Bedbug bites helped drive a 21-year-old McAdoo man from a halfway house where he had been ordered to stay for harassing former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, his father said Thursday. Shawn Christy walked out of the Scranton Catholic Charity Center on Nov. 20 because he received more than 300 bedbug bites, his father, Craig Christy, said when explaining the family's version of events that led U.S. Marshals to arrest their son Wednesday. "They just blew the story out of proportion," Craig Christy said. The U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement that Christy fled his home and possessed a knife when deputies ran him down Wednesday morning. Deputies found him after they received a lead from authorities in Alaska. The warrant issued for Christy said he abused a worker verbally and damaged property at the halfway house. His father agrees partly with the statement from the Marshal's Office and the description of events in the warrant: His son had a knife, which ...

U.S. Marshals arrested a McAdoo man Wednesday on a violation of his parole for threats against former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Shawn Christy, 21, of South Harrison Street, McAdoo, was taken into custody by members of the U.S. Marshals Service based in Scranton for allegedly violating a condition of federal parole. Christy was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 8 to five years of probation for making harassing telephone calls to the law firm that represented Palin. He and his father, Craig Christy, were charged with making calls threatening Palin and her attorneys. Both Christys pleaded guilty to the charges. As a condition of the five years probation, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess ordered Shawn Christy to spend up to six months in a community re-entry program at a Scranton residential facility. Christy had his federal probation supervision transferred from the District of Alaska to the Middle District of Pennsylvania ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A man convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers has been arrested in northeastern Pennsylvania on a probation violation charge. The U.S. Marshals Service arrested 21-year-old Shawn Christy in McAdoo after a brief foot chase Wednesday morning. Authorities say he walked away from a community re-entry program in Scranton without approval, was verbally abusive toward staff, and damaged the facility. Christy was sentenced in June to five years' probation after he and his father pleaded guilty to making harassing phone calls to Palin's attorneys. Shawn Christy was also ordered to spend up to six months at the Scranton Catholic Charity Center. Prosecutors have said the Christys threatened both the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate and her attorneys. A federal magistrate ordered Shawn Christy to be held pending extradition to Alaska. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,...

Ive got a suggestion for cutting short the GOPs postelection angst: Sarah Palin for president in 2016. You think Im joking? Think again. In 2008, Palin, running as my partys vice presidential candidate, was widely supposed to have cost John McCain the election. But that wasnt so. A national exit Get Subscriber Content access to read this story To read the full story, you need Subscriber Content access. Subscribe to The Dallas Morning News, Briefing, Al Dia or The Denton Record-Chronicle and enjoy Subscriber Content on dallasnews.com and our tablet and smartphone applications. Subscribe Now | Link Your Subscriber Account To continue reading, please sign in below. To read the full story, you need Subscriber Content access. Subscribe to The Dallas Morning News, Briefing, Al Dia or The Denton Record-Chronicle and enjoy Subscriber Content on dallasnews.com. As a valued subscriber to The Dallas Morning News , you can receive full access to dallasnews.com, eEdition, and Subscriber Co...

For one day each year, the turkey gets its time to shine. While most of that shining is done quite literally, as the glazed centerpiece of Thanksgiving feasts around the nation, a few fortunate foul are granted pardons and given a chance to live out their not-so-long lives in greener pastures, awkwardly bobbing their heads, crying gobble-gobble and whatever else it is that turkeys do. Those symbolic pardons may make the turkey eaters among us feel somewhat better about stuffing our faces with coma-inducing amounts of gravy-smothered poultry, yet during one such event in 2008, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) managed to tear the mask (or head?) off the whole charade. We'll call it the greatest turkey-related disaster in the history of politics. Fresh off a defeat in the 2008 presidential election, Palin headed to a turkey farm in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, to pard...

The only way to save the battered and directionless Republican Party is to have Sarah Palin run for president in 2016, according to the Los Angeles Times ' Charlotte Allen , who swears she's not joking. Mitt Romney got fewer votes than John McCain did four years ago, Allen writes, and he faltered because he was too focused on serious economic issues. A lot of voters don't care about serious issues. "What they a group sometimes euphemistically called ' uninformed voters ' do know and care about are the tugs on their emotions, fears, revulsions and heart strings provided by hours and hours of uninterrupted television watching," Allen writes. What these unserious voters need is an unserious candidate, she says. We agree, and we're one-upping her: What America needs is a ticket even more " Ellen -ready," to use Allen's term: Meghan McCain and Bristol Palin . RELATED: Bristol Palin's Bar Fight Zinger: I Can Tell You're Gay Sara...

The lawyer, Robert Barnett of Williams & Connolly, is known for negotiating book deals for the political elite, from President Barack Obama to one-time vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Mr Barnett will help Mr Petraeus as he exits government, according to Reuters news agency, which confirmed a Politico report. The Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and Congress are investigating Mr Petraeus' conduct over the extra-marital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. In that time, he has built an unconventional practice representing best-selling authors, political leaders, television news correspondents and other high-profile clients. In addition to Mr Obama and Mrs Palin, other authors he has represented include novelist Mary Higgins Clark and entertainer Barbra Streisand. He has also helped former government officials from across the political spectrum navigate their return to private life, including former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, ...