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Queen sues opponent after losing state election
Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, is suing his opponent in the last election for violating state campaign finance laws. The suit claims Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Spruce Pine – who beat Queen in November – misled voters about who paid for a series of television
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:57A
Watchdog panel gives bailout a mixed verdict
AP WASHINGTON — The government's bailout of banks, automakers and insurers helped prevent a more severe economic crisis but might have sowed the seeds of the next one, a congressional watchdog group said Wednesday in its final report.
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:56A
THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW AGAINST IT
I guess they are working to raise revenue without raising taxes. Creating criminals is a great way to guarantee revenue flows. They call it “protecting and serving”…protecting and serving whom? America has the largest prison population in the world yet
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:56A
WHEN WILL OUR GOVERNMENT SERVE OUR NEEDS?
With 15 million Americans unemployed and 43 million subsisting on food stamps, wouldn't you think those Congressional leaders would stop eight to ten million illegal aliens from holding down full time jobs—just by enforcing our employment laws?
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:56A
Islam provides women honor, self-respect – I
The right to divorce was held only by man, The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911, states: “In the Mosaic Law divorce was a privilege of the husband only...” The position of the Christian Church until recent centuries seems to have been influenced by both
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:56A
Judge moves up hearing in Peek'n Peak bankruptcy
The Peak, according to the plan, during the five years would use its operating revenue and proceeds from the sale of condominiums and other real estate to pay off most of its more than $28 million in debts. If the debts have not been paid off in five
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:56A
Decades of violence, terror end with man's dangerous offender tag
His parents separated around that time and the children subsequently lived in about seven foster homes. Domestic violence was involved in at least one of them. School was difficult for Dunsford. He barely learned to read. “He was probably in Grade 6 by
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:55A
Judgment reserved over Vantreight development
Judgment was reserved Wednesday in a civil lawsuit in which a Central Saanich community group is trying to stop a housing development by Ian Vantreight, whose family has farmed in the area since the 19th century. BC Supreme Court Justice Victor Curtis
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:55A
Judgment reserved over Vantreight development
Judgment was reserved Wednesday in a civil lawsuit in which a Central Saanich community group is trying to stop a housing development by Ian Vantreight, whose family has farmed in the area since the 19th century. BC Supreme Court Justice Victor Curtis
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:55A
State's mixed message: Open on money, closed on deaths
A Kentuckian, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, famously called sunlight the "best of disinfectants" — the surest way to keep both public and private institutions honest and clean. Sunshine Week 2011 has brought Brandeis' native state an honor and
Updated: 03/17/2011 01:53A
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