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| New rules adopted for credit-rating agencies |
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Federal regulators on Wednesday adopted new rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for Wall Street's credit-rating industry, widely faulted for its role in the subprime ...
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| Woman Sentenced In Child Abuse Case |
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A central Kentucky woman who pleaded guilty to sexually and physically abusing three girls she adopted has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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| Simpson, co-defendant face 18 years at sentencing |
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State authorities are recommending that O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers, according to documents filed Tuesday. Lawyers for the former NFL star and Clarence 'C.J' Stewart filed briefs asking Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass for minimum prison terms of six years when she sentences the two men Friday. A brief filed by Stewart's lawyer refers to a confidential recommend...
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| EPA backs rule easing mining waste disposal |
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But the EPA said it did so because it secured additional safeguards. The governors of Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as other lawmakers from those states, had urged EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to block ...
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| District Attorney E-mails |
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Former Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal will not face criminal charges stemming from an e-mail scandal during his final months of office.
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| Bush: Let Indian Point use river water |
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on today to let New York's Indian Point and other older power plants draw in billions of gallons of water for cooling without installing technology ...
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| Bullet in Head |
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A Port Arthur teenager has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a case that made world headlines when police wanted to remove a bullet from his forehead to prove he tried to kill a man.
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| Colo. man charged with libel over Craigslist posts |
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A man accused of making unflattering online comments about his former lover and her attorney on Craigslist has been charged with two counts of criminal libel. 'It's not a charge you see a lot of,' Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson said of the 1800s-era state law that can put people in jail for the content of their speech or writing. Abrahamson charged J.P. Weichel, 40, of Loveland, in October over posts he allegedly made on Craigslist's 'Rants and Rave' section.
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