Orlando Hotusing was serious about public safety. Flashing a badge and identification card, police say the 48-year-old identified himself as a federal air marshal, patrolling his Mesa apartment complex, performing traffic stops and once getting into a vehicle pursuit.

WASHINGTON - Federal air marshals are expanding their work beyond airplanes, launching counterterror surveillance at train stations and other mass transit facilities in a three-day test program.

MIAMI - An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was about to take off, officials said. No bomb was found.

Last spring, the Bush administration approached Congress about cutting the budget for air marshals by 20 percent and was rebuffed.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is shuffling its homeland security operation to make 5,000 more armed agents available to protect commercial flights.

A Mesa man has been arrested for allegedly helping a federal fugitive flee the country.

January 26, 2005

WASHINGTON - AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C., when he talked about the safest place to sit on an airplane.

Allegiant Air made its flight service debut at the newly named Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport on Thursday amid smiling passengers, economic optimism and the traditional water hose greeting by Mesa Fire Department trucks at the airport terminal.

PITTSBURGH - Federal air marshals charged a Seattle-area man with groping a female passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that the pilot diverted to Pittsburgh because of the disturbance.

DENVER - A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane discharged as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities said Monday.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A US Airways passenger jet on a flight to Charlotte, N.C., Friday was diverted to Oklahoma City after a federal air marshal subdued a passenger who was involved in an incident with a flight attendant, a spokesman for the airline said.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A US Airways passenger jet on a flight to Charlotte, N.C., Friday was diverted to Oklahoma City after a federal air marshal subdued a passenger who was involved in an incident with a flight attendant, a spokesman for the airline said.

A search for the bodies of two men feared dead in a plane crash at Lake Pleasant north of Phoenix has been suspended, frustrating family members who are looking for closure.

A man sought in the stabbing death of a Tempe woman in 2001 was captured Thursday in Buenos Aires by Argentinean authorities.

WASHINGTON - Airline passengers will be allowed to carry small scissors and tools onto planes, reversing a rule that led to confiscation of many thousands of sharp objects at airports since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a Homeland Security Department official said Wednesday.

A Mesa man was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for helping a member of the Hell's Angels who was facing murder and other felony charges to obtain a fake passport and flee the country.

Mesa’s Williams Gateway Airport signed its first operating agreement for regular passenger service Wednesday. Vision Air plans to offer up to four flights a week to Las Vegas early next year.

Mesa’s Williams Gateway Airport signed its first operating agreement for regular passenger service Wednesday. Vision Air plans to offer up to four flights a week to Las Vegas early next year.

NEW ORLEANS - A day before President Bush headed to the hurricane-ravaged South, Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station "they don't have a clue what's going on down here."

Federal authorities approved using electric stun guns on commercial aircraft in the United States, shooting Scottsdale-based Taser International’s stock price up nearly 17 percent Monday.

Three days after a small plane rented in Scottsdale crashed into Lake Pleasant, divers resumed their search on Monday for wreckage and the bodies of the two men believed to be aboard.

Freedom Wireless sues Cingular, Alltel: Freedom Wireless said Friday it filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Cingular Wireless and Alltel Corp.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophetess doomed to tell the truth always but never to be believed.