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Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/us/appeals_court_judge_refuse_to_st/ Attempts by conservative opponents to halt same-sex marriage in California before the November election failed Tuesday when both a state appeals court and a Sacramento trial judge refused to block local officials from issuing marriage licenses to gay coup news us 2008-06-18 08:13:48 http://www.newsique.com/us/appeals_court_judge_refuse_to_st/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/314068351/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/appeals_court_judge_refuse_to_st/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/sect_investigation_moving_to_cou/ An investigation of abuse at the private ranch of a polygamous sect is moving to a San Angelo courthouse this week as the state argues to retain custody of 416 children removed from their parents. Texas bar officials say more than 350 attorneys from ac news us 2008-04-14 08:13:51 http://www.newsique.com/us/sect_investigation_moving_to_cou/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/269785529/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/sect_investigation_moving_to_cou/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/custody_hearings_planned_for_sec/ An investigation of abuse at the private ranch of a polygamous sect is moving to a Texas courthouse this week as the state argues to retain custody of 416 children removed from their parents. Texas bar officials say more than 350 attorneys from across the news us 2008-04-14 08:13:41 http://www.newsique.com/us/custody_hearings_planned_for_sec/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/14/polygamist.retreat.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [12] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/custody_hearings_planned_for_sec/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/sf_ban_on_handguns_dealt_a_final/ The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco's voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms. The court's unanimous order news us 2008-04-10 08:14:24 http://www.newsique.com/us/sf_ban_on_handguns_dealt_a_final/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/267401620/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/sf_ban_on_handguns_dealt_a_final/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/25-to-life_term_upheld_in_latest/ A man who tried to burn his 6-year-old son to death in 1983 was properly sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under the "three strikes" law for two recent weapons convictions, a state appeals court ruled today. The First District Court of Appeal in news us 2008-01-30 08:20:33 http://www.newsique.com/us/25-to-life_term_upheld_in_latest/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/225522895/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/25-to-life_term_upheld_in_latest/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/choose_life_license_plate_ruled_/ An Arizona anti-abortion group's right of free speech was violated when the state refused to issue specialty license plates with the message "Choose Life," a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Reversing a judge's decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court news us 2008-01-29 08:10:16 http://www.newsique.com/us/choose_life_license_plate_ruled_/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/224779576/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/choose_life_license_plate_ruled_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/fire_chief_says_state_unprepared/ Unable to slow, much less stop, many of the wildfires that have charred Southern California, some local officials lashed out Tuesday at what they described as state authorities who offered inadequate help and seemed unprepared for a foreseeable disaster. news us 2007-10-24 08:15:25 http://www.newsique.com/us/fire_chief_says_state_unprepared/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/174100436/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/fire_chief_says_state_unprepared/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/texas_students_now_pledge_allegi/ The Houston Chronicle says Texas has added the phrase "one state, under God" to its pledge of allegiance. Since 2003, students in the Lone Star State have been required to begin their day by pledging allegiance to the state and federal governments. Stu news us 2007-10-03 14:29:33 http://www.newsique.com/us/texas_students_now_pledge_allegi/ USA Today http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/08/texas-students-.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/texas_students_now_pledge_allegi/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/inmate_burned_in_prison_gasoline/ A state prisoner was badly burned early Tuesday when another inmate threw gasoline on him and set him aflame. Robert Smith 42, was in his bunk in an open barracks when he was attacked around 4 a.m., Correction Department spokeswoman Dina Tyler said. news us 2007-09-04 15:49:43 http://www.newsique.com/us/inmate_burned_in_prison_gasoline/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/152170724/2007-09-04-inmate-burned_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Shocking [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/inmate_burned_in_prison_gasoline/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/statute_forbids_issue-oriented_p/ Florida elections officials will begin enforcing a law which changes the state's "rules of political engagement": campaigns can't ask voters about the issues. For example, political committees that push or want to defeat ballot initiatives, such as cha news us 2007-08-29 20:31:04 http://www.newsique.com/us/statute_forbids_issue-oriented_p/ www.floridatoday.com http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/NEWS01/708280342/1006 Shocking [21] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/statute_forbids_issue-oriented_p/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/freed_man_faces_new_trial_in_vic/ The Hillsborough State Attorney's Office has decided not to drop charges against Mark O'Hara, who was freed from prison after an appeals court said he deserved a new trial. O'Hara's lawyer, Ira Berman, angrily stormed out of the courthouse after a brie news us 2007-08-14 09:18:36 http://www.newsique.com/us/freed_man_faces_new_trial_in_vic/ blogs.tampabay.com http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2007/08/freed-man-faces.html Shocking [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/freed_man_faces_new_trial_in_vic/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/south_dakota_carries_out_first_e/ A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state's first execution in 60 years. Elijah Page gave up his appea news us 2007-07-12 08:40:30 http://www.newsique.com/us/south_dakota_carries_out_first_e/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289038,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Important [10] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/south_dakota_carries_out_first_e/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/law_requires_nm_to_grow_its_own_/ New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution - as 11 other states do - but requires New Mexico to oversee a product news us 2007-07-01 01:25:23 http://www.newsique.com/us/law_requires_nm_to_grow_its_own_/ Associated Press http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEDICAL_MARIJUANA?SITE=WHIZ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://www.newsique.com/sources/ap/ 95 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/law_requires_nm_to_grow_its_own_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/judge_who_fixed_divorce_cases_se/ An ex-judge who accepted expensive gifts in exchange for helping fix divorce cases and a former state lawmaker convicted in a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate were sentenced to prison Tuesday. Former Brooklyn state Supreme Court Justice Gerald news us 2007-06-06 13:06:06 http://www.newsique.com/us/judge_who_fixed_divorce_cases_se/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/06/judge.prison.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/judge_who_fixed_divorce_cases_se/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/ On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town's lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it's news us 2007-05-28 20:04:54 http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/ Yahoo News http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070528/lone_liquor_store.html?.v=2 http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/prisons_budget_poised_to_trump_s/ As the costs for fixing the state's troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone -- for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities. news us 2007-05-21 14:28:24 http://www.newsique.com/us/prisons_budget_poised_to_trump_s/ SF Gate http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/21/PRISONS.TMP http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Shocking [16] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/prisons_budget_poised_to_trump_s/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/new_york_may_give_strippers_a_li/ New York's strippers may soon have a real license to thrill. State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, proposed legislation Monday which would require the state's exotic dancers to obtain a permit to ply their trade or face a fine. The "Dance Perfo news us 2007-05-10 23:15:53 http://www.newsique.com/us/new_york_may_give_strippers_a_li/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271318,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Interesting [11] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/new_york_may_give_strippers_a_li/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/sperm_donor_to_lesbians_ordered_/ A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple conceive two children is liable for child support under a state appellate court ruling that a legal expert believes might be the first of its kind in the U.S. A Superior Court panel last week ordered a Dauphin news us 2007-05-10 09:48:55 http://www.newsique.com/us/sperm_donor_to_lesbians_ordered_/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271116,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Shocking [22] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/sperm_donor_to_lesbians_ordered_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/broken_ball_means_extra_lotto_wi/ State lottery players got a second chance to win after officials discovered a ball used in the MATCH 6 lotto drawing had broken into pieces. A second off-air drawing was held Tuesday night and the state said it would pay off winning tickets for both se news us 2007-05-02 16:51:28 http://www.newsique.com/us/broken_ball_means_extra_lotto_wi/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lottery_glitch http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Amazing [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/broken_ball_means_extra_lotto_wi/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/kent_state_tape_reveals_orders_t/ A static-filled recording of war protesters yelling, followed by a voice and gunfire, was released Tuesday by a Kent State University shooting survivor who claims the tape proves a military order was given to fire on demonstrators. 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