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Alaska considers new approach to fetal alcohol problems among criminal court
R-Anchorage, worked with a statewide coalition from various professions called the Alaska FASD Partnership to craft the bill in response to the large number of people affected by the fetal alcohol disorders in the criminal justice system.
Updated: 03/03/2012 12:04P
MF Global: Crime, Comedy and the Cover-Up
Fox Business News had people in stitches when it reported that federal investigators are saying that this wasn't criminal, it's just a matter of sloppy bookkeeping. The habitual filching of customers' funds -- even if the funds are later replaced
Updated: 03/03/2012 11:48A
James Q. Wilson, 1931-2012
In the 1960s and 1970s, law enforcement had tended to shrug off minor urban disorder: street-corner drinking, graffiti. Those were years of rising crime, and law enforcement officials thought it most rational to focus resources on the most dangerous
Updated: 03/03/2012 11:21A
Breaking down the potential legal fallout of Saints' bounty system
Their real worries, however, may come in court rooms, as the bounty system arguably broke the law. SI.com legal analyst Michael McCann breaks down the potential legal fallout. The bounty system implicates at least two types of criminal charges: battery
Updated: 03/03/2012 10:57A
Michael McCann: Breaking down the potential legal fallout of Saints' bounty system
Their real worries, however, may come in court rooms, as the bounty system arguably broke the law. SI.com legal analyst Michael McCann breaks down the potential legal fallout. The bounty system implicates at least two types of criminal charges: battery
Updated: 03/03/2012 10:56A
IG-FC vows a crime-free Quetta
QUETTA: Inspector General of Frontier Corps Balochistan Major General Obaidullah Khan Khatak said on Saturday that FC along with police and other law enforcers were jointly working on the lines to declare Quetta as crime free city.
Updated: 03/03/2012 08:16A
Crestview Council charged with Sunshine Law violations
CRESTVIEW — All five members of the City Council have been charged with violating Florida's Sun-shine Law. The charges are considered “non-criminal violations” which, Councilman Phillip Berezo told the Crestview News Bulletin, amounted to being issued
Updated: 03/03/2012 08:06A
UN Faults NATO and Libyan Authorities in Report
But the armed anti-Qaddafi militia forces in Libya also “committed serious violations,” including war crimes and breaches of international rights law that continue today, the 220-page report said. Through this past January, militia members continued
Updated: 03/03/2012 07:55A
Sheriff: Flegm instrumental in county's crime-fighting efforts
As your Crawford County sheriff, I believe I am in a particularly good position to know who has been working for the interest of the citizens of Crawford County in this fight against crime and drugs. You learn real quickly the difference between
Updated: 03/03/2012 07:38A
Obama's birth certificate COULD be forged, says Sheriff Joe Arpaio
By AP America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff finds himself entangled these days in his own thorny legal troubles: a federal grand jury probe over alleged abuse of power, Justice Department accusations of racial profiling and revelations that his
Updated: 03/03/2012 07:36A
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