FTSA

The federal Transportation Security Administration instituted the ban last week after investigators in London said they uncovered a plot to blow up several U.S.-bound jets with liquid explosives.

House Bill 1937 would have made it a misdemeanor offense for a federal Transportation Security Administration agent to "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly [touch] the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast" of a person going through airport security.

Federal Transportation Security Administration workers found the item at approximately 0930 local time, and the discover led to the evacuation of the terminal with firefighters, police and a bomb squad being called to the airport, The Associated Press said.

Federal agencies did not want to stall flights across the country Friday, so they let airlines decide where and when to conduct the searches during the 24 hours, said Don Barker, a Eugene-based security director for the federal Transportation Security Administration

The airport authority reportedly wants to spend USD3m on another checkpoint in the commuter terminal, but the plans have to be approved by the federal Transportation Security Administration as well as by the airlines.

Instead of checking in first with airline ticket agents, travelers get in line in front of the check-in counters and give their bags to federal Transportation Security Administration workers.

The incidents closed terminals six, seven, eight and the Tom Bradley International Terminal but were not linked to terrorism according to the Federal Transportation Security Administration.

Instead, airport users now will start by handing their luggage to federal Transportation Security Administration workers, who will conduct tests to see if the bags contain explosive materials.

A federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener detected the weapon as the man's coat and shoes were passed through an X-ray machine.

The federal Transportation Security Administration has taken over responsibility for security screening at the airport including a second security lane, almost eliminating the wait time to get through to boarding gates.

He then said something to a federal Transportation Security Administration employee before firing a shot at the ceiling and a second which struck the floor.