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Michigan Senate panel approves abortion ban bill
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some Michigan lawmakers are making another attempt to ban a procedure they call "partial-birth abortion" in state law. A bill that would enact a state-level ban on the late-term procedure was approved Tuesday by the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Politics, Laws, Jennifer Granholm
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DNA test ordered for suspect in South Bend drug store rape
SOUTH BEND — A judge Tuesday ordered a man charged with raping a woman in a drug store restroom to give investigators his DNA.
Defendant Robert Kemp, dressed in an orange jail suit, his wrists cuffed to a chain around his waist, told St. Joseph...Tags: Human Body, Judges, Politics, Crimes, Chemical Industry
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Schuette plans to continue Asian carp legal fight
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's new attorney general said Thursday he will continue the state's court fight to close off waterways into the Great Lakes to keep out invasive Asian carp. Michigan is one of five states that have sued the U.S. Army...Tags: Judges, Litigation, Lawyers, Elections, Politics
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More wealthy District of Columbia residents registering guns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police data shows that since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Washington's handgun ban more than 2 1/2 years ago, hundreds of residents in the District's safest and wealthiest areas have registered handguns — more than...Tags: Chevy Chase, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Georgetown
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Indiana's proposed immigration law protested
SOUTH BEND — Community leaders gathered Saturday at La Casa de Amistad to protest Senate Bill 590, a proposed Arizona-style immigration law making its way through the Indiana General Assembly.
"We gather today as concerned members of the Michiana...Tags: Regional Authority, Employees, Racism, Arizona, Judges
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Ohio executes man who said he didn't recall crimes
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The state on Tuesday executed a man who said he didn't remember fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at the woman's Cincinnati apartment in 1984. Daniel Lee Bedford, 63, became the third inmate in Ohio and...Tags: Ohio, Punishment, Judges, Lawyers, Death Penalty
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Conviction stands, despite tart-tongued jurors
DETROIT (AP) — Jurors typically speak behind closed doors. So is it fair when two challenge a defense lawyer in open court? A federal appeals court has refused to overturn the Detroit drug conviction of a man, even after a juror told the defense,...Tags: Local Government, Wayne County, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Punishment
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Analysis: Why bankrupt W.R. Grace is thriving
ReutersCOLUMBIA, Md./NEW YORK (Reuters) - A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co and its surging sales to the energy sector. One...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Financially Distressed Companies, Sealed Air Corporation, Thomson Corporation, Environmental Issues
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Can the Obama administration be trusted?
— Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the U.S. Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e., what's written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver. The National Security...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Al-Qaeda, Software Industry, PRISM (surveillance program), The Washington Post
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Lake schools should teach about Sheriff Willis McCall and book 'Devil in the Grove'
I'd met the man, but stories about the late Sheriff Willis McCall were just that: stories. His personal appearance, when he came into the Sentinel office in the 1980s, only fed the fiction of the quintessential Southern sheriff determined to keep both...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, FBI, The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Arizona lawmakers pass Medicaid expansion
ReutersBy David Schwartz PHOENIX, June 13 (Reuters) - A divided Arizona Senate passed a key piece of President Barack Obama's Medicaid expansion agenda on Thursday, handing Republican Governor Jan Brewer a policy victory over fierce opposition from...Tags: Parties and Movements, Medicaid, Justice and Rights, Elections, Politics
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Wisconsin Republicans pass anti-abortion ultrasound bill
ReutersMILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Republican-led state Assembly passed a measure on Thursday to make it more difficult to get an abortion by requiring women first undergo an ultrasound. The bill, which also requires doctors who perform...Tags: Judges, Elections, Politics, Public Officials, Family Planning
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