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Cheers greet Mexican soldiers relieving western town cut off from supplies by drug cartel
Associated PressLA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. People in La Ruana in Michoacan state lined the main road to greet more than a dozen...Tags: Felipe Calderon, Blackmail and Extortion, Armed Forces, Mexico, Defense
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Arkansas state treasurer faces federal charges, calls to resign
ReutersBy Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 20 (Reuters) - Arkansas' state treasurer was charged with extortion on Monday following a weekend arrest on accusations that she took repeated cash payments for state bond business, including money delivered in a pie...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Blackmail and Extortion, Pies and Tarts, Politics
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May 14, In History: Officials boarded a dilapidated boat packed with 198 undocumented Chinese
>> 50 Years Ago — SACRAMENTO — The bill giving seven miles of Imperial County river frontage to Arizona will now go to a conference committee of senators and assemblymen following a defeat of the bill in the Senate yesterday. Assemblyman...Tags: Vicodin (drug)
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Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights scrutinized after Baltimore City Detention Center scandal
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comThe Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights, which was sponsored by a former Washington County senator and signed into law in 2010, is getting fresh scrutiny in the aftermath of a scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where 13 female...Tags: Police Investigations, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Christopher B. Shank, FBI, AFSCME
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Insight: Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
ReutersZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Banking, Electronics, Laws, Science and Technology
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A Hartford Wise Guy And A $500 Million Museum Heist
The Hartford CourantIt was a shore dinner in Maine a decade ago that transformed Robert Gentile, an aging, unremarkable wise guy from Hartford, into the best lead in years in one of the world's most baffling crime mysteries, the unsolved robbery of half a billion dollars...Tags: Police Investigations, Prosecution, Personal Weapon Control, Theft, Crimes
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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: Ramadan, Companies and Corporations, New York City, Business, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Head of investigations at corrections department retires
Jesse Ballard III, the head of internal investigations at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, will retire in June to take a federal job, the state agency said Friday. The move comes as the department continues to handle the fallout...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Montgomery County (Maryland), Prosecution, Parties and Movements, Judges
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In Mexico, immigrants' relatives watch U.S. debate, and hope
TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent Saturday morning, some 2,000 miles from the Beltway. But like many here, Guadarrama was up-to-the-minute with the...
Tags: Immigration, Blackmail and Extortion, Mexico, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Congress
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Casino bill would give city unparalleled control
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority...
Tags: Government, Ethics, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Local Government
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Excitement or Extortion? A Guide to Gifting
The Hartford CourantIt's random present-giving season or, as Chaucer put it, "'Tis spring, when small birds make melodies and invitations to sendeth gifties doth impregnate already swollen mailboxes." With all kinds of impending baby and bridal showers — often in that...Tags: Marriage, Blackmail and Extortion, eBay Inc., Father's Day, Family
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Video: Volvo teases mysterious new small crossover
Autoblog.comFiled under: Videos, Crossover, Volvo The image you see above is just about all we know of the new Volvo crossover that will be revealed at 8:30 pm Central European Time on May 17 (2:30 pm Eastern Standard Time). Volvo released three very short video...
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