Changing PFO laws might save money for strapped state budget - Richmond Register FRANKFORT — Before Kentucky faced a crumbling budget and the bottom fall out of tax collections, lawmakers were looking ways to save money on a growing prison population. Two years later, the state budget has been cut by more than $800 million; it ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:00 GMT
Appeals Court grants AG’s stay of proceedings plea on Sam Okudzeto ... - Joy Online The Court of Appeal yesterday granted a stay of proceedings in favour of the Attorney General and Minister Justice in the case in which Mr. Sam Okudzeto, an Accra Legal practitioner and member of the New Patriotic Party is suing the Government and ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:32:00 GMT
Trustee hopefuls make their case - HometownLife.com Experience abounds in the candidates hoping for appointment to the vacant trustee position on the Redford Township Board of Trustees. More than a dozen hopefuls — including a retired firefighter, an employee of the Oakland County Sheriff's ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:00 GMT
Branford Board of Education Fires Denise Farina - New Haven Independent The full nine-member board acted after its outside attorney, William Connon, explained the town’s proceedings involving the Farina case included nine days of hearings, featuring 25 sworn witnesses and nearly 300 exhibits. Connon, who served as the ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:29:00 GMT
Behind missed Gitmo deadline: No one wants jailees - Tulsa World SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees. Prisoners ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:39:00 GMT
Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case - Leaf Chronicle WASHINGTON — From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:39:00 GMT
Bangladesh upholds death sentences on Mujib killers - Reuters UK DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld death sentences on five men convicted of killing the country's independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in an army revolt 34 years ago, lawyers and court officials said. Mujib, whose ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:24:00 GMT
People Find Obama The Same As Bush When It Comes To Transparency - stoptheaclu.com “Going forward, anytime the American people want to know something that I or a former president wants to withhold, we will have to consult with the Attorney General and the white house counsel, whose business it is to ensure compliance with the ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:44:00 GMT
Karzai Sworn In For Second Term, Vows Change - CBS 2 Chicago Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government's ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:00 GMT
Ex-chief justice's Pa. casino group draws scrutiny - Cumberland County Sentinel No comments posted. A state lawmaker is questioning why a casino industry association in Pennsylvania that is headed by a former state Supreme Court chief justice is not registered as a lobbying group, despite its apparent attempts to influence ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:09:00 GMT
Justice Scalia speaks about Constitution in Ohio - Warren Tribune Chronicle COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday. Scalia was ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:07:00 GMT
Rodriguez DUI Case Continued - New Haven Independent Alderman Joey Rodriguez was set to appear Wednesday morning to answer to a drunken driving charge, but the case was delayed until Dec. 7. Rodriguez, who’s 22, is a first-term alderman in Fair Haven’s Ward 15. He was stopped by police Sunday night ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:22:00 GMT
Cop killer: Funeral video at trial unfair - Aiken Standard COLUMBIA -- A man on South Carolina's death row for killing two police officers in a land dispute over a highway widening project said Wednesday his sentence should be overturned because prosecutors tried to play on jurors' emotions by showing scenes ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:03:00 GMT
Md. city aims for racial balance - NorthJersey.com The rectangular bronze marker stands on a granite pedestal at Frederick City Hall about 8 feet from a stern bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney that has ... Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert Bell called the Dred Scott opinion "the ultimate bad ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:39:00 GMT
Teen charged with murder of Elizabeth Olten - Jefferson City News Tribune Online "Our indictments are for adult-like crimes, and we will seek an adult-like punishment." Those were the thoughts of Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson on Wednesday afternoon after the county's grand jury found Alyssa Bustamante, 15, acted with ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT
Brazil’s Lula given final say on Italian leftist - The Malaysian Insider BRASILIA, Nov 19 — Brazil’s top court ruled yesterday to extradite former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti om murder charges but left the final decision to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who granted him refugee status early this year. The ... Publ.Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:38:00 GMT