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TV Ratings: 'X Factor,' 'Criminal Minds' let FOX, CBS split Wednesday
NBC's "Harry's Law" continued to perform decently overall (8.22 million viewers) and horribly among young viewers (1.2 key demo rating). The CW's "America's Next Top Model" averaged 1.68 million viewers and a 0.8 key demo rating.
Updated: 10/06/2011 12:09P
Austin, Texas Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers Faces Lawsuit
The city did not pass any law forcing abortion business to post signs saying they do not provide comprehensive support for pregnant women seeking non-abortion support and medical care. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and two pro-life
Updated: 10/06/2011 12:05P
Law enforcement Thursday
Michael Lynn Huitt, 32, 120 Lowell St., failure to appear (fourth-degree assault, criminal trespassing, resisting arrest, failure to appear on a criminal citation), held in lieu of $20000 bail. Sheryl Ann Minick, 36, 3113 Bristol Ave.
Updated: 10/06/2011 12:03P
TV Ratings: 'The X Factor' Steady; 'Survivor,' 'Harry's Law' Hit Lows
Criminal Minds (13.3 million, 3.8) rose 6 percent while CSI (11.8 million, 2.9) went the other way, seeing a 6 percent dip -- though the latter won its 10 pm time slot against Revenge and Harry's Law. CBS topped the night in viewers, averaging 11.9
Updated: 10/06/2011 12:02P
Feds say gunsmith thought law made Alaska-built silencers legal
The Anchorage Press reports on an odd federal criminal case that pits the United States government against a large pile of guns confiscated from an Alaska gunsmithing company and the family of its owner and operator, Arnold "Pete" Trottier.
Updated: 10/06/2011 11:50A
Wednesday's Broadcast Ratings: "X Factor" Keeps FOX in Front
Modern Family (0.00%), The Middle (0.00%), America's Next Top Model (0.00%), Hellcats (0.00%), Criminal Minds (-2.80%), Undercovers (-6.30%), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (-7.40%), The Defenders (-16.00%), Law & Order: Los Angeles (-22.60%).
Updated: 10/06/2011 11:44A
Lawyer Sean O'Brien is champion for wrongly convicted
O'Brien is a criminal defense lawyer who works to overturn the prison sentences of innocent inmates. KANSAS CITY -- Sean O'Brien wants to wind down his law practice, but the pleas for help keep coming. Letters from prison inmates regularly fill his
Updated: 10/06/2011 11:37A
Legal considerations in the use of digital video in criminal cases
in law enforcement, such as the use of digitally recorded video from dashboard mounted cameras in patrol cars, comes the challenge of preserving captured video of an incident and having it admitted into evidence at a subsequent criminal trial.
Updated: 10/06/2011 11:32A
Supreme Court rules on protection of sources for blog comments
The Federal Supreme Court recently awarded Schweizer Fernsehen the right to rely on the protection of confidential sources afforded by Article 17(3) of the Constitution and Article 28a(1) of the Criminal Code in refusing to give evidence which could
Updated: 10/06/2011 10:32A
Law and Order: New Culinary Crimes
I'm somewhat shocked and appalled that human behavior allows for recurring blog posts on criminal behavior involving food. Not that I'm one to complain about my muse. The month of September alone was rife with new shenanigans, and a couple of
Updated: 10/06/2011 10:30A
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