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Drunken Tractor Drive Ends With DUI: Cops
he kicked an officer and head-butted a squad-car partition. Online court records don't list an attorney for Grove. He also did not immediately return a call for comment from The Associated Press after the Beaver County Times reported his arrest Monday.
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:49A
Debate still simmers over NY hate crime stabbing
But a letter last week from the US Justice Department indicates much still needs to be done. The 28-page missive from the department's Civil Rights Division lists recommendations for improving hate crime investigations on New York's eastern Long Island
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:49A
Debate still simmers over NY hate crime stabbing
But a letter last week from the US Justice Department indicates much still needs to be done. The 28-page missive from the department's Civil Rights Division lists recommendations for improving hate crime investigations on New York's eastern Long Island
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:49A
ACLJ Calls on US To Reject United Nations Effort To Grant Palestinian
19, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), today called on President Obama to follow through on the US promise to veto any resolution granting the Palestinian Authority statehood
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:49A
NY group, university to study rape kit backlog
Natasha's Justice Project, based on New York's Long Island, believes there could be as many as 180000 untested rape kits nationwide. But no one really knows for sure. The kits are the physical evidence collected after a sexual assault.
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:49A
Tribunal rejects ballot papers as eviden...
Ruling on the matter which had previously halted the proceedings, Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Micheal Akoja, said only certified true copies of documents were admissible as secondary evidence. Akoja said: “The 24 bundles of ballot papers sought
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:47A
SEC IG Asking Justice Dept. to Review Agency's Madoff Probe
The Securities and Exchange Commission's top auditor plans to ask the Justice Department to review whether an SEC lawyer broke conflict-of-interest rules during the agency's investigation of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff.
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:47A
New NH Bishop Wants to Help Heal, Move Forward
He was ordained in 1978 as a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, and in addition to English, speaks Slovakian, Spanish, Italian and French. For the past 12 years Libasci has served as pastor of St. Therese of Lisieu parish in Montauk, NY,
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:46A
Jose Padilla Sentence Tossed: Ex-Chicago Gang Member With al-Qaeda Ties
The appeals court sent the case back for a new sentencing hearing. Padilla and two co-conspirators were convicted in 2007 after a three-month trial in which prosecutors said they sent money, recruits and supplies to Islamic extremist groups including
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:46A
AT&T talking to rivals about divestitures, report says
AT&T has been left scrambling to save a deal that was put in jeopardy when theUS Department of Justice sued to block the merger, which would create the nation's largest wireless carrier by combining the second and fourth-largest players.
Updated: 09/19/2011 11:46A