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Tourist Dominic Emmenegger rides through Melbourne's Burnley Tunnel in peak hour
Mr Emmenegger is facing possible charges for disobeying traffic control signs, conduct endangering life and specific toll road offences. Some attract fines and others a court appearance. Firefighter Allan Morton was on his way to work when he came
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
Atheists Sue Little Rock's Transit Authority for Rejecting Godless Bus Ads
(Little Rock, Arkansas, June 1, 2011) A federal lawsuit was filed today against the Central Arkansas Transit Authority (CATA) and its advertising agent, On the Move Advertising, for declining to run $5260.00 worth of bus ads aimed at
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
Capitol Alert: Cantil-Sakauye says Calderon's comment on her looks was 'offensive'
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has responded to a controversial reference to her appearance, telling NBC LA that she was "troubled" by the remark made by Assemblyman Charles Calderon last month.
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
Court orders new trial over death
The man jailed for the killing of a 14-year-old South Auckland cannabis dealer has successfully appealed his murder conviction and will face a new trial. The Court of Appeal, in a decision released today, has quashed Nathan Williams' convictions for
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
Orange County man pleads not guilty to murder in suspected DUI crash that
Farley's mother, Cynthia Farley, released a statement through her son's attorney, Robert Viefhaus. "Our family, including Austin, is deeply saddened by this horrible traffic accident, which has caused such tragic consequences to those involved,
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
Orange County man pleads not guilty to murder in suspected DUI crash that
Farley's mother, Cynthia Farley, released a statement through her son's attorney, Robert Viefhaus. "Our family, including Austin, is deeply saddened by this horrible traffic accident, which has caused such tragic consequences to those involved,
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
belligerency on global energy market (2)
Some close watchers of the international oil market believe that the cession of Oil rich Bakasi peninsula to the Cameroons by the International court of justice was not unconnected with the desire of some franco -phone oil companies to balkanize the
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:03P
The Gazette's View: A wake-up call on weaknesses in the justice system
MONTREAL - One can question the ruling by Quebec Superior Court Justice James Brunton to place a stay of proceedings against 31 Hells Angels members or associates because they cannot be guaranteed a sufficiently speedy trial.
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:02P
As the most authoritative report yet says mobile phones pose a health risk
And since children are the most vulnerable to mobile use, he said: 'We cannot exclude the possibility that, after some decades of daily use, a whole generation may suffer negative effects, perhaps as early as in middle age.' A US study this year found
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:01P
A Voice From the Past
Justice Kennedy's opinion evokes the Supreme Court of the civil rights era. As I read the majority opinion, I had the eerie feeling of entering a time warp, of being whisked back to an earlier era, one that preceded my own decades of close encounters
Updated: 06/01/2011 09:00P