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German Marshall Fund's Ivan Vejvoda Hails Balkans Free Of Mladic 'Burden'
We can speak to the merit of mentioning that issue at the moment of the arrest of Mladic; but if I can interpret what the intention was, I think it's a sense of a need for international justice -- that if we are to be serious about international
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:33A
Georgia Immigration Lawsuit
All or parts of those laws have been blocked by federal judges. The Georgia law authorizes law enforcement to check immigration status of a suspect who cannot provide an accepted form of identification, among other provisions.
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:33A
Georgia Immigration Lawsuit
All or parts of those laws have been blocked by federal judges. The Georgia law authorizes law enforcement to check immigration status of a suspect who cannot provide an accepted form of identification, among other provisions.
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:33A
Bill addresses evidence hidden by relatives
The chairman of the Assembly's Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee, Republican Rep. Gary Bies, tells the Journal Sentinel that law enforcement needs help with the issue. Note: GazetteXtra.com does not condone or review every comment.
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:32A
Rewriting the lexicon
In a move that needs a Swift or an Orwell to do full justice to its cant, the UCU annual congress has endorsed a call to repudiate the European Union's widely accepted definition of antisemitism. It is now the widely-accepted global benchmark for the
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:31A
Squatters Block Belcan Bridge
With COLA and Belizeans for Justice encouraging the squatters to take an emphatic stand - they proceeded from Chetumal Street South at mile two and a half on the Western Highway to the Belcan bridge. First they were going in a BBOC bus,
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:31A
Accused Killer Gets Off
Twenty three year old Roy Bennett Jr, charged with the murder of 17 year old Michelle Cattouse, was freed of the charge today in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas when a nolle pros was entered, indicating that the prosecution does not wish to proceed.
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:31A
HSBC kept quiet about Madoff's schemes, lawsuit claims
A report in The Daily Telegraph notes that Alpha Prime Fund and Senator Fund SPC claim in a filing in a New York bankruptcy court that HSBC, which acted as custodian for the funds, failed in its duty to monitor Madoff and profited from his Ponzi scheme
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:31A
HSBC kept quiet about Madoff's schemes, lawsuit claims
A report in The Daily Telegraph notes that Alpha Prime Fund and Senator Fund SPC claim in a filing in a New York bankruptcy court that HSBC, which acted as custodian for the funds, failed in its duty to monitor Madoff and profited from his Ponzi scheme
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:31A
Shumlin Looking For Nominee Who Is “Tough On Crime”
The vacancy is the result of the recent resignation of Justice Denise Johnson. Shumlin says he wants to name a person who is "smart, understands the law, and is tough on crime." (Kinzel) In the next few weeks, the Vermont Supreme Court will send a
Updated: 06/02/2011 07:30A