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Obstruction trial for ex-police detective opens
The obstruction of justice trial began Monday against embattled former Spokane police detective Jeff Harvey. Harvey was fired this year after being charged with a gross misdemeanor following a confrontation with a state Department of Fish and Wildlife
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:05A
Obstruction trial for ex-police detective opens
The obstruction of justice trial began Monday against embattled former Spokane police detective Jeff Harvey. Harvey was fired this year after being charged with a gross misdemeanor following a confrontation with a state Department of Fish and Wildlife
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:05A
US violent crime falls 6% as trend down continues
The number of those arrested, excluding traffic violations, was 13.1 million. Of those, 74.5 percent were male and 69.4 percent were white. Killings in Arizona jumped by about 16 percent last year despite a decrease nationwide, new FBI statistics show.
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Latest Virginia Sports
By: AP ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Mike Shanahan isn't shy about going for it on fourth down. It paid off Sunday when the Washington Redskins scored a touchdown on fourth-and-3 from the 18-yard line in the fourth quarter against the Arizona Cardinals,
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Last 9/11 death suit settled | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-09-20
AP NEW YORK - The last wrongful-death lawsuit remaining from the Sept. 11 terror attacks has been resolved with a settlement, an attorney for the family of a passenger on the jet that hijackers flew into the World Trade Center's South Tower said Monday
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Arizona laws that target day laborers may be moot
PHOENIX - Arizona communities may no longer be able to enforce city laws making it illegal to seek donations or jobs from motorists in passing cars. A new court ruling on Friday struck down not only an anti-solicitation law by a California community,
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Arizona laws that target day laborers may be moot
PHOENIX - Arizona communities may no longer be able to enforce city laws making it illegal to seek donations or jobs from motorists in passing cars. A new court ruling on Friday struck down not only an anti-solicitation law by a California community,
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
FBI: Violent crime drops for fourth year
Last week, the US Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that the number of violent crimes fell by a surprising 12 percent in 2010 and that there were 3.8 million violent crimes last year. The Justice Statistics survey of households
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Group looks to find number of untested rape kits in US
Natasha's Justice Project, based on New York's Long Island, believes there could be as many as 180000 untested rape kits in the US, said founder Natasha Alexenko. Her group, Stony Brook University researchers and a consulting firm named Strategic
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A
Sacramento County fails again to stave off wrongful-death suit
Lawyers for Sacramento County failed again Monday to knock out a $14.5 million wrongful- death lawsuit filed over a conservator's decision to put a paranoid schizophrenic with a 20-year history of violence into an Oak Park group home.
Updated: 09/20/2011 03:04A