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Hoke County Board of Health votes to fire director
Additionally, Oxendine's lawsuit claims that a May 12 regular meeting of the Board of Health was closed to the public because the doors to the meeting room were locked and no one responded to knocking. Yarborough said the board's decision Tuesday
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:42P
Ex-judge consumed 'drink and drug cocktail' before car crash
Photo: Nick Moir Former Supreme Court judge Roderick Howie was affected by a "cocktail of alcohol and medication", including drugs for anxiety and insomnia, when he had a serious car accident in May this year. The eminent former judge pleaded guilty to
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:41P
Jury discharged in NSW nurse Michelle Beets' murder trial
Today, the sixth day of the NSW Supreme Court trial of Walter Ciaran Marsh, Justice Derek Price discharged the jury for legal reasons. A new jury is expected to be empanelled on Friday. Mr Marsh, 51, has pleaded not guilty to murdering 57-year-old Ms
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:41P
Jury discharged in NSW nurse Michelle Beets' murder trial
Today, the sixth day of the NSW Supreme Court trial of Walter Ciaran Marsh, Justice Derek Price discharged the jury for legal reasons. A new jury is expected to be empanelled on Friday. Mr Marsh, 51, has pleaded not guilty to murdering 57-year-old Ms
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:41P
Former inmates voice complaints of treatment at OPP
NEW ORLEANS -- First the NOPD, and now the Department of Justice is taking a closer look at the Orleans Parish Prison system. The investigation stems in part from several former inmates who took their concerns to the DOJ. Ronald McCoy spent three
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:41P
Former E.C. Mayor Pabey, city's defense enter motion to have civil suit dropped
HAMMOND | Attorneys on behalf of George Pabey and the city of East Chicago filed motions Tuesday asking the court to rule in their favor without a trial in a civil lawsuit against them. Three former City Council members and family members related to
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:41P
Jeffs out of hospital, heads to another prison
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was sentenced to life imprisonment last month after prosecutors used DNA evidence to show he fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl prosecutors say he took as one
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:40P
Jeffs out of hospital, heads to another prison
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was sentenced to life imprisonment last month after prosecutors used DNA evidence to show he fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl prosecutors say he took as one
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:40P
Troy Davis Issues Parting Cry as Death Sentence Confirmed
“The struggle for justice doesn't end with me,” Davis said in a letter to supporters released to the public via Amnesty International USA after his legal appeal was refused. “This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:40P
Death toll rises to 11 in crash at US air races as authorities pull together
When 50-year-old Craig Salerno went missing after attending the Reno air races with friends, his wife didn't need DNA testing to confirm her worst fears. Her husband, the father of their two young children, was sitting in the VIP section where a
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:40P
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