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UUTTC adding some four-year courses
The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has granted the college permission to offer baccalaureate education in business administration, criminal justice and elementary education, allowing UTTC to offer
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:32A
Law360 Opens Los Angeles and Chicago Bureaus
Founded in 2003, Law360 (www.law360.com) is a publisher of news and data for litigators, and one of the fastest-growing media companies in the US The company covers late-breaking news on high-stakes litigation across every spectrum of business law.
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:31A
Jamaican drug kingpin asks NYC judge for leniency
Drug lord Christopher Coke wrote a seven-page letter to Justice Robert Patterson Jr. of Manhattan federal court asking for leniency and citing his "charitable deeds and social services" in Jamaica such as providing free school supplies for children.
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:31A
Saab bankruptcy protection approved by court
Beginning of Story Content A Swedish appeals court tossed a lifeline Wednesday to cash-strapped car maker Saab, approving its application for bankruptcy protection as it awaits funding from Chinese investors. The ruling by the Court of Appeal for
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:31A
Death of officer ruled accidental
The death of a Chicago Police Officer last Spring has been ruled an accident by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Officer Kevin Robinson was exposed to harmful fumes last March at the police station where he worked in the Morgan Park
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:31A
TV show raises murder trial doubts
An episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show is at the centre of a miscarriage of justice claim after a guest appeared to contradict evidence she gave at a murder trial. The woman, named only as Bev, told the ITV show she saw the killer plunge a knife into
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:30A
Authorities called to car crash in suburban West Palm find newspaper delivery
At around 3:30 am, Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies responded to a car crash and found the delivery man in the car. Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue crews took him to St. Mary's Medical Center and is in stable condition, sheriff's office spokeswoman
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:30A
Cyclists seriously hurt in crash on A9 in Caithness
A cyclist has died following an accident with a car on the A99 in the far north. Emergency services were called to the scene at Ackergill, in Caithness, at about 11:55. The incident involved two cyclists and a car. One of the cyclists has died and the
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:30A
Court: No temporary injunction in expelled cadet petition
The Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, ruled on Wednesday that it would not issue a temporary injunction against the expulsion of army cadet Yoel Glickman from an officers' course. Glickman, who was dismissed from
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:29A
$16 Muffins, $8 Coffees, $5 Meatballs: Justice Dept. Spending Rapped
by Mark Memmott In a new report covering the last few years of the George W. Bush administration and the first year of the Obama administration, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found that at conferences hosted by DOJ there was
Updated: 09/21/2011 09:29A