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2 hrs ago | Penticton Herald

Investigator wants Balloon Boy parents barred from making money off spectacle

The parents who pulled off the balloon boy hoax are already facing the prospect of jail time and paying tens of thousands of dollars in restitution over their stunt.

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Related Topix: Larimer County, CO, Criminal Defense Law, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

7 hrs ago | Gouverneur Times

Abortion looms as possible health bill deal killer

The House health care bill would bar any health plan that receives federal money from covering abortions.

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Related Topix: Abortion, US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Bart Stupak, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Healthcare Law

11 hrs ago | WYOW-TV Eagle River

NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help

Two EMTs on a coffee break who failed to help a dying pregnant woman acted "to the best of their abilities," their lawyer said Tuesday, while the woman's mother condemned them as "inhuman." The EMTs, Jason Green and Melissa Jackson, were suspended without pay and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation into the case.State ...

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law

Tue Dec 22, 2009

WIS-TV Columbia

McMaster, others to probe health care bill deals

The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina's attorney general said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Carolina Government, Healthcare Law

CBS 47

Two fugitives sought in torture of boy, age 5

APPLE VALLEY, Calif. a " Authorities are searching for a man and a woman who are accused of torturing a 5-year-old boy for five months at a San Bernardino County home.Sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire said Tuesday that $1 million arrest warrants have been issued for 28-year-old Crystal Pauline Rodriguez and 32-year-old Martin Roland ...

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Related Topix: Apple Valley, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Los Angeles Metro

KKCO-TV Grand Junction

Bennet criticizes ``backroom deals'' in health bill

" Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is criticizing "backroom deals" made to ensure the passage of the health care bill but the Democrat says he will still vote for the legislation.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson, Healthcare Law

Bexhill Today

Woman faces paedophile charges

A woman has appeared in court accused of child abuse offences in connection with convicted paedophile Colin Blanchard.

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Related Topix: Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), United Kingdom, Merseyside County, England,

KNDU

Concessions lawmakers won in the health bill

Here's a look at some of the concessions lawmakers and interest groups won in the latest version of the Senate's health care overhaul bill: ___ LAWMAKERS: SEN.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Healthcare Law, Medicaid, Health, Max Baucus, Libby, MT

FindLaw

Fla. man on lam for 30 years arrested in Mo.

Oscar Richardson was a 61-year-old father living a low-key life in Missouri, working as a handyman when he was arrested over the weekend, accused of escaping a Florida prison 30 years ago.

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Related Topix: Ridgedale, MO, Criminal Defense Law

Mon Dec 21, 2009

KSDK NewsChannel 5

Teenager accused of stabbing man with ice pick for parking spot

A southwest Missouri teenager is accused of stabbing a man with an ice pick in a dispute over a parking spot.

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Related Topix: Greene County, MO, Springfield, MO, Criminal Defense Law

VillageSoup

Marshall gets one to three years in prison

Anthony Marshall and his wife, Charlene, face judgment day Monday in the sentencing for cheating his mother, Brooke Astor, out of her estate.

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons, Criminal Defense Law, Northeast Harbor, ME

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

RI gov wants $4M cut to hospitals amid recession

Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed cutting millions of dollars meant to reimburse hospitals for providing health care to the poor during a recession that has cost thousands of Rhode Island residents their jobs and employer-provided health insurance.

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Related Topix: Rhode Island, Rhode Island Government, Health Insurance, Health, US News, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Healthcare Law

ABC News - Brian Ross

EPA, USDA Push Farmers to Use Coal Waste on Fields

The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Science

KMOV-TV Saint Louis

Mo. teen charged with murder gets new lawyers

A Missouri teenager charged with killing her 9-year-old neighbor has new lawyers.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Jefferson City, MO, Cole County, MO

Sun Dec 20, 2009

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Comparison of Senate, House health care bills

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: --- The Senate Democratic bill : WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 - compared with 83 percent now.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Healthcare Law, Medicare, Health, Medicaid

KansasCity.com

Neb.'s Nelson sees backlash on health reform plan

It was the concern of Nebraska's Republican governor over expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care overhaul bill that led to a compromise to cover his state's estimated $45 million share over a decade, U.S. Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Lee Terry, US News, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Senator Mike Johanns, Nebraska, Nebraska Government

Athens Banner-Herald

Judge mulls pivotal issues in Kan. abortion trial

A judge is weighing a critical legal question in the case of a man who confessed to killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers: Can the man claim at his trial that the slaying was justified to save the lives of unborn children? Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man, is charged with one count of premeditated, ...

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Related Topix: Abortion, Criminal Defense Law, University of Kansas

Free Republic

Book: Prosecutors were prepared to indict Clintons

Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.

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Related Topix: Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Bill Clinton, History in the News, Criminal Defense Law

Burlington Free Press

Parker column: Left, right find common foe in Obama

Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Healthcare Law, Medicare, Health, Harriet Miers, Opinion

New York Times

Justices Revisit Their Ruling Forcing Lab Analysts to Testify

Virginia Hernandez Lopez admitted to knocking back two shots of tequila with Sprite chasers on an August night in Julian, Calif., a couple of years ago.

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Related Topix: US News, Criminal Defense Law, US Supreme Court, Drugs

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