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Young man accused of impersonating an officer has case set over again (The Western Star)
Issues pertaining to disclosure and eye witness testimony continue to delay the case of a young Pasadena man charged with impersonating a police officer last fall.

Crackdown on dangerous dogs to make microchips compulsory for all (Guardian Unlimited)
All dogs are to be compulsorily microchipped so that their owners can be more easily traced under a crackdown on dangerous dogs to be unveiled today.

Why Thailand still uses discredited bomb detectors (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
A handheld scanner that claims to detect bombs at a distance of 700 meters but has been described by British scientists as a scam continues to stir political controversy in Thailand.

Animal control euthanizes family's cat despite chip (Orlando Sentinel)
Incident raising questions about progress of reform at animal shelter For six weeks, the Coombs family searched in vain for their lost Bengal cat, O'Malley.

Broward animal control killed family cat despite microchip (The Palm Beach Post)
Broward animal control killed family cat despite microchip

Animal control euthanizes family's cat despite chip (Sun-Sentinel)
Incident raising questions about progress of reform at animal shelter For six weeks, the Coombs family searched in vain for their lost leopard-spotted cat, O'Malley. But when Broward County's animal control division found O'Malley in mid-February, it did not notify the Coombs family until after staff euthanized the cat.

Man charged with exposing himself to small children (The Tampa Tribune)
A Wauchula man was released from jail Friday on a $17,000 bond after his arrest for allegedly exposing himself to a 4- and 1-year-old child.

Why Thailand still uses discredited bomb detectors (The Christian Science Monitor)
The governments of Thailand and Britain have deemed the GT200 bomb detector unreliable, but the Thai military continues to use it to make arrests in the Muslim south.

Teens charged in string of Georgetown thefts (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Two teenagers have been charged with a string of thefts in December from automobiles in Georgetown, and they and a third suspect have been charged with breaking into a barn.

Tricorder/ Aliens -motion-tracker handscanner kit gets $6m (The Register)
3D air-bongo mouse shark tech in DARPA cashgasm Roguish Pentagon kill-nerds have decided to spend more than $6m on a miraculous handheld scanner along the lines of a Star Trek Tricorder or Aliens Colonial Marine motion-tracker. The through-walls people detector will work in the same way as the mysterious brain-slime electrofield senses of sharks and manta rays.… Offloading malware protection to ...