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Revised dog breeders law advances in senate (AUDIO)
Senators rejected a proposal to put the issue back to the voters next year, noting last November's Proposition B would have driven many breeders out of business by then. Sponsor Michael Parson of Bolivar says his bill includes much of proposition B but
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:35P
What happens if Congress doesn't rein in national debt?
A “crash landing,” cautions one business think tank. “If the US does not put its fiscal house in order, the reckoning will be sure and the devastation severe,” said Eriskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, cochairs of the president's deficit
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:35P
Firm Sues AP over Times Square Bombing Images
Ken Petretti Productions uses video cameras to monitor billboard advertising for its clients. The company's lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in New York, said the Associated Press wrongfully shared video captured by Petretti cameras of a man
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:35P
Women In Liberia Mobilize For Peace
Their story, which begins with the simple act of sitting along the streets for months under the hot sun or torrential rains of Liberia, led to the exile of alleged warlord Charles Taylor in 2003, now awaiting his verdict in The Hague.
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:33P
HUD sued over reverse-mortgage rules
Under the new HUD policy, an heir or surviving spouse must pay the mortgage balance to keep the home — even if that loan balance is higher than the property's value. A reverse mortgage is a way that older homeowners can convert the equity in their
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:33P
Minnesota man sues online bargain promoter Groupon over expiration dates
The lawsuit filed today in US District Court in Minneapolis says federal and state laws prohibit the sale of gift certificates with expiration dates. It alleges Groupon and its retail partners issue the deals knowing many customers won't use them in
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:32P
Moran set to deliver verdict
The jury in the Melbourne trial of gangland widow Judy Moran will deliver its verdict shortly. Moran is accused of organising the shooting murder of her brother-in-law Des Moran at an Ascot Vale cafe in 2009. The jury has been deliberating since last
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:32P
Jury selection to begin in online sex trial for former UN weapons inspector
Jury selection will begin Wednesday in Monroe County Court for an April trial of former United Nations official William Scott Ritter Jr., who is charged with contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room and
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:32P
Broward County Commission action
Settled for $2.8 million a lawsuit filed by county vendor Poole & Kent Co. for breach of contract, in which the company originally sought $12.5 million in connection with contracts for work at the county's wastewater treatment plant.
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:32P
Win Passes to See THE LINCOLN LAWYER
The film is directed by Brad Furman from a screenplay by John Romano. Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment present a Lakeshore Entertainment Lionsgate production in association with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Stone Village Pictures.
Updated: 03/08/2011 06:32P
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