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Editorial: A win for the public's right to know
The decision by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday to side with the Burbank Leader in its lawsuit to force Burbank officials to divulge per-employee bonus payouts should serve as notice to local governments: The public has a right to
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:44P
Recount: Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice won re-election
Unofficial results from a statewide recount show incumbent Justice David Prosser has defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in a race that became as much about Republican Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining bill as the state Supreme Court.
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:44P
Pit Stop to Hamptons
This year, denizens of the beach will have to travel a little farther for their chicken satay skewers, ie to Jericho, Long Island. Owner Stratis Morfogen opened a Philippe there late last fall, a quarter mile off of the Long Island Expressway in a
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:43P
HC vacates stay on teachers eligibility test
A bench, comprising chief justice Arun Kumar Mishra and justice Kailash Chandra Joshi, had been hearing the arguments continuously for the past four days clubbing all the writ petitions filed to challenge the RTET. The criteria pertaining to the
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:43P
Recount: Justice Prosser Has Won Re-election
(AP) -- Unofficial results from a statewide recount show incumbent Justice David Prosser has defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in a race that became as much about Republican Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining bill as the state Supreme Court
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:43P
Considering the future of Louisiana's levees
Branches heavy with Spanish moss draped over the bayou, and forests covered marshes that are bare now except for the bony skeletons of dead cypress trees. Eighty miles away, tourists and locals gather atop a levee in New Orleans to gape at the
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:43P
Lobbyist faces criminal charges linked to Senate sex scandal
Public attention later focused on revelations that Ensign's parents gave the Hamptons a $96000 payment about the time that the couple left their jobs with Ensign's office in the wake of the affair, but well before that affair became public knowledge.
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:43P
Feds to investigate third-party airline ticket sellers
The airline says it will cooperate with the Justice Department's probe into whether global distribution systems that sell airline tickets on the internet violated anti-trust laws. This comes after American Airlines filed a lawsuit against the Orbitz
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:42P
Feds to investigate third-party airline ticket sellers
The airline says it will cooperate with the Justice Department's probe into whether global distribution systems that sell airline tickets on the internet violated anti-trust laws. This comes after American Airlines filed a lawsuit against the Orbitz
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:42P
Players' unions want NFL lockout lifted
In their brief Friday, the players' associations said "there is no off-season in professional sports — only the portion of the work year during which no games are played." The unions said that part of the year brings opportunities — such as the option
Updated: 05/20/2011 07:42P