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Texas attorney general backing Medina Valley school district's appeal of
AP SAN ANTONIO — A Texas high school barred from letting seniors publicly pray at their graduation ceremony said Wednesday it will appeal the ruling from a federal judge who sided with a lawsuit filed by an agnostic family. Texas Attorney General Greg
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:35A
Intoxicated driver gets 18 years in 2 deaths
Two hours before the collision, he was helping people in a DUI program, they said. Perry, a former drug addict and alcoholic, had been clean and sober for 19 years in order to raise her teenage son, said her sister, Marla Hartley, 61.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:35A
State lawmen preparing for tough new immigration law
Mann led a training session Wednesday at Columbus State University to educate several dozen managers from law enforcement agencies around the state on new legal issues that affect them, including the immigration law. Many attendees said they had just
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:33A
Bury age issue: Govt to army chief
Justice JS Verma and Justice GB Patnaik are learnt to have backed the law ministry's stand of accepting May 10, 1951 as the valid date of birth of the army chief. Though the defence ministry claimed that it was unsolicited advice, its relevance cannot
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:32A
Emigrant man gets more than 6 years
Cooper was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms for having two 9mm handguns during a traffic stop in Park County last year. He had been convicted of a violent crime in Virginia in 2000. Cooper claimed to be the "pontiff of the Sovereign
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:32A
Markus Evans pleads not guilty in killing of 17-year-old girl
The Journal Sentinel has identified a series of cases in which defendants eluded justice because of failures in the system. Markus Evans pleaded not guilty Wednesday to killing 17-year-old Jonoshia Alexander shortly before Christmas.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:31A
Auto bailout to cost $14 billion
Those payments cover most of the federal bailout money that saved the company after it nearly ran out of cash and went through a government-led bankruptcy. General Motors Co., which also went through bankruptcy, received $49.5 billion in the US bailout
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:31A
Ariz. turns away application for marijuana dispensary
He cited a recent letter from the US attorney for Arizona and the state's lawsuit filed Friday against the US Department of Justice that asks a federal judge to rule on whether the Arizona law can be implemented in the face of federal law under which
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:31A
Chief Justice not pleased with comment on her looks
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye spoke out today in Beverly Hills on the remark that Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon made at a recent hearing on his bill to strip her of some powers to oversee the courts.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:30A
Legal drinking age raised to 25 in Maharastra
down if 25 per cent of the residents of a municipal ward demand its closure. The measures come ahead of the passage of the state policy on de-addiction, which is being pursued by Shivajirao Moghe, Minister for Social Justice & De-addiction Activities.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:28A
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