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Unique Voting System Found Only In Peoria
It stems back to a discrimination lawsuit filed in the eighties. According to Tom Bride, Executive Director of the Peoria Election Commission, “Those at large are voted in using fractional cumulative voting. The idea being that a small segment,
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Speed a factor in double death crash say police
Speed is thought to have been factor in a car crash in Auckland overnight in which two people died. A car crashed into a traffic light pole in the suburb of Mt Albert, killing the driver and a passenger. The 1995 Nissan Primera hit on the driver's side
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Ex-nurse William Melchert-Dinkel convicted of helping two vulnerable people
Rice County Attorney Paul Beaumaster welcomed the verdict today. He said: 'I think justice was served. 'I think it was a just verdict based on the facts of the case, and convictions were earned on both counts.' During the trial, Mr Beaumaster claimed
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Company at heart of Navy kickback scheme sued
AP - March 15, 2011 6:25 PM ET PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - The company of a Navy contractor accused of taking part in a $10 million kickback scheme is facing a lawsuit from a former employee. Patrick Clement says in federal court documents that Georgia-based
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Meter Reader Injures Dog
A Lafayette family is asking for justice after their tiny Yorkshire Terrier was brutally kicked by a meter reader in their backyard. Renie Botha says she was sitting in her den last Friday when her four small dogs suddenly became very agitated,
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Call for Permanent UN Burma Envoy
In a March 4 broadcast, Aung San Suu Kyi calls for a full-time UN envoy on Burma affairs and says that the string of pro-democracy protests in North Africa and Arab states shows that “the desire for freedom and justice is spreading all over the world.
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:29P
Vancouver Police doing an external review around fatal Abbotsford crash
A memorial was erected at the scene of the fatal crash on McCallum Road after Robert Minler's white Honda hit a hydro pole then careened into a cement wall early Sunday morning, killing the former Rick
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:28P
New York mosque project site faces legal challenge
A lawsuit by a New York firefighter who survived the attacks in 2001 seeks to overturn a decision by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission last August denying landmark status to the Lower Manhattan building, clearing the way for the 16-story,
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:28P
New York mosque project site faces legal challenge
A lawsuit by a New York firefighter who survived the attacks in 2001 seeks to overturn a decision by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission last August denying landmark status to the Lower Manhattan building, clearing the way for the 16-story,
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:28P
Man dies when hit by falling tree while snowmobiling in Lake Luzerne
The accident happened around 11 am The victim's name was not being released as of 2:45 pm pending notification of next of kin. The Warren County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident. A logger had cut a tree that fell across a South Warren
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:28P
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