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US Supreme Court orders California to cut jails by 30000 inmates
By AP The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population to relieve severe overcrowding that has exposed inmates to increased violence, disease and death. The decision, however, doesn't mean the prison gates
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:17P
Coast Guard Partially Reopens Miss. River In La.
NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard is allowing some vessels to pass through a stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana that had been closed since an accident on the swollen waterway Friday. Petty Officer Stephen Lehmann said the Coast Guard allowed
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:17P
City attorney pleads no contest
Deputy District Attorney Daphne Smith said that blood drawn from Gutierrez about an hour after his arrest yielded a blood-alcohol measurement of 0.10, which exceeds the legal limit of 0.08. But in the event of a trial, Gutierrez planned to use a
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:17P
Indiana Republicans ask for rehearing on controversial unlawful entry ruling
House Speaker Brian Bosma and President Pro Tempore of the Senate David Long are asking the court to grant a re-hearing to clarify the justice's decision. They claim a more narrowly-tailored opinion could preserve people's private property rights while
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:16P
Gay marriage alert crashes Senate's e-mail
Normal e-mail traffic during that time? About 2000, Ludeman said. The servers were restored about 6:30 am The crunch coincided with an action alert sent by the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign to its Minnesota activists, urging them to "E-mail
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:16P
In Testimony, an Officer Admits She Fixed Tickets
The testimony came in the trial of Stephen Lopresti, a personal injury lawyer who was charged with driving under the influence after he smashed his Oldsmobile into another car on the Grand Concourse following a holiday party in December 2006.
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:16P
Teen street sign holder recovering after bizarre crash
An 18-year-old man is recovering tonight after a bizarre chain-reaction crash on Sunday. Coe Cochran was working at the corner of Alameda and Chambers holding a sign advertising the local video store, when a pick-up truck was hit and rolled up onto the
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:15P
LHC issues show cause notice to Kasur DOC
The Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed was hearing a plea filed by Zafran BB resident of Mianwali against recently appointed DOC Riaz-ud-Din in Kasur through counsel of Muhammad Saeed Asadi. The counsel for petitioner submitted before the
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:15P
More than 25 per cent of Wrestlemania performers from 1991 event now dead
By Daily Mail Reporter It's a tragic list of suicides, heart attacks and drug abuse - but they all have something in common. Wrestling. More than a quarter of the 51 performers who took part in the WWF Wrestlemania VII event in California in 1991 have
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:15P
Mastic Beach family to honor daughter killed in crash
The family of a Mastic Beach woman who was killed in a motorcycle crash on May 24, 2010, will dedicate a bench in her honor Tuesday night at Smith Point County Park in Shirley. Lauren Parris, 19, was riding on a motorcycle driven by her fiance,
Updated: 05/23/2011 10:15P
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