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Pryor facing investigation
The Dispatch reported in January that Pryor had been stopped three times for traffic violations over the past three years, each time driving cars that were owned by a car salesman or a Columbus used-car dealership where the salesman worked.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:06A
Gloria Allred In AC . Casino Lawsuit
BY NEWSCORE ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -- Controversial attorney Gloria Allred is launching a lawsuit against an Atlantic City casino on behalf of cocktail servers who claim they were fired to make room for younger women to wear new "sexy flapper" uniforms,
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:06A
If it wasn't her fault, then whose was it?
Justice's wheels turn so painfully slowly in this country, memories fade. The breathless outrage and agonising pity for that poor, neglected, tortured little boy becomes harder to recall in sharp focus. Time passes and life fills again with its usual
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:05A
Cell phone radiation: Harmless or health risk?
You may not be very surprised to hear that the one thing Hirshon, whose first cell phone was the groundbreaking 1996 Motorola StarTAC, doesn't spend much time worrying about is whether his heavy cell phone use will give him brain cancer.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:05A
Lawsuit against area schools goes to appeals court
Richmond Community Schools, Franklin County, Union County and Fayette County schools are among 14 eastern Indiana school districts listed as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in 2009 by ex-Franklin County High School girls basketball coach
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:05A
Unlikely Martyr
When the judge handed down the guilty verdict just before the New Year, hundreds protested outside the courtroom. German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the ruling, as did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The White House issued a statement
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:04A
NUT: Public Sector Pensions - Committee of Public Accounts Report
The Select Committee has confirmed the National Audit Office's verdict that costs are falling and pensions are affordable. "The Committee is right to criticise the Government for proposing further changes without even having considered what is
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:04A
Supreme Court of Canada Overturns Lower Court Decisions In Masterpiece v
In the Federal Court, both the Trial Court and the Court of Appeal rejected Masterpiece's claim on the basis that there was no likelihood of confusion because Alavida's and Masterpiece's respective trademarks were not being used in the same geographic
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:04A
Washing clothes led to woman's death
Mrs Todd, who was 66 when she died at the Eden Valley Hospice on August 21 last year, had already begun legal proceedings after being diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer and told it would be terminal. Now her husband, former serviceman John Todd,
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:04A
Rwanda: Mixed Legacy for Community-Based Genocide Courts
Rwanda's ambitious experiment in transitional justice will leave a mixed legacy. The courts have helped Rwandans better understand what happened in 1994, but in many cases flawed trials have led to miscarriages of justice.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:04A