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Dane County DA says budget panel meeting illegal, wants law voided
The GOP governor signed the bill Friday - and faced the lawsuit from Falk within hours. Republicans said they had followed the open meetings law. "We are supremely confident that we followed the law perfectly," said Andrew Welhouse, a spokesman for the
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:34P
Protesters want laws changed to deny murders early release
Wearing a blue T-shirt with the words “Justice for Jason,” protest organizer Sharon Lillibridge-Raymond, of South Kingstown, said it's probably too late to retroactively keep Woodmansee in prison. He was sentenced in 1983 to serve 40 years for stabbing
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:34P
Chicago Sun-Times Media Chairman Dies
(NewsCore) - James Tyree, the financier who took the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper out of bankruptcy in 2009, died Wednesday at age 53. His death came five months after he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and was caused by "an unexpected complication,"
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:33P
Family of man shot by police files wrongful-death lawsuit
The family of a Sandy man shot and killed by a Salt Lake City police officer nearly two years ago after he failed to pull over to the side of Interstate 80 near Saltair has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:33P
CIA contractor Davis freed in Pakistan killings
Just hours after Lahore trial court judge Muhammad Yousaf Ojla had announced Raymond Davis' formal indictment on murder charges, the 36-year-old American was on a plane headed out of the country. Punjab provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said his
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:33P
Aregbesola, mourns Olowu, as Daniel, President's wife condole with Shema
GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has expressed his condolences over the death of the Olowu of Orile-Owu, Oba Adesoji Adejobi Afelele, and one of his wives on Tuesday in an auto crash at the Gbongan-Ikire junction. Also, the Governor of Ogun State
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:32P
Ex-Island Club vice chair arraigned for alleged perjury
Trial judge in the matter is Justice Christopher Ayodeji Balogun. Dada pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him. State prosecutor, told the court that the defendant on November 15, 2006, at the High Court premises in Lagos before a
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:32P
Ex-Island Club vice chair arraigned for alleged perjury
Trial judge in the matter is Justice Christopher Ayodeji Balogun. Dada pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him. State prosecutor, told the court that the defendant on November 15, 2006, at the High Court premises in Lagos before a
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:32P
Police Seek Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Boy
Police on Wednesday released a 9-1-1 call from a witness to the accident. The call includes: “We've got a hit-and-run, 19th Ave. and Glendale. Small child left in the road. White pick-up truck traveling north on 19th Ave." The witness eventually lost
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:32P
Murderer's parole bid rejected
"No further comment shall be made by the Board relative to this matter," Justice Southwood said. Heiss was 25 when he and co-offender Peter Kamm shot dead Dean Robinson during a hunting trip about 60km south of Darwin in 1989.
Updated: 03/16/2011 09:32P