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CBS 3 Springfield - WSHMHealth care law looms over new Supreme Court term
Entertainment News from AP By MARK SHERMAN AP WASHINGTON (AP) - The nine justices of the Supreme Court, who serve without seeking election, soon will have to decide whether to insert themselves into the center of the presidential campaign next year.
Updated: 10/01/2011 09:14A
New Teen Sexting Law Now in Effect
As a new teen sexting law goes into effect Saturday, will the change reducing the penalty for the first infraction make it easier to enforce? The new law reduces the punishment for the first conviction: a non-criminal offense,
Updated: 10/01/2011 08:03A
New Teen Sexting Law in Effect Saturday
As a new teen sexting law goes into effect Saturday, will the change reducing the penalty for the first infraction make it easier to enforce? The new law reduces the punishment for the first conviction: a non-criminal offense,
Updated: 10/01/2011 08:01A
New sentencing law went into effect Friday
Under House Bill 86, inmates who complete education and certain programs will be eligible to get out of prison early. Under this new provision many nonviolent drug offenders won't go to prison at all and property theft of less than $1000 will no longer
Updated: 10/01/2011 07:44A
Nationwide ICE crackdown lands several in Whitfield jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials led the national “Cross Check” which they said was targeted at removing “criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators.” Determining exactly who was arrested in the crackdown and what crimes
Updated: 10/01/2011 07:35A
ICC in talks with Interpol to fight corruption
"The more we tighten up around international events and fixtures, the greater the potential risk … that these criminal people will focus elsewhere," Flanagan said. "I think we must be guarded against that." At a World Sports Law Report conference,
Updated: 10/01/2011 06:03A
LRSC to offer peace officer training in Minot
AP People interested in a law enforcement career can now get a criminal justice degree and also law officer certification through Minot State University. The school is partnering with Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, the Minot Police
Updated: 10/01/2011 05:54A
Law & Order: 8 Arrested On Court Warrants
David Ward, 30, of Haverstraw, turned himself in to Haverstraw police Monday on a warrant issued in Rockland County Court in New City on a charge of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, and was turned over to
Updated: 10/01/2011 05:36A
PHL launches Miriam's int'l crime court candidature in NY
one of her many publications on international law published by the University of the Philippines Law Center in 1977. “The establishment of an international criminal court with jurisdiction over international crimes… has been repeatedly recommended.
Updated: 10/01/2011 04:48A
Chinese Dissident: Law Change Will Ramp up 'Gestapo-like' Policing
Proposed amendments to China's Criminal Procedure Code will only lead to more “Gestapo-like” police abuses, a prominent rights activist wrote in a recent public letter to the National People's Congress. Having only been released in June
Updated: 10/01/2011 04:47A
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