ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A Florida sheriff's deputy suffered a crushing injury to his arm after rescuing a small gray kitten that had fallen into a storm drain in the town of Dunedin.

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has labeled a group of the world's top oceanography students "security threats" because they applied for a new ID card required to get access to U.S. ports -- even though the agency acknowledges they are not suspected of any terrorism link.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Police in Okaloosa County, Fla., arrested a man on shoplifting charges after he allegedly drank two bottles of hairspray while inside a store.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Homeland Security Department said more than 15,000 people have lobbied the government since February to have their names taken off a terror watch list.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. Homeland Security Department investigator is looking into allegations that security screeners at six airports were tipped off about security tests.

PLEASANTON, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A Pleasanton, Calif., teenager suffered multiple injuries after riding his bicycle off a 25-foot drop in what was described as a "Jackass" stunt.

ATLANTA, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Federal investigators questioned a man in an Atlanta hospital Wednesday about why he jumped from a stationary plane at Atlanta's airport onto the tarmac.

ATLANTA, April 12 (UPI) -- The manager of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta said the Transportation Security Administration wants to cut 400 screeners from his staff.

CINCINNATI, March 28 (UPI) -- Federal agents are investigating how an object that looked like a gun got through the security checkpoint at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.