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Photos, story: La Crosse mayor declares state of emergency
Police were asking residents to stay off the streets because traffic was making it difficult for emergency responders to move around the city. "I just saw stuff starting to fly and the lights started flickering. I said, 'Let's get in the basement,"'
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:19A
Objection to Luas plan heard
Peter Sweetman who is objecting to the proposed Luas line via Dawson Street and O'Connell Street told a Bord Pleanla hearing that the European Court of Justice had found Irish legislation in relation to Environmental Impact Assessments was flawed.
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:19A
5 corporate honchos' bail plea quashed
The other corporate accused whose bail plea were rejected included DB Realty promoter Vinod Goenka and Reliance officials Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara, who are in jail since April 20. "All the five bail applications are baseless," Justice Ajit
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:18A
Fest set digs deep
Milla Jovovich, Karolina Kurkova and Jane Fonda raise coin for Haiti with the Artists for Peace and Justice org. Gwen Stefani and Jude Law attend amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Gala. Paul Haggis presided over a celeb-laden dinner and
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:18A
European Arrest Warrant needs proportionality
This gives us a unique insight into the human costs of this fast-track "no questions asked" extradition system, which operates in a region of highly diverse legal systems and vastly differing standards of justice. Half of the approximate 500 requests
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:18A
Changes to city council elections in Warren spark political infighting, heads
The Detroit News reports that a lawsuit to block the change has thrown council races into disarray. A Macomb County Circuit Court judge plans to hear arguments Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by Eugene Sawyer and Dean Berry,
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:18A
Prescott wins judicial review in phone hack scandal
Mr Justice Foskett ruled that the Met's past handling of the News of the World hacking inquiry should be taken to a judicial review. Passing judgment, he said that the former deputy prime minister and his co-applicants had an "arguable case" and he
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:18A
San Francisco supervisors set to make call on Parkmerced project
Opponents of the development, including those from the Parkmerced Action Coalition, have filed appeals to the project's environmental impact report over what they contend are unmitigated problems, such as increased traffic on busy 19th Avenue.
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:17A
Ohio high court ends Brimfield murder lawsuit: Refuses to hear appeal filed by
By Dave O'Brien | Staff Writer The Ohio Supreme Court recently refused to hear a lawsuit filed by the family of a Kent State University student shot dead in Brimfield in 2005 that sought $150 million in damages against Brimfield Township,
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:17A
Tile Layer Gets 13 Years' Jail For Photographer's Death
Justice Datuk Siti Mariah Ahmad ordered the tile layer, who was 17 years and six months old at the time the offence was committed, to serve the sentence from the date of his arrest on May 3, 2007. She also handed down a 11 years' jail sentence on the
Updated: 05/23/2011 07:17A
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