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'Click It or Ticket' starting today
Coordinated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the campaign is a national effort to encourage motorists to obey the law and buckle up, both day and night. Statistics show drivers on the road between 6 pm and 5:59 am are the least
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:02A
Somali pirates go on trial in S Korea
Earlier this month a Spanish court sentenced two Somalis to jail terms totalling 439 years each for their role in the hijacking of a fishing trawler and its crew in 2009. In February a Malaysian court charged seven suspected Somali pirates with firing
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:01A
Suit seeks to stop drilling in national forest
A federal lawsuit filed in Arkansas seeks to stop natural-gas exploration-production on 1m acres in the Ozark National Forest and beneath Greers Ferry Lake. The suit also looks to bar US agencies from issuing new drilling permits in the impacted areas.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:01A
Small plane crashes in Coweta County, Ga.
(AP) ” Investigators are trying to determine why a small plane with two people aboard crashed. The Federal Aviation Administration says the experimental plane crashed Sunday night in rural Coweta County. The FAA's Kathleen Bergen says no one was
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:00A
AP Enterprise: States' immigration efforts fizzle
Many measures were set aside so lawmakers could focus on pressing budget crises, but immigrants have also developed more sophisticated lobbying efforts, and business owners came out strongly against tougher sanctions. Some worried about losing sources
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:00A
Comments on the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark insolvency decision in Ted
The ETA states that it takes precedence over any other enactment of Canada or a province other than the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA). While the ETA only provides an exception for the BIA, both the BIA and the CCAA contain provisions nullifying
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:00A
Comments on the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark insolvency decision in Ted
The ETA states that it takes precedence over any other enactment of Canada or a province other than the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA). While the ETA only provides an exception for the BIA, both the BIA and the CCAA contain provisions nullifying
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:00A
Italy outrage at S&P's outlook verdict
An indignant Giulio Tremonti, the country's finance minister, suggested the decision by Standard and Poor's, which makes a formal credit cut more likely, was unjustified. Tremonti said that there is not "even one example of a decline in the economy or
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:59A
Dish puts new unit to work on sales
Colorado-based Dish Network took ownership of Blockbuster LLC after winning an April bankruptcy auction. Blockbuster, which closed almost half its stores during six months in bankruptcy, moved its headquarters this month from downtown Dallas into its
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:59A
Here We Go Again: Operation In Our Sites Round 4 Kicks Off With More Domains
But, even if you could read the law in the extreme manner suggested by ICE and the Justice Department, it doesn't change the fact that these seizures are improper under the Constitution. It's pretty sad, because Homeland Security and the Justice
Updated: 05/23/2011 05:57A
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