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U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 3:08pm neoform

Jacksonville.com -- When a neighbor screamed she'd been shot, Colin Bruley grabbed his shotgun, found the victim and began treating her bloodied right leg. Tonnetta Lee survived Tuesday's pre-dawn shooting at her Jacksonville apartment, and her sister and a neighbor p.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Newsday -- A man who spent five years in jail for exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman to the virus. Sean L. Sykes, 33, was sentenced Tuesday. He was found guilty in May of having unprotected sex wit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States. The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legisla.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 8, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- An HIV-positive man who prosecutors say secretly videotaped sexual encounters with 131 young men was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to entice a 15-year-old boy to engage in sex acts. During his trial, prosecutors alleged Willie Atkins knew.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 12:11pm neoform

CNN -- Jurors Tuesday spared the life of a former 911 dispatcher convicted of using a sweet, odorless chemical in antifreeze to kill her boyfriend in 2001 -- the same way she had poisoned her husband six years earlier. Lynn Turner could have faced the death p.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 6:55pm neoform

Dallas News -- Two very different men commit two very different crimes. When both violate probation, there are very different results: The robber gets life; the killer remains free... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- A 24-year-old San Francisco man has been sentenced to 77 years to life in prison after being convicted of a killing that authorities say was part of a gang feud in the city's Western Addition four years ago. A San Francisco jury convicted Kevin Carradi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Two Union City police officers will be honored today for saving the life of a 11-month-old boy who was choking at a shopping center in March. Officers Jimmy Martin and Eric Wittner were on foot patrol at the Union Landing shopping complex March 7 when.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 10, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Heartbroken mourners searched soul and scripture Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot a popular University of North Carolina student body president and cut short a life with such promise. For the hundreds gathered at Athens First United.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The owner of a Menlo Park jewelry store convicted of hiring a man to kidnap, rape and kill one of his employees because she spurned his romantic advances was sentenced today in a Redwood City courtroom to 39 years to life in prison. Ricardo Zambrano, 3.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A 2-year-old Vallejo girl is clinging to life at Children's Hospital in Oakland after she was shot in the head allegedly by her father, Vernon Val Watson, who, police say, killed her mother and then shot himself late Friday night. Watson, 42, who had a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 6:09am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials. Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US auth.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized Thursday for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted. Hadley created the title role in composer John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the lead in Paul McCartn.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:35pm neoform

www.wtop.com -- A man who fatally shot a teenage neighbor because he walked on the man's carefully tended lawn was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Charles Martin, 67, must serve 18 years before he can be considered for parole, Clermont County Common Pleas Judge.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:26pm neoform

FOX News -- A woman who killed an acquaintance and dismembered her body with a chainsaw has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, after a jury decided to spare her life. Daphne Wright, 43, smiled after the verdict was read Wednesday. Wright was convicte.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:48pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The five-to-four decision in a case challenging the constitutionality of a ban on what critics call "partial birth abortion" is a reflection of the impact of the recent addition to the US high court of two conservative justices appointed by George Bush, t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

USA Today -- —The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that governments can ban a particular abortion procedure, in a decision Wednesday that emphasized the value of fetal life over a woman's right to end a pregnancy. The 5-4 decision, upholding Congress' ban on.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 12:35pm neoform

Alter Net -- Americans shamefully imagine that spending a life sentence in solitary confinement could only happen in faraway countries. But two men in Louisiana's Angola prison know otherwise. Around midday today, Central Time, two men in Angola Prison in Louisiana.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:18pm neoform

FOX News -- A judge granted a family's request to keep their critically ill baby alive, ruling Tuesday that the boy should not yet be removed from life support as the hospital planned. Children's Hospital of Austin has been caring for 17-month-old Emilio Gonzales.. Read More