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U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 22, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

machinist.salon.com -- Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT student, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Boston's Logan Airport when officers suspected that a circuit board and battery she had pinned to her sweatshirt was a bomb. Indeed, every news outlet is now referring to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

Washington Post -- A White House privacy board is giving its stamp of approval to two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs _ electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking _ and says they do not violate citizens' civil liberties. Democrats ne.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 10:32am mrmdc

Daily Kos -- Bush is fed up with hearing how his actions and policies violate our privacy rights. True to Bush’s Orwellian worldview, his answer is to create a privacy board to ostensibly protect our rights. In reality, it is Mr. Decider who controls the privacy boa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 8:35am neoform

New York Times -- Peace is fighting back in Pagosa Springs. Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day by their homeowners’ association unless they removed a four-foot wreath shaped like a peace symbol from the front of their house... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 28, 2006 @ 9:24am mrmdc

ABC News -- A Colorado homeowners' association has withdrawn its threat of $25 daily fines against a homeowner who put a Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign on the front of her home... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 3:22pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- The Board of Supervisors voted today to outlaw the use of Styrofoam and other polystyrene products by city restaurants and to effectively decriminalize the use, sale and cultivation of marijuana by adults... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 11:54am neoform

FOX News -- The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday granted a stay of execution for up to 90 days for a man convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. Troy Davis had faced a lethal injection tomorrow before the decision by the board after l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

Washington Post -- The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted 8 to 2 yesterday to help pay for a 23-mile extension of Metro to Dulles International Airport with an overhead track through busy Tysons Corner, angering tunnel advocates but keeping alive plans for traffic-co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Washington Post -- The Maryland Board of Public Works yesterday rejected a wetlands permit for a development of 1,350 homes on an island just east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a project Gov. Martin O'Malley said would be so damaging to the bay it would not be in the state'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 6, 2007 @ 9:19pm neoform

Hardford Courant -- A former Windsor police officer who was fired following an investigation into an incident in which police say he held a .50-caliber pistol to a woman's head and pulled the trigger has been reinstated by the state labor board. Windsor Police Capt. Tom L.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 3:11pm neoform

Washington Post -- Poor judgment and planning by the pilots probably caused the small-plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded yesterday. There were a number of bad decisions.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 2:07pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The four BP oil workers who were filling a vertical tank with chemicals when it exploded in America's worst industrial accident for a generation had all been working 12-hour shifts for more than four weeks without a day off. In a final report into the.. Read More