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Video of fatal pursuit released
You can see what happens after Lopez misses the spikes but then hits the officer's patrol car which was parked on the ramp to keep traffic off the interstate. The high impact collision left a cloud of smoke and sent debris and tires flying.
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:43P
California must cut prison population by 34000 over two years
Justice Anthony Kennedy says there's no choice than to order the release of more prisoners. The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in US history. Kennedy, a California native, provided the swing vote, saying the state's
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:42P
Call for Lehman creditors to reveal positions
A group of hedge funds and pension funds opposing the Lehman estate's bankruptcy plan has asked the court to force many Lehman Brothers creditors – including banks such as Goldman Sachs – to reveal their current holdings of
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:42P
Lutherville magician charged with child sex crime in Florida
Members of the Lake County Sheriff's Office cyber crime division said in a statement that Kalin contacted them in January through an Internet chat line, using the name “Ben Aldridge.” The detectives posed both as a 14-year-old boy and as the boy's
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:41P
Casey Anthony Trial: Strong Forensic Evidence from Car But No Cause of Death
When opening statements begin in Casey Anthony's murder trial Tuesday, what will Anthony's defense team be fighting for: exoneration or a guilty verdict that avoids the death penalty? Anthony, 25, is accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:40P
Sheriff's Office Taking Part in Click it or Ticket Campaign
Thanks to awareness campaigns such as this, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that seat belt use reached 85 percent in 2010, up one percent from 2009. Despite such progress, of the 23382 vehicle occupants were killed in
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:40P
Push to keep homeless out of remand
Now, to fix what it calls a glitch in the system, social justice support group Jesuit Social Services has called for bail hostels to be established in Melbourne to house young people on remand. The teenager, who asked not to be named, had spent months
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:39P
Feds reviewing Indiana law targeting Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood argues in a federal lawsuit that statute is unconstitutional. Cockrum also noted that the secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, which oversees Medicaid in Indiana, said last month that the law could
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:39P
Match.com Sex Lawsuit Sent Back To State Court
Los Angeles - In what is being billed as a victory for a woman who says she was raped by a man she met on Match.com, a federal judge today sent her lawsuit against the Internet dating site back to state court. Lawyers for television/film producer
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:37P
Magistrate with bipolar loses court case
Since being diagnosed with the mental condition in 2010, Mr Maloney has been taking medication and regularly seeing a psychiatrist. But the commission found he was "currently incapacitated for the performance of the office of magistrate",
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:37P
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