Prototype Shoe Explosive Scanner Pulled From Service

The U.S. Homeland Security Department says GE Security's shoe scanner does not meet minimum detection standards for widespread use at U.S. airports and has halted use of a prototype scanner at Orlando International Airport. "While significant improvements were made," the TSA says, following tests...

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