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Undocumented students may qualify for in-state tuition at RI public colleges
Research by the National Immigration Law Center indicates there is no public cost to extending in-state tuition rates to undocumented students because they could not otherwise afford to pursue their education. Rather, the in-state tuition break tends
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Suicide Verdict Leaves Medicis' Shacknai Stuck in Catch-22
Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years, and is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools.
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Portsmouth Rep. Daniel P. Gordon has lengthy criminal record
Troopers learned that there was an outstanding warrant for Gordon's arrest in Massachusetts for the three-year-old traffic stop on Route 195 in Fall River. O'Donnell said that, on Friday, the state police arrested him at his girlfriend's house in
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Carmaker Email Stunt Prompts Lawsuit
included a provision requiring all disputes to be settled in arbitration (which is generally much more favorable to companies than litigation), a California appellate judge recently held that Duick is allowed to proceed in court with her lawsuit.
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Son of Supreme Court justice will be a panelist on Ike's civil rights legacy
Marshall is a lawyer and son of the late US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He worked in the Clinton White House and is currently a partner at the international law firm Bingham McCutchen, LLP and a principal at its lobbying subsidiary,
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Yeates' murder suspect in court
The pair arrived for the pre-trial hearing at Bristol Crown Court holding hands and accompanied by two police officers. Dutch Tabak denies murdering landscape architect Jo, 25, just before Christmas last year — but has admitted her manslaughter.
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:09A
Class cert. sought in trans fat lawsuit against Smuckers
A California woman who alleges that certain JM Smucker's products contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (PHVO), or trans fat, while the company falsely promotes them as healthy for consumers, has requested an October 10, 2011, hearing on her
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:08A
Sweeping crime bill unveiled – and costly Tory cost-cutter exposed
The Conservative government takes the first step Tuesday toward passing a slate of justice bills that have died on the order paper – some of them more than once as a result of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's 2008 election call and decision to prorogue
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:07A
County Attorney: Plea agreement best served interests of justice
ST. JOHNS — William Nicholas Inmon, 23, was sentenced Sept. 9 to 24 years in prison for three murders. He admitted to killing William F. “Stoney” McCarragher (aka William F. Stone) in April 2007, killing Daniel Achten between March 1, 2009 and April 30
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:07A
Show Low Police Report - September 20, 2011
9 — Show Low Police took Jason Banta, 33, into custody on an outstanding warrant out of the Pinetop Justice Court for contempt with a $399 bond. • Sept. 10 — Police arrested Matthew Lee, 24, of Show Low, charging him with domestic violence related
Updated: 09/20/2011 08:07A
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