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Abortion, immigration changes among new 2012 laws
A federal judge this week blocked more controversial parts of the law that would have required police to ask criminal suspects or individuals stopped for traffic violations about immigration status, and made it a crime for illegal immigrants to
Updated: 12/28/2011 04:27P
New abortion, immigration laws in 2012
A federal judge this week blocked more controversial parts of the law that would have required police to ask criminal suspects or individuals stopped for traffic violations about immigration status, and made it a crime for illegal immigrants to
Updated: 12/28/2011 04:26P
Abortion, immigration changes among new 2012 laws
A federal judge this week blocked more controversial parts of the law that would have required police to ask criminal suspects or individuals stopped for traffic violations about immigration status, and made it a crime for illegal immigrants to
Updated: 12/28/2011 03:49P
NATION: Abortion, immigration changes among new 2012 laws
A federal judge this week blocked more controversial parts of the law that would have required police to ask criminal suspects or individuals stopped for traffic violations about immigration status, and made it a crime for illegal immigrants to
Updated: 12/28/2011 03:46P
Abortion, immigration changes among new 2012 laws
A federal judge this week blocked more controversial parts of the law that would have required police to ask criminal suspects or individuals stopped for traffic violations about immigration status, and made it a crime for illegal immigrants to
Updated: 12/28/2011 03:13P
New laws ban happy hour, regulate fire-breathing
A sampling of some other new laws taking effect Jan. 1: - New restrictions govern who can testify as an expert witness in civil and criminal trials in a measure aiming to limit what critics call "junk science" theories of how or why a crime occurred.
Updated: 12/28/2011 01:24P
New laws ban happy hour, regulate fire-breathing
A sampling of some other new laws taking effect Jan. 1: — New restrictions govern who can testify as an expert witness in civil and criminal trials in a measure aiming to limit what critics call "junk science" theories of how or why a crime occurred.
Updated: 12/28/2011 01:24P
Jessica Bruno, Jonathan Matlak are engaged
Miss Bruno is a graduate of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School and earned a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in criminal justice, with a concentration in law, administration and courts, and a minor in sociology, from the John Jay College
Updated: 12/28/2011 10:42A
Corwin Calls for First State Law on Cyber-Bullying
The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that 28 percent of students from the ages of 12 to 18 report bullying; however, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services reports that 42 percent of children have been cyber-bullied,
Updated: 12/28/2011 10:39A
Critics Assail Crime Laws Aimed at People With HIV
NEW YORK -- A man in Texas is serving a 35-year prison sentence for spitting at a police officer — because he has the virus that causes AIDS and his saliva was deemed a deadly weapon. In Michigan, an HIV-positive man who allegedly bit a neighbor during
Updated: 12/28/2011 09:26A