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Court date set for Wis. suit over nativity scene
A federal court will decide whether Green Bay city officials overstepped their authority by installing a nativity scene atop City Hall last year. The federal court in Green Bay on Wednesday scheduled opening arguments for September 15. The Freedom...Tags: Freedom of Religion, Court Administration, Local Authority, Trials
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Questions remain despite conviction of ex-bin Laden driver
Washington BureauWASHINGTON—The government has been trying to prosecute and convict Salim Ahmed Hamdan for war crimes for five years. On Wednesday, a Guantanamo Bay military jury found Hamdan guilty of supporting terrorism, and he now faces life in prison. So,...Tags: Lawyers, Defense, John McCain, Witnesses, Barack Obama
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News from around Wisconsin at 6:58 p.m. CDT
Federal agencies have poured more than $67 million of disaster relief into Wisconsin following heavy storms and flooding this summer. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday the money includes nearly $45 million from FEMA for housing and...Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Punishment, Michigan, Wisconsin, Murder
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Prince George's raid prompts call for probe
Sun reporterWhen the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes....Tags: Addiction, Police Investigations, Regional Authority, Police, Prince George's County
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Detroit mayor sent to jail after bond violation
Associated Press WritersMayor Kwame Kilpatrick talked about his 12-year-old twin sons watching the court hearing on TV. He described the "incredible" pressure of running an ailing city while also facing felonies. He apologized for traveling to Canada without telling authorities....Tags: Michigan, Lawyers, Defendants, Prosecution, Elections
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Doubts persist on Ivins' guilt
Sun reportersA day after the Justice Department released hundreds of documents purporting to link Bruce E. Ivins to the 2001 anthrax killings, scientists and legal experts criticized the strength of the case and cast doubt on whether it could have succeeded....Tags: University of Maryland, Witnesses, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Police, Prosecution
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Lawyer: Morgan Freeman and wife are divorcing
Morgan Freeman's lawyer says the actor and his wife of 24 years are getting a divorce. Freeman's lawyer, Bill Luckett, told the Memphis Commercial-Appeal newspaper that the divorce action is pending. Freeman's wife is Myrna Colley-Lee. The lawyer...Tags: Road Accidents, Lawyers, Morgan Freeman, Mississippi
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Detroit mayor ordered jailed after bond violation
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada and not informing the court. The ruling Thursday by Judge Ronald Giles came after...Tags: Court Administration, Trials, Court Preliminary, Regional Authority
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Former Chicago alderman Vrdolyak's trial delayed
Former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak's (ver-DOHL'-yaks) trial is postponed until November with defense attorneys saying they need more time after being bombarded with documents by the government. Vrdolyak, once one of the city's top politicians, is accused...Tags: Lawyers, Edward Vrdolyak, Trials
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's day at a glance
A review of what happened Thursday in the case of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who's charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice, all tied to his testimony in a civil trial last year: ------ --District Judge Ronald Giles ordered...Tags: Trials, Judges, Regional Authority, Prisons
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Wis. school linked to address on anthrax envelopes
Associated Press WriterThe fictitious return address left on some envelopes during the 2001 anthrax attacks may have been a reference to a Wisconsin school, investigators say. The significance of the address used in anthrax mailings to Capitol Hill in October 2001 -- "4th...Tags: Wisconsin, Lawyers, Protestant, Christianity, John Ashcroft
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Judge clears way for O'Hare-area demolition
Chicago Tribune reportersA DuPage County judge Thursday gave the City of Chicago permission to begin demolition of more than 500 properties in Bensenville that it has purchased to make way for the O'Hare runway expansion. Before the judge ruled, Bensenville attorney Joseph...Tags: O'Hare, Judges, Bensenville, Air Transportation Industry
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