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UPDATE: Port Authority police take part in "Click it, or ticket " campaign
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, high-visibility enforcement such as the Click It or Ticket Campaign is credited with increasing the national belt usage rate from 58 percent in 1994 to an observed usage rate of 85
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:52P
California's Prison Crisis
Three photographs are part of Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in which the Supreme Court orders California to release more than 30000 inmates from state prisons to reduce dangerous overcrowding. Looking at the photos, there should be no doubt that
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:51P
Baltimore Co. attorney, magician arrested in child sex sting in Fla.
A 47-year-old attorney and magician who runs a children's entertainment company in Baltimore County was arrested Monday and charged with flying to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, who turned out to be an
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:50P
US Supreme Court orders massive inmate release to relieve California's crowded
Justice Kennedy cites inhumane conditions, while dissenters fear a crime rampage. Gov. Jerry Brown seeks tax hike to fund transfers to county jails as prison officials hope to avoid freeing anyone. An undated photo from the California corrections
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:50P
PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out
This series of interviews will discuss, not only about how torture victims suffers while in the custody of the security forces, but the real obstacles in pursuing legal remedies within the system of justice. Apart from torture victims themselves,
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:50P
Max Sica, facing triple-murder charges, has separate case delisted from court
They were found dead at their parents' Bridgeman Downs home on April 22, 2003. He was committed to stand trial for their murders last October and will plead not guilty when the minimum 15 weeks trial starts in the Supreme Court in the week of January
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:50P
Returning the 1990 Constitution- The Best Way to End the Nepalese Crisis
If that weren't enough, then the Supreme Court gave a new verdict. 'The parliament may carry out amendments of any articles other than revert to one government system from federalism and royal institution from republican setup'.
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:50P
Panchkula municipal council gets Rawal back as president
The orders were passed by a division bench comprising Justice MM Kumar and Justice AN Jindal after hearing an appeal filed by Rawal against all the earlier orders. Allowing Rawal's petition, the bench, led by Justice Kumar, held that "there was no
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:49P
Feds review 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 09:47P
Russian Justice
Not long after the original trial judge read his verdict, one of his aides said publicly that he had been under constant pressure from his superiors to find the two men guilty. And who were these superiors? The judges of the Moscow City Court — the
Updated: 05/23/2011 09:47P
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