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After 216 Unpaid Posts, Huffington Post Contributor Files Lawsuit
Take, for example, the titles of his four books: Anyone one of those could apply just as easily to the class action lawsuit filed today by Tasini against The Huffington Post, AOL, Arianna Huffington, and Jonathan Lerer on behalf of the thousands of
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
"Dreams Don't Come True in Eritrea": Anomie and Family
Equally traumatized were those women who suffered sexual assaults and rape. It is an open secret that involuntary relationships and rape occur in the military, but our respondents, thereby representing the attitude of the general public, were reluctant
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
Lawsuit filed over GovGuam contract
Pacific Data Systems announced Monday it has filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the government of Guam General Services Agency over the alleged failure to put a GovGuam phone services contract through a competitive procurement process.
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
State officials propose cigarette tax increase
Alabama's Chief Justice, Sue Bell Cobb, said going to a four day work week would help save money after state budget cuts. Cobb said she's giving presiding judges in each county the discretion of staying open five days a week if they have the funding.
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
Feds Blame MD Pilot for Fatal '08 Medevac Crash
April 12--The federal government is blaming the state of Maryland for a helicopter crash that killed four people in 2008, claiming the mistakes of a state-employed pilot, not federal air-traffic controllers, directly caused the accident.
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
Feds Blame MD Pilot for Fatal '08 Medevac Crash
April 12--The federal government is blaming the state of Maryland for a helicopter crash that killed four people in 2008, claiming the mistakes of a state-employed pilot, not federal air-traffic controllers, directly caused the accident.
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
Next steps for SB 1070 court fight
“I think people were expecting the 9th Circuit to uphold Judge Bolton's ruling,” Barr said. Four of the SB 1070 provisions that give the law its teeth are on hold, including the requirement that police question a person's immigration status if there is
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:06P
'RiceWrist' robot helps spinal-cord injury victim
Randy Childers' path to a laboratory at Rice University began on a motocross track in West Beaumont, Texas. The professional rider was injured in an accident while leading the last race of the day at Cowboy Badlands. Childers, then 24, suffered broken
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:05P
Woman crashes into VB restaurant, dies
Fatal Crash Team Investigators say the woman, identified as Elizabeth Tebault Briggs, of Norfolk, was traveling eastbound on Virginia Beach Boulevard in a 2007 Honda Civic when she stopped in the right-hand turn lane at the traffic light at Witchduck
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:05P
Japan Raises Nuclear Disaster Level to 7, Same As Chernobyl
German TV is reporting there is now partial meltdown in the open air, and the Japanese people are taking one shock after another: TOKYO — Japanese authorities raised Tuesday their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the
Updated: 04/12/2011 01:05P
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