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DAN WALTERS: Learn from past spending sprees
The B-word -- bankruptcy -- is being bandied about in Stockton these days as the city faces a $37 million budget deficit with no light at the end of the fiscal tunnel. Vallejo filed for bankruptcy a few years ago under circumstances that are remarkably
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:06A
CHINA MOVES TO QUELL MONGOL PROTEST
The government has responded with a broad clampdown, pouring police into the streets, disrupting internet service and confining high school and university students to campus. The strategy appears to have thwarted major demonstrations in the regional
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:06A
SC grants bail to Binayak's associate
The court said the bail will be subject to the satisfaction of the trial court and on the furnishing of two securities of Rs.1 lakh each. It said that mere possession of printed material attributed to the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:06A
Loughner ruling was right one
The American justice system is rarely more strained than when it must weigh a suspect's mental competence in the case of a capital crime. What is the meaning of guilt, after all, when a murderer is not in control of his faculties? At the same time,
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Del. police: 1 dead, 1 injured in bike collision | Philadelphia Inquirer
Cody J. Kegelman, 14, was pronounced dead at Christiana Hospital, where he was taken after the 1:15 pm crash on a dirt access road about a quarter mile east of Delaware Route 72, state police said in a news release. Authorities say Kegelman was
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Taxpayers don't owe Stapley dime
That being the case, Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley does not have clean hands and should immediately drop his $10 million lawsuit against the county ("All charges vs. Stapley tossed," Tuesday). All the other plaintiffs trying to get rich off
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Online poker's transition hand | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-05-31
Maybe states will decide individually whether to allow Internet games within their borders. Or maybe Congress will enact a national law. At some point, it will be legal for poker fans in America to send money to a website, play online,
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Midair collision kills skydiver, injures another | Philadelphia Inquirer
Sarsfield suffered a broken neck, broken ribs, and internal injuries in the accident, which occurred about 8 pm, and died at Cooper University Hospital's Trauma Center, police said. Roberts, who had jumped 2900 times, was treated for a broken jaw and
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Village tourism to be popularised in Arunachal
PTI The concept of village tourism as advocated by late Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu would be implemented soon to make Arunachal Pradesh a favourite tourist destination of the country, the State Tourism Minister and Dorjee Khandu's son Mr Pema Khandu
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A
Sean Rowe Magic: Album review
Such a singer is Sean Rowe whose album Magic, on the Epitaph/Anti label, should put him on the radar if there's any justice in this world. Quite simply this record lives up to its name. Rowe's baritone resonates like a cello. It's a voice that hits you
Updated: 05/31/2011 03:05A