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Colusa finance director disappears; city has deficit
Finance Director Beth Penner disappeared, supposedly on medical leave, after presenting a nearly balanced budget in April, which was not approved due to a number of spreadsheet errors found during the special meeting, city officials said.
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:39A
Shooting of Prenton soldier by rogue Afghan policeman is ruled unlawful by coroner
David Ridley, coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, recorded the verdict following a four-day inquest in Trowbridge. Corporal Steven Boote, 22, from Prenton, and four colleagues were gunned down by an officer, known only as Gulbuddin, whom they were
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:39A
Second wife refused to divorce Webster 'to protect other women'
Felicity Drumm's life had been ruined by her estranged husband, who repeatedly drugged her, stole from her and tried to kill her in a staged car crash. It was after that crash that her family pieced together Webster's evil plot
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:38A
A FORMER policeman has been sent to jail after admitting he falsified
Jason Butler, of Wotton-under-Edge, was yesterday sent to prison for six months after pleading guilty to two counts of perverting the court of justice. Butler, 45, used to be a detective constable with Avon and Somerset Police, and was still working
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:37A
Acadiana's News Leader Players call NFL a 'cartel' in court filing
The players also have a federal antitrust lawsuit against the league pending before Nelson. And attorneys for the players filed documents in US District Court on Friday, opposing a league request for more time to respond to the claim.
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:37A
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Updated: 05/21/2011 03:36A
Lawsuit claims racism at hospital
Patricia Blackburn, David Carpenter, Jacob Dau, Dennis Fant, Bonifacio Fornillos, Akanele Imo, Jose Lopez, Ralph Peterson and Matthew Staley made the allegations in a lawsuit filed this week in US District Court. The plaintiffs – four whites,
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:36A
Jury goes home in wife murder trial
During an eight-day trial at Reading Crown Court, the jury was told that British Airways pilot Robert Brown, 47, bludgeoned millionairess Joanna Brown, 46, formerly of Badger Hill, York, to death with a claw hammer, believing he had been “stitched up”
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:34A
Faculty Profiles: Mr. Elsworth, Mr. McArthur, and Mr. Maddox
Now entering a new phase in his life, Mr. Elsworth plans on “getting things checked off his life checklist,” including applying to graduate programs in environmental engineering, learning to speak Spanish, and traveling. Mr. Elsworth's parting words of
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:34A
'A tragic end to a lifetime of public service'
The sum is the largest claimed by any of the politicians so far convicted over the expenses scandal. Sentencing Morley to 16 months' imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Saunders said he was guilty of “blatant dishonesty” and had “thrown
Updated: 05/21/2011 03:33A
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