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Police: Polk County Sheriff's Office employee killed by husband
Beatrice Ann Dickey was the executive director of the office of business affairs at the law enforcement agency. Police say Dickey was found early Sunday with blunt force trauma to her head. She was taken to Tampa General Hospital and pronounced dead.
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:32A
Scans help free patients buried alive in their own bodies
A man in Belgium survived a car accident and was presumed for five years to be brain-dead - until he communicated with doctors through a scan that mapped his thoughts. A woman in Britain caught a viral
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:32A
5 Hoover High Students Injured in Crash
Five students were injured — three seriously — in a Saturday morning crash at Pittsburg Avenue and Applegrove Street. Patch The Canton Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that injured five Hoover High School students
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:32A
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott at stalemate over law changes to allow offshore
Julia Gillard has given Tony Abbott the government's new draft legislation for migration law changes. Julia Gillard and Immigration Minister Chris Bowen gave ground on asylum-seeker amendments, but not enough to satisfy the Coalition.
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:31A
Battle lines drawn over law-and-order bill
Among the most contentious of the issues will be criminal reform legislation. On Sunday, a memo was circulated to the Conservative caucus revealing that "comprehensive legislation" - the Safe Streets and Communities Act - will be tabled Tuesday.
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:31A
Tough-on-crime bill meaningless when justice system is broken
Frankly, all the prime minister's rhetoric is meaningless sound and fury in a real world where the system can't process cases in a timely fashion: Justice delayed is justice denied. Last week, the associate chief judge of the Provincial Court tossed
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:31A
Local judge drops out of high court race
His decision comes after Chief Justice Chuck Malone announced Aug. 31 that he will seek a full six-year term in 2012. Malone, 57, was a circuit judge in Tuscaloosa County for 10 years before joining Gov. Robert Bentley as chief of staff in January.
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:31A
Govt rejects Coalition asylum law amendment
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says the Federal Government will oppose the Coalition's proposed amendment to migration laws. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard held talks today on changes to migration laws to put offshore
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:31A
Vegetative patients use brain waves to speak
A man in Belgium survived a car accident and was presumed for five years to be brain-dead - until he communicated with doctors through a scan that mapped his thoughts. The patient, whose eyes could open
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:30A
Conservatives table new crime law
Among the most contentious of the issues will be criminal reform legislation. On Sunday, a memo was circulated to the Conservative caucus revealing that "comprehensive legislation" - the Safe Streets and Communities Act - will be tabled Tuesday.
Updated: 09/19/2011 04:30A
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