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House leaders ready to use Senate lawsuit limits bill
COLUMBIA -- The SC House's top Republican said Wednesday the GOP supports a Senate version of a lawsuit payout limit bill even though it allows more generous awards than they sought and Gov. Nikki Haley wanted.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Advocates for NC's disabled, elderly residents sue state
RALEIGH, NC -- Thousands of people who rely on Medicaid-financed aides to assist in daily tasks like bathing and dressing are on their own starting now, according to a lawsuit seeking to overturn changes to an NC health care program.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Federal officials had given Sky Express a reprieve mere days before fatal crash
Members of the Hanover County Fire Department stand near a bus that was involved in a single-vehicle accident Tuesday in Bowling Green, Va. Four women were killed. The Virginia State Police say a fatigued driver was at the wheel early Tuesday morning
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
SC proposes changes to immigration law
Proposed changes to SC's immigration laws would require all businesses to check their workers' legal status by using a federal database, a move that is receiving little resistance from the business community.
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Official: No survivors found in Ga. plane wreckage
Paige Joyner of the Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol said Wednesday evening that crews made the discovery after lowering a searcher by rope from a helicopter to reach the remote crash site. Joyner said the site is on Rich Mountain, in an extremely
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Lesbian's sex violation conviction quashed
The Crown has now conceded that there was a substantial miscarriage of justice. At a hearing this morning, the Supreme Court delivered an oral judgement, saying it was unsafe for Stewart's conviction to stand after her co-accused - allegedly the
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Official: No survivors found in plane wreckage atop Georgia mountain; plane
Paige Joyner of the Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol said Wednesday evening that crews made the discovery after lowering a searcher by rope from a helicopter to reach the remote crash site. Joyner said the site is on Rich Mountain, in an extremely
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
Small Wisconsin city of Niagara won't let husband live with wife
Now in a federal lawsuit, the couple accuses Niagara and its city council members of violating the couple's civil rights, as well as racial harassment and discrimination. According to the lawsuit filed Friday in US District Court: When he began
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:14A
COLUMN: Anti-immigrant legislation is ineffective
This illicit market exists due to the US government's drug prohibitionist policies. Drug prohibition is necessary not because the US government is ideologically opposed to the use of marijuana and cocaine, but because the “war on drugs” has provided
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:13A
Hispanics say they are being targeted at police checkpoints
Under a 2008 Georgia law, anyone cited for driving without a license must be arrested and taken to jail. Because Whitfield County participates in the federal 287 (g) program that trains local police to enforce US immigration laws,
Updated: 06/02/2011 12:13A
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