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Pittsford Grill replaces Crystal Barn
Anyone involved with catering or food ordering on a large scale knows it is a complex undertaking. Keeping things straight is critical. Veteran food service professionals Rich Rund, Dan Welch and Duff Rund have built a business from that need.
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:07A
Spaniards vote in local elections amid protests
The largest crowds were in Madrid and Barcelona, but there were also protests in Valencia and smaller cities, protest organizers and Spanish news media reported. The Socialist government did not immediately order the police to move in to disband the
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:06A
Jewish leader slams Belgian minister for Nazi comments
“The fact that a European Justice Minister can claim there should be a statute of limitations for genocide should be unthinkable, and the idea is repugnant.” European Jewish Congress President (EJC) Moshe Kantor blasted Belgian Justice
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:05A
Mubarak deserves mercy
Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar institution, was quoted by German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung's Sunday edition as saying that "mercy should prevail over justice" given Mubarak's achievements and his poor health.
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:04A
Man convicted in sexual assault of teen
The jury returned its verdict last week after deliberating four days. The Chicago Sun-times reports that during the trial, prosecutors contended that 23-year-old Brian Peppers was at a party in February of 2010 when he followed the high school freshman
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Hilary Rawding of Kingston earned a pair of gold medals less than two hours apart and Hilary Coady of Annapolis Royal captured gold and silver medals in the meet at Deerfield Academy. Rawding, a junior at Berkshire, set a personal best of 4:49.15 on
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
Citizen of the Year: Brooks works for justice in and out of courtroom
She took her drive not just into the courtroom, but into the community where she has helped develop everything from a Family Justice Center so that crime victims don't get shuffled from building to building, to community programs to help find solutions
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
Advertiser editorial: Smart on crime
Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb is a vocal proponent of the changes. (See her Alabama Voices guest column on the issue below.) She says the sentencing reform measures would save $106 million in prison costs within five years by putting fewer nonviolent
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
Alabama Voices: A better way
During three decades on the bench I have watched my fellow judges faithfully embrace the task of establishing the truth and seeking justice in the cases that come before them. With humility and determination, Alabama judges apply the
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
Garret FitzGerald, 85, was Irish PM twice
After studying history, French and Spanish at University College, Dublin, Garret FitzGerald qualified as a barrister in 1947, the same year he married Joan O'Farrell, who died in 1999. But he never practiced law, working instead at the national airline
Updated: 05/22/2011 05:03A
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