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New Booklets Provide Essential Answers to Mesothelioma Patients
Most often new clients call after hearing the devastating news that they or a family member has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and fatal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Because this type of cancer only affects 2500-3000 per year,
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:17A
Pataskala man's missing plane likely found
10TV: Pataskala pilot missing: Crews are searching rugged terrain in the north Georgia mountains for signs of a missing plane with four people on board, including a Pataksala man. ELLIJAY, Ga. — Search crews spent Wednesday night trying to get close to
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:16A
Texas Briefs: High school to appeal ruling barring prayer
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 whose son is one of the
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:16A
The Southwest Civil Reunion hosts 50th anniversary
The civil rights movement is a pivotal time in our history where many fought for the right to have equality and justice for everyone. Many risked their lives to allow us to enjoy freedoms that many of us take for
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:16A
2-year-old Kansas City boy drowns in pool
The accident Tuesday night was initially reported as taking place in a neighbor's pool. The Kansas City Star reports that police clarified Wednesday that the in-ground pool was in the toddler's own yard. Officers say it appears the 2-year-old was left
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:16A
Feds close investigation of Austin police Posted On: Tuesday, May. 31 2011 10
Acting City Attorney Karen Kennard was notified in a memo dated Friday from an official with the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division that the investigation was closed. The official who wrote the letter, Jonathan M. Smith of the
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:15A
SC asks lawyers to suggest policy on loan waiver
By Our Staff Reporter | From the Newspaper ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Supreme Court asked the lawyers assisting it in a loan write-off case on Wednesday to come up with a policy that was acceptable to the State Bank governor and spelled out the scope of a
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:15A
The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage
An insolvent California -- still struggling with its $15 billion budget shortfall -- is trying to advance its own version of the bill that would contravene federal immigration law and cost millions of dollars. At about the same time, the state has
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:15A
Ontario matters
At worst, because of these young men's age, under the (still too) lenient provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the murderer of Mr. Mark will likely serve significantly less than five years in a youth 'corrections' facility if convicted,
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:15A
News Analysis
What he did not inherit, and what he has so far not created, is a state agency that coordinates infrastructure investments. The result is that today's Cuomo administration is a carbon copy of the Paterson, Spitzer, Pataki, and Cuomo administrations of
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A