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NYC, suburbs get $20M in terror funding

A last-minute influx of $20 million from Congress will be used to beef up a system of detectors around New York City and the suburbs, aimed at uncovering nuclear weapons and radiological "dirty bombs," officials said yesterday.

While law enforcement officials don't believe there's any imminent threat terrorists will use such devices, the specter of a stolen nuclear bomb or radiological explosion...

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