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Company accused of preying on elderly
LOGANSPORT A Logansport law firm has filed a lawsuit against an Indianapolis company accused of preying on elderly people. The law firm Starr Austen
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:17A
US wants BP's $20B fund to pay faster
Fireboats battle the blaze after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:16A
Klassen case shows BC police are not trained to obey law when using force
Klassen, a police use of force instructor at the Justice Institute of British Columbia, is accused of assaulting Firoz Khan in downtown Vancouver early in
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:16A
Jaime Pressly pleads innocent to DUI in LA
Court records show former "My Name is Earl" co-star entered the plea through her attorney yesterday. Prosecutors in the city of Santa Monica charged Pressly
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:15A
Filmmaker Soderbergh hit with New York paternity suit
Eleven” director helped pay medical expenses during Anderson's pregnancy, and a DNA test showed he was the father of the girl she had in August.
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:15A
Courts Affirm Vigilante AZ Rancher to pay $87000 for Assaulting Immigrants
Barnett, upholding an Arizona jury verdict against a vigilante rancher operating along the Arizona-Mexico border. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the jury's
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:15A
South Carolina bill aimed at blocking enforcement of Sharia law
The bill makes no reference to a specific religion or country, though its sponsors acknowledge they worry about the ultraconservative tenets of Sharia law,
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:14A
Mississippi Briefs
Backers of a maritime museum are working with the University of Southern Mississippi in hopes one of the first guided missile cruisers built at Ingalls
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:14A
Assault ruling upheld against rancher; now must pay $87K
In February 2009, a federal jury issued a split verdict in a case against Barnett stemming from the 2004 incident. The jury found that he didn't violate the
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:14A
More reasons to fix US immigration policy
These facts point, again, to just how intertwined people become in a community, no matter what their immigration papers say. The bad economy has not pushed
Updated: 02/05/2011 02:14A