SANTA ANA, Calif.— The refusal of police to release the names of six officers involved in a violent confrontation with a mentally ill homeless man has sparked anger but legal experts said Friday there is significant debate about whether law enforceme ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:47AM
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Hurricane Irene had led to the deaths of 18 people in eight states as of Sunday morning:
CONNECTICUT:
- In Prospect, one person was killed in a fire that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said was apparently caused by wires knocked down by the storm.
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Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:09PM
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WASHINGTON – Jesse Jackson said Thursday that the Tea Party's tenets are reminiscent of state's rights philosophies used in decades past to oppose federally mandated integration.
"The Tea Party is not new," Jackson said at a luncheon honoring civi ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:01PM
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NYTimes.com--The United States surgeon general has a new message for American women: It is O.K. to have a bad hair day.
As the country’s leading spokespeople on public health, surgeons general often weigh in on issues of national importance like t ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 4:55PM
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HOUSTON--A group representing area law enforcement has issued a statement in response to recent comments by activist Quanell X regarding what he called “over sentencing” by a “racist” local judge.
Quanell X, the leader of the New Black Panther Pa ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:22PM
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USATODAY.com--At least five people have died -- in a car accident, by heart attack and by falling trees -- as a result of Hurricane Irene, the slow-moving but powerful swirl of wind and rain that barreled ashore in North Carolina.
As the storm mov ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:16PM
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Newsweek.com--When Rutgers basketball star Epiphany Prince skipped her 2009 senior year to play professionally in Europe, her defection made headlines. The New York Daily News pointed out she became “the first American woman to leave school early and ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 11:01AM
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Press-Register Report---Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
The P ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:51AM
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