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5-year-old boy drowns during holiday visit in Port Acres
Justice of the Peace Brad Burnett told KFDM News that based on preliminary information, the child and his parents traveled from Orange and were visiting a friend's home in the 62 hundred block of Diamond Avenue in Port Acres.
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:48P
Campaign finance law at heart of Edwards case
2009 (RALEIGH) NEWS & OBSERVER FILE PHOTO Federal prosecutors and John Edwards' lawyers argued in secret for months over how campaign finance law deals with gifts and third-party payments. This area of the law would be at the core of a prosecution of
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:48P
26 dead as bus plunges into pond in India
AP Sports Video GAUHATI, India (AP) - An official says at least 26 people have been killed when a bus carrying a wedding party crashed into a large pond in India's remote northeast. Local magistrate SK Roy says the bus was crossing a wooden bridge over
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:45P
As Grim Questions Linger, Shopian Remembers 2-Yr-Old Tragedy
There were no reports of rallies and processions in the town which the tragedy had plunged into Kashmir's longest strike in the past two decades of conflict, having resumed normal life only after a courtroom appeal by the then chief justice of the
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:45P
Club sued over man's drowning
The association, which is identified in the lawsuit as conducting business at 606 Main St. in Gallitzin, could not be reached for comment. The lawsuit was filed by Taneyhill's daughter, Melissa A. Miller of Altoona, the administrator of her father's
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:44P
Obama Increasingly Targets Employers of Illegals
the number of employers facing problems with the law has been increasing, reports the New York Times. The NYT story seems to be part of an effort by the White House to push back against those who criticize the president's record on immigration at a
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:44P
5-man murder trial begins in Vancouver
Before the Crown began his opening statement, Justice Bill Smart had warned the seven-man, five-woman jury that the year-long trial would be "emotionally demanding," with evidence that would likely be "graphic and disturbing." The trial is expected to
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:42P
Book Review: Memory and Justice in Democratic Chile
Fear and terror had created a long, temporary absence of vociferous socialist support, and the definition of justice had been mangled and manipulated by the absence of a memory made public. Two particular memory frameworks prevail through the book
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:42P
Move High Court, Supreme Court tells farmer-petitioners
Justice Singhvi told senior counsel UU Lalit, appearing for Satish Kumar and seven other farmers: “It is appropriate that once the High Court has taken cognisance of the matter and issues notice, this matter too should be heard by them.
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:40P
change, not bankruptcy
I hope that you weren't eating last night while watching Four Corners. The special on the live export trade to Indonesia was filled with scenes of cruelty and suffering of animals in slaughterhouses as they were killed and butchered.
Updated: 05/30/2011 10:40P
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