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DNA Evidence Under Microscope
The Stormont Justice Minister David Ford has today proposed changes to the law in relation to the retention of both peoples' fingerprints and their genetic 'fingerprint' - their DNA. He suggests that both prints and DNA profiles of those arrested - but
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:44A
NTSB Looks At 2008 Minnesota Plane Crash That Killed 8
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board meets in Washington on Tuesday to consider a final report on a 2008 plane crash in Owatonna, Minn., that killed eight people. The Hawker Beechcraft jet crashed July 31, 2008, while attempting a
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:44A
The collusion of immigration enforcement and policing must end
Immigration laws that restrict people from accessing status because of lack of financial resources are federally instituted and are in direct opposition to the interests of local residents. While we work towards building community structures that allow
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
DNA to be destroyed under new plans
Fingerprints and DNA profiles of those arrested, but not convicted, of a minor offence would be immediately destroyed under new changes to the law proposed by Justice Minister David Ford. Under existing legislation, the police have the power to retain
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Book Review: All in the Family
His parents, for instance, divorce when Mr Law is 12 years old and Jenny's determination as a single mother through to Danny's stoicism, working seven days a week, will win a place in readers' hearts, even if the local Chinese community cast scorn upon
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Fire crews attend crash scene
Emergency services were called to a collision on the A5 at the Gobowen/Weston Rhyn junction. Police fire and ambulance were all called to the scene of the collision on Tuesday morning (March 15) where a Peogeot hatchback had been involved in a
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Lititz woman injured in head-on crash
The crash happened on Hopeland Road, north of Lee Lane, at 5:37 pm, police said. A 17-year-old Lititz girl was driving west on Hopeland Road and Jeffrey L. Strauss, 45, of Lititz, was driving east, police said. The teenager was driving too fast around
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Race starts for London 2012 Olympic tickets
There are 650 sessions across 26 sports to choose from, with individual buyers limited to a maximum of 20 tickets each, although that drops to four for the most popular events. Organisers say a quarter of the Games' budget -- approximately two billion
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Japan's Fukushima six on seven-point scale of gravity - watchdog
The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant now rates six on seven-point international scale of gravity for nuclear accidents, Andre-Claude Lacoste, head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), said on Tuesday. The 1979 accident at Three Mile
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:43A
Indonesians sue Aust media, US over cables
A group of Indonesians has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against the US embassy in Jakarta and two Australian newspapers over articles based on leaked American cables accusing the country's president of abuse of power.
Updated: 03/15/2011 07:42A
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