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Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's use of campaign funds to pay legal fees OK'd
By Jim Schaefer Kwame Kilpatrick's use of campaign funds to defend himself against criminal charges in the text message scandal was OK under Michigan law, an administrative hearing officer said Friday, prompting an appeal from Secretary of State Ruth
Updated: 02/18/2012 02:01A
Ministerial missteps fuel flood on Twitter
federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews introduced Bill C-30 ("an Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and others Acts") to the House of Commons with little fanfare.
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:54A
Penal posturing
Behn's bill is really about staking out a political position, with hopes of painting his party's November opponents as weak on crime. It's a common tactic. But what's also common are the misguided alterations to Iowa's criminal justice system that
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:51A
Bills would overhaul state FOI laws
Supporters of the law enforcement bill said it is needed to protect crime witnesses and victims. Police agencies across the state are already illegally restricting information, said media lawyer Jay Bender. The Post and Courier obtained a memo from a
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:43A
Modi case: The danger in Justice Suresh's double hearsay
By Kartikeya Tanna Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's criminal culpability in the 2002 Gujarat riots seems to be generating one disclosure after another, each one from quarters hitherto silent. The latest disclosure by Justice Hosbet Suresh,
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:35A
Israeli government must restore dignity to women
In fact, prostitution is one of the only areas that comes to mind in which law-abiding Israeli citizens happily pay into the coffers of organized crime. For this reason, the Knesset made an important and courageous decision on Wednesday when it gave
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:35A
Government must work to restore dignity to Israeli women
In fact, prostitution is one of the only areas that comes to mind in which law-abiding Israeli citizens happily pay into the coffers of organized crime. For this reason, the Knesset made an important and courageous decision on Wednesday when it gave
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:32A
Israeli government must work to restore dignity to women
In fact, prostitution is one of the only areas that comes to mind in which law-abiding Israeli citizens happily pay into the coffers of organized crime. For this reason, the Knesset made an important and courageous decision on Wednesday when it gave
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:30A
Campus crime on the rise: More drugs, alcohol reported in schools
County law enforcement officials say students are bringing prescription pills — often available from their parents' medicine cabinet — to school more frequently. County students committed 4.2 percent more criminal or violent acts from the 2009-10
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:13A
Law and Order
BELLEVILLE > Teacher is charged in sex case • Ryan D. Endsley, 37, who taught math for 15 years at Belleville West High School, was charged Friday with criminal sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a student, then 17, between June 1 and Aug.
Updated: 02/18/2012 01:01A
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