with Obama in the 1970s, and the pair…

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