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School budget cuts raise lawsuit risk
Brian Sandoval's proposed budget promises major funding cuts for public schools and higher education, and Nevada's education leaders are scrambling to figure out how to get by with fewer employees and programs. During the next three weeks,
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:11A
Woman convicted in drinking-related death
The jury began deliberations Friday afternoon and, after rewatching taped interviews with police, deliberated for less than half an hour before returning a guilty verdict against Lindsay Treanor, who furnished the Five Star whiskey that contributed to
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:09A
News Briefs: Man injured in rollover crash upgraded from critical
Police said 64-year-old Thomas McGuire, who was returning home from a 10:30 am doctor's appointment in Commerce Township, may have suffered a medical problem at around noon while driving and became disoriented before crashing.
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:09A
Man gets 2 years for drunken-driving death
to causing the death of his girlfriend in a drunken-driving crash has been sentenced to two years in prison. The victim's parents asked the judge Thursday to keep 32-year-old John J. Pfeiffer Jr. out of prison, saying the death was an accident.
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:08A
California bees find new home in Green Bay
Ken Sikora cut his right thumb in a January table saw accident and later used honey to treat the wound. He even let an Italian honeybee sting him Saturday because he said the venom helps with healing. "I'm used to it," he said with a shrug as he
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:08A
NATO soldier dies after helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan
The accident happened on Saturday when the helicopter of an unknown type carrying two crew members crashed in the Alah Say district of Kapisa province. There were conflicting reports on what caused the crash. Both crew members initially survived the
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:08A
DoJ seeks BSP help in review of GFIs' exposure in MRT-3
Sources said DoJ Secretary Leila M. De Lima has inquired of the BSP the policy and provisions that it has based its decision on when it approved the two banks' non-core investments when it bought shares in MRTC in 2009. According to De Lima's letter to
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:08A
Retiring bankruptcy Judge John Ninfo still plans to educate
JAMIE GERMANO staff photographer The Jesuit education Ninfo cites came from McQuaid Jesuit High School in Brighton and Georgetown University in Washington, DC His law school was secular: Boston University. Ninfo served in the US Marine Corps from
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:07A
Retiring bankruptcy Judge John Ninfo still plans to educate
JAMIE GERMANO staff photographer The Jesuit education Ninfo cites came from McQuaid Jesuit High School in Brighton and Georgetown University in Washington, DC His law school was secular: Boston University. Ninfo served in the US Marine Corps from
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:07A
US's Web censorship eats away at freedom
Internet censorship is not limited to China, Libya, Egypt and the Middle East. We can now welcome the censorship of personal freedoms here in the USA. On April 15, the Department of Justice and the FBI seized the domain names for the three biggest
Updated: 04/24/2011 05:07A