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Hearing set on lawsuits over CPS closings
A day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut 49 elementary schools, a federal judge on Thursday scheduled a four-day hearing in July on two lawsuits that seek to halt the closings. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Justice System, Separation of Church and State
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Barnard man sentenced to prison
A Barnard man who led law enforcers on a high-speed chase that ended in the field in northern Brown County has been sentenced to prison. Andrew J. Goldade, 25, pleaded guilty to aggravated eluding and drunken driving. The charges stem from incidents...Tags: Fines, Sex Crimes, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Criminal Laws, Health and Medical Professionals
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Man Who Raped Runner In West Hartford Gets 18 Years In Prison
The Hartford Courant— Before a judge sentenced Eddie Monroig-Rosario on Thursday to 18 years in prison for the brutal rape of a runner in West Hartford in October 2010, the victim expressed dissatisfaction with the plea agreement, the sentence and the way she was...Tags: Judges, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, West Hartford
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Police rescue New York man, held captive for a month in warehouse
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Acting...Tags: Portugal, Kidnapping, Defendants, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Mexican drug cartel commander pleads guilty in 2011 ambush
WASHINGTON — A top Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in the 2011 ambush attack south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and three other defendants also admitted their...
Tags: Defendants, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Los Zetas Cartel
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State will not seek death penalty in death of SW Missouri woman
NEVADA, Mo. (AP) - The state says it will not seek the death penalty against a farmhand in the death of a southwest Missouri woman. But prosecutors say they have not yet made that decision for the victim's estranged husband, Bob T. Beisely II. The...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment, Trials
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Lincoln County District Court news from April 15
Cases in Lincoln District Court. List includes all names of those charged who are not identified as minors. 4/15/13 Jennifer Adams, unlawful transaction with minor 3rd degree. Dismissed with leave. Milton Adams, unlawful transaction with minor 3rd...
Tags: Theft, Trials
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Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown
ReutersHAVANA (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption. The closed trial of 53-year-old Sarkis Yacoubian,...Tags: International Trade, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Police Arrests, Justice System
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Illinois business urges federal court to lift contraception mandate
Lawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First...
Tags: Judges, Health Treatments, Laws, Separation of Church and State, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
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Hearing set in lawsuits over Chicago Public Schools closings
Tribune reporterA day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut down 50 schools, a federal judge today scheduled a four-day hearing in July to decide whether to halt the closures. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee is likely to include...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Justice System, Separation of Church and State
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York City homicide charges forwarded to court
The York Dispatch, Pa.A York City woman testified Friday that she watched through her window as her friend was shot multiple times while running toward her home in the 400 block of West Princess Street. Edward Leon Green, 46, stumbled in and fell to the floor, later dying...Tags: Theft, Shootings, York (York, Pennsylvania), Trials
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