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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture. The Justice Department memo, date.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

CNN -- A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape. Prosecutors filed the rape charge against Allen Steed, 26, a day after a jury found Jeffs guilty of two.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

SF Gate -- Three friends were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and were shot to death at close range, and a fourth was found about 30 feet away with gunshot and knife wounds to her head, police said. All were from Newark and planned to a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

Sydney Morning Herald -- There will be no more weasling out of eBay sales after a judge today ruled against a man who has been refusing to hand over a $250,000 vintage plane he sold on the online auction site. In a case that reached the NSW Supreme Court, Peter Smythe sued Vin.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 4:50pm neoform

Press Esc -- A veteran who spent 14 months in prison for filing a conscientious objector application against redeployment to Iraq has spoken out against the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence by President Bush. "I was imprisoned for 14 months after trying to a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform

FOX News -- A school crossing guard accused of molesting seven children was charged with more than 1,000 counts of sexual assault. Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday and charged with 305 counts of raping a child, 356 counts of aggravated indecent assault against.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 12:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner. Administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson had argued earlier in his opening s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:24pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- On Thursday relatives of Cho's victims who had been scheduled to appear on NBC cancelled their interviews to protest against the broadcasting of the videos. Police investigating the shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, also criticised the airing of the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Washington Post -- All charges against a U.S. Marine accused of killing five civilians in Haditha, Iraq, have been dismissed, part of a decision that grants him immunity to testify in potential courts-martial for seven other Marines charged in the attack and in an alleged c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

FOX News -- Prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor count Tuesday against a police officer accused of beating a female bartender in an attack videotaped by a surveillance camera, leaving him still facing a felony charge. Anthony Abbate, a 12-year police veteran, appeare.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- Amid the Confederate flags, anti-Yankee bumper stickers and Civil War relics on display at Bob Moates Sport Shop, a counterattack against the North is under way. "Ask about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway" reads a sign taped to the gun shop's register, beck.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 2:40pm neoform

Wired -- Ladyjusticeblue AT&T told an appeals court in a written brief Monday that the case against it for allegedly helping the government spy on its customers should be thrown out, because it cannot defend itself -- even by showing a signed order from the govern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Under the Federal Tort Act, Thursday was the last day.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 10:52am mrmdc

Sun Sentinel -- Criminal charges will not be filed against a Disney employee accused of hitting a teenager while in costume as the character ``Tigger,'' authorities said. The State Attorney's Office announced Thursday that it will not press charges against Michael J... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 29, 2006 @ 12:25am neoform

Globe and Mail -- Renewed fears that the Chinese central bank may be poised to start liquidating its $1-trillion stash of U.S. dollars briefly drove the greenback to a 20-month low against the euro and a two-year low against the British pound in trading yesterday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco prosecutors abandoned a double-murder case Thursday against a 19-year-old Daly City man in connection with a pair of slayings outside a Sunset District pizzeria, saying a key witness now insists authorities have the wrong man. Matthew Owy.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 18, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Police will ask prosecutors to press unspecified charges against the teen driver in last month's car crash that killed two 18-year-old passengers in Gary, Indiana, a spokesman said Wednesday. Cmdr. Sam Roberts said Gary police will ask the Lake County pro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

USA Today -- A 17-year-old Milwaukee boy who was poisoned by lead as a baby faces off today against the nation's leading makers of lead-based house paint, hoping to prove that for half a century they knew their product made people sick. It's the latest in a long st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 11:32pm neoform

Telegraph -- American diplomats have been ordered to compile a dossier detailing Iran's violations of international law that some fear could be used to justify military strikes against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme. Members of the US secretariat in the U.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 2:56pm neoform

Boston Globe -- A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corp.. Read More