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Guatemalans sue U.S. over syphilis experiments in the 40's?
WASHINGTON (BNO NEWS) -- A group of Guatemalans who were infected with syphilis during US experiments conducted in the 1940s have filed a lawsuit against US health officials. According to reports from CNN, the class action lawsuit alleges that the US
Updated: 03/17/2011 04:02A
Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Phillippe
The film also has a point to make about how justice should operate. In one scene, Haller talks to a cop about a prosecutor who tried to unjustly tack on two almost certainly unconnected murders to charges against one of his clients.
Updated: 03/17/2011 04:00A
No mail-ballots for school election
An electronic mishap will prevent the Helena School District from holding the upcoming school election by mail. The topic of holding an all-mail-ballot election has been contentious over the past month since the board first approved the change,
Updated: 03/17/2011 04:00A
Two Rapides law enforcement officers recognized for DWI enforcement
Gunter works with the Sheriff's Office's DWI Task Force. He is one of two local law enforcement officers to receive an award this week from the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission in Baton Rouge for his anti-DWI efforts. The other recipient is Cpl.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
Civil suit filed in fatal Pitt County wreck
A civil lawsuit has been filed in Pitt County Superior Court against a Greenville woman and her father in connection with a fatal accident in 2009 that killed a 21-year-old Winterville man. Carla Atallah and her father, Fouad,
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
Dana Milbank: A strange brew of very odd Tea Party experiments
gained national attention, as have various states' efforts to imitate Arizona's immigration crackdown. Arizona, meanwhile, moved on to an attempt to assert its authority to nullify federal law; the last time that was tried, we had the Civil War.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
Downtown Alexandria hotel deal about to reach financing extension 'milepost'
17 by Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy to secure the necessary financing to move forward with purchasing the shuttered downtown Hotel Bentley and Alexander Fulton Hotel, which remains in bankruptcy litigation. Paul Cooper, one of the three principals in
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
KOLD.comTop lawmaker protests 'whistle-blower' demotion
A senior Justice Department official in charge of openness policy for the administration, Melanie Pustay, told senators on Tuesday, "Certainly if the statements in the (AP) article are true, it would be very serious, and we would have very serious
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
AN Ernesettle woman who was accused of "crying rape" has had a case against
Melissa Handy pleaded not guilty at a previous hearing to intentionally doing an act which tended to pervert the course of justice. Handy, of West Malling Avenue, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court yesterday before Judge Miranda Robertshaw.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:58A
DUI crackdown planned today through Saturday
Three sobriety checkpoints and 124 DUI saturation patrols are planned by 25 state and local law enforcement agencies in the next three days, said Alison Kirk of the state Office of Highway Safety. Last year, 45 drivers were arrested for DUI during the
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:57A
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