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California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot
Mon,23 Apr 2012 06:56 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California voters will decide in November whether to repeal the state's death penalty after activists collected the more than half a million signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot, the Secretary of State's office said on Monday. The ballot initiative, which focuses on the high cost of the death penalty, would abolish capital punishment as the maximum sentence in murder convictions and replace it with life imprisonment. ... Full Story | Top |
California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot
Mon,23 Apr 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A measure to repeal the death penalty has qualified for the ballot in California after activists collected more than half a million signatures in the state, the Secretary of State's office said on Monday. The measure would abolish capital punishment as the maximum sentence in murder convictions and replace it with life imprisonment, in a move estimated to save the state money in the "high tens of millions of dollars annually." Inmates already sentenced to death would have their terms commuted. (Reporting By Cynthia Johnston; editing by Dan Burns) Full Story | Top |
Two arrested for booby trapping Utah hiking trail
Mon,23 Apr 2012 05:07 PM PDT
Reuters - SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting a couple of crude but potentially deadly booby traps made from sharpened sticks and rocks along a popular Utah hiking trail, police said on Monday. A U.S. Forest Service officer on foot patrol discovered the devices earlier this month after spotting a trip wire on the ground. The traps were crafted from sharpened tree limbs, rock and rope near a fort-like shelter on the Big Springs Trail in Provo Canyon, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. "This looks like something done just for the sake of hurting someone ... ... Full Story | Top |
Noah Wyle arrested at protest in Washington
Mon,23 Apr 2012 04:51 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Actor Noah Wyle was arrested at a healthcare protest in Washington, D.C. on Monday, following in the footsteps of his former "ER" co-star George Clooney, who also taken into police custody at a recent political rally. Wyle, 40, best known for his roles in television dramas "ER" and "Falling Skies," took part in a protest with grassroots organization ADAPT seeking to stop cuts in funding for Medicaid that would affect medical services for the elderly. ...
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Bakken oil booms _ and so does crime on the Plains
Mon,23 Apr 2012 04:30 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Drug crimes in eastern Montana have more than doubled. Assaults in Dickinson, N.D., have increased fivefold in just two years. And the once-sleepy town of Plentywood, Mont., has seen three assaults with weapons in the past few months — a prospect previously unheard of in the tiny community tucked against the Canada border.
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Your Tweets Can Be Subpoenaed
Mon,23 Apr 2012 03:28 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Prosecutors don't have to get a warrant to subpoena your tweets, even if you delete them, because they're public information owned by a third party, a New York judge ruled on Monday. But the lawyer for the Occupy Wall Street protester trying to block a subpoena says the judge mixed up his metaphors in the ruling. Malcolm Harris, who's been fighting a subpoena of his Twitter account, faces as many as 15 days in jail for disorderly conduct after his arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge last November. Full Story | Top |
As Bakken oil booms, so does crime
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:54 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Booming oil production across a wide expanse of the Northern Plains is forcing law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to deal with spiking crimes ranging from drug trafficking and gun offenses to prostitution.
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Crime one of the world's "top 20 economies": U.N.
Mon,23 Apr 2012 10:34 AM PDT
Reuters -  VIENNA (Reuters) - Crime generates an estimated $2.1 trillion in global annual proceeds - or 3.6 percent of the world's gross domestic product - and the problem may be growing, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. "It makes the criminal business one of the largest economies in the world, one of the top 20 economies," said Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), describing it as a threat to security and economic development. ...
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Crime one of the world's "top 20 economies": UN
Mon,23 Apr 2012 07:53 AM PDT
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Crime generates an estimated $2.1 trillion in global annual proceeds - or 3.6 percent of the world's gross domestic product - and the problem may be growing, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. "It makes the criminal business one of the largest economies in the world, one of the top 20 economies," said Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), describing it as a threat to security and economic development. ... Full Story | Top |
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