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Employers face flood of claims as staff lay-offs grow
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Updated: 03/11/2011 06:11A
Men accused of killing sailors indicted on piracy charges
A federal grand jury has indicted 13 suspected pirates from Somalia and one from Yemen in the February hijacking of a yacht that left four Americans dead, the US Justice Department said Thursday. The men face piracy, kidnapping and firearms charges
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:10A
Sheen files $100m suit
Charlie Sheen brought his verbal war against Warner Bros. and the executive producer of Two and a Half Men to the courtroom on Thursday, filing a $100 million lawsuit seeking to recoup his salary and wages for the show's crew.
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:10A
Law aims to protect transit workers
Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber tabled "Bregg's Law," a private member's bill, on Thursday morning. If the bill becomes law, it would introduce a definition of "public transit operator" into the Criminal Code, making assaults on transit workers
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:10A
Decision due in man's second murder trial
During the trial, court heard that Willard had won $25000 at bingo shortly before her death, and had about $5000 remaining at the time she was killed. Dowling testified Willard had enough alcohol and codeine in her system to have caused a fatal
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:10A
Judge signs settlement in jail's Taser lawsuit
US District Judge Edmund A. Sargus approved the deal between the sheriff's office, the US Department of Justice and the state. The settlement of a class-action lawsuit was reached a month ago. No one filed any opposition so Sargus signed it yesterday.
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:09A
Judge signs settlement in jail's Taser lawsuit
US District Judge Edmund A. Sargus approved the deal between the sheriff's office, the US Department of Justice and the state. The settlement of a class-action lawsuit was reached a month ago. No one filed any opposition so Sargus signed it yesterday.
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:09A
Ruling: Wind farm can proceed in Prattsburgh
Lame-duck town board members who were not hostile to the project then agreed to settle the lawsuit and allow the project to go forward. When the new board members were seated in January 2010, they attempted to rescind the lawsuit settlement,
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:09A
Coroner rules unlawful killing in death of Stretford's Luke Molnar
THE family of a Stretford teen who was electrocuted in Fiji in 2006 broke down and wept as a coroner returned a verdict of unlawful killing this afternoon. Coroner John Pollard said the death of 17-year-old Luke Molnar, of Derbyshire Lane,
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:09A
SJC takes up challenge to state sex offender law
When he suggested that the standard is dangerousness, not violence, Justice Margot Botsford responded, "Oh, please." Justice Ralph Gants questioned whether a decision allowing the law to stand opens the door to other laws to commit people after their
Updated: 03/11/2011 06:09A
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