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U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

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 Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

USA Today -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:31pm neoform

www.floridatoday.com -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 9:18am neoform

blogs.tampabay.com -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 1:25am neoform

Associated Press -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 8:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 2:28pm neoform

SF Gate -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 9:48am neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

FOX News -- 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. "The evidence speaks.. Read More