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FOX 5 Vegas - KVVUSenator not always critical of energy loan program
Solyndra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month and laid off its 1100 employees. The Silicon Valley company was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under a stimulus-law program to encourage green energy
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:19P
Women 'were flown from London for Berlusconi parties'
By Nick Squires, The Daily Telegraph September 19, 2011 2:16 PM Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi waves as he leaves the Justice Palace in Milan September 19, 2011. Berlusconi was set to attends a hearing in Milan of a case in which he is accused
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:19P
2nd trial begins in home invasion killings; father relives horror
Attorney Walter Bansley told jurors in New Haven Superior Court that Komisarjevsky did not intend to kill anyone and blamed Hayes for the worst of it. But Bansley did say that Komisarjevsky was the one who spotted Hawke-Petit and Michaela at the market
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:19P
Boyfriend of murdered student Amanda Zhao heads to court tomorrow in China
the trial would be conducted nor how long it would take, although Chinese justice is often swift. Li's cousin Han Zhang, who had been charged with helping Li dump Zhao's body, was held in custody but eventually released. A BC Supreme Court decision
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:18P
Boyfriend of murdered student Amanda Zhao heads to court tomorrow in China
the trial would be conducted nor how long it would take, although Chinese justice is often swift. Li's cousin Han Zhang, who had been charged with helping Li dump Zhao's body, was held in custody but eventually released. A BC Supreme Court decision
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:18P
Study: Crime cameras a cost-effective deterrent
The study, released Monday by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, found that Baltimore's network of more than 500 cameras has driven down crime in most areas and has given taxpayers a return of as much as $1.50 for every dollar spent on the
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:18P
Workers Settle Lawsuit With Tyson Foods
More than 17000 Tyson poultry workers in 41 plants in 12 states settled a $32 million lawsuit in a 12-year struggle to get paid for work already performed. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), as the leading union for
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:18P
Testimony opens in trial over TVA coal ash spill
With attorneys for the nation's largest public utility arrayed on one side of the courtroom and attorneys for hundreds of plaintiff on the other, the bench trial launched a court fight that will continue well into next year over responsibilities for
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:17P
Video of Calif. gay marriage trial to be unsealed
Walker decided to tape the proceedings after the US Supreme Court ruled the trial could not be broadcast. "Today's decision is bizarre for many reasons, but mostly because it defies a direct order of the US Supreme Court," Andy Pugno, general counsel
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:17P
Civil Settlement Reached in Cosco Busan Allision
The US Department of Justice and the governments of California, San Francisco, and Richmond, Calif., signed a consent decree with Regal Stone Ltd. and Fleet Management Ltd. that requires the vessel owners to pay $44.4 million to cover environmental
Updated: 09/19/2011 05:17P