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Saturday February 4, 2012
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Crimes and Courts News
Crime & Courts
Updated: 2 hours 38 min ago DE: Board of Parole asks finance committee to restore fundingThe state's embattled Board of Parole asked budget drafters Thursday to reinstate its dedicated funding stream next fiscal year, allowing the panel to pay for administrative help and maintain its independence from the Department of Correction.
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GA: Ga. House expects vote on $18.6B state budgetGeorgia would spend $300 million on a toll highway meant to alleviate congestion in metro Atlanta and assist farmers who say they are struggling to find enough workers following the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants under an $18.6 billion budget plan proposed Thursday by House lawmakers.
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KY: Panel passes bill to verify worker legalityA bill requiring state and local governments, schools and businesses with government contracts to use an online federal program to verify that employees aren't in the country illegally passed the House Labor and Industry Committee on Thursday.
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KY: Wide-ranging bill would clamp down on prescription drug abuseDoctors and others who prescribe narcotic painkillers in Kentucky would be required to use the state's prescription-drug monitoring system under wide-ranging legislation introduced Thursday to combat prescription-drug abuse.
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KY: A sea of drugsThe summit Wednesday at the University of Kentucky on prescription drug abuse and addiction captured the severity and extent of an appalling problem.
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MS: Killer to fight return to Miss.A convicted murderer who left Mississippi after being pardoned by former Gov. Haley Barbour seems poised to fight attempts to force him to return from Wyoming.
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MS: Bill on reporting sex abuse OK'dSupporters say a bill that passed in the Mississippi House on Thursday is aimed at stopping sexual abuse of minors, including cases involving underage girls who are impregnated by men age 20 or older.
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NH: Judge rejects law seeking to reform state pensionsThe ink was barely dry yesterday on a Merrimack County Superior Court decision saying it is illegal to ask longtime state employees to contribute more from their paychecks for their pensions before talk of a possible appeal began.
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VT: Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee hears warrant testimony Feb. 3, 2012 | CommentsMembers of the Senate Judiciary Committee got a peek Thursday at search warrants for two of the state's highest-profile homicide cases in the last 32 years as they grappled with trying to ensure public accountability for court-ordered searches.
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AK: Alaska Dems go against Supreme Court on spendingAlaska Democratic lawmakers Wednesday proposed a move toward amending the U.S. Constitution to ban unlimited third-party spending in campaigns.
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AL: Alabama Senate's top Republican donates to bingo trial figure Quinton Ross' legal fundThe Republican leader of the Alabama Senate said Thursday he helped pay the legal bills of a Democratic senator acquitted of all charges in Alabama's gambling corruption investigation.
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AL: GOP leader helps pay Sen. Ross' legal feesThe Republican leader of the Alabama Senate said Thursday he helped pay the legal bills of a Democratic senator acquitted of all charges in Alabama's gambling corruption investigation.
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AR: Bill expands state Parole Board denialState Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, said Wednesday that he wants the Legislature to pass a bill in this month's fiscal session to give the Arkansas Board of Parole authority to deny parole to people convicted of felony sex offenses.
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AR: State Supreme Court upholds vehicle search, overturns Court of AppealsThe Arkansas Supreme Court said today in a 4-2 ruling that a state trooper had reasonable suspicion to detain a Lawrence County woman and search her vehicle, overturning a Court of Appeals ruling that the detention and search were illegal.
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AZ: Pearce files paperwork that would let him run for election againRecalled Senate President Russell Pearce has filed paperwork with the Secretary of State's Office that would allow him to seek a return to the Legislature.
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CA: Reversal on same-sex marriage trial tapesA federal appeals court refused Thursday to release videotapes of the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban.
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CA: Judges bar viewing of gay marriage trial videos -- -what they're protectingA federal appeals court rejected the release of video recordings of a landmark gay marriage trial, saying the trial judge's order to keep them under wraps must be honored to preserve judicial integrity.
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FL: Opponents to prison privatization should hold firmIt's easy to tell when Florida's leaders in Tallahassee are trying to ram through legislation that would not pass on its merits. First they try to sneak it through. Once caught, they change the rules and play with the financial numbers. Then the governor calls in opponents to twist arms. And finally, legislative leaders punish those who won't get on board.
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IA: Concerns raised over 'social host' and underage alcohol consumption billAn alcohol-control bill expanding minor-in-possession laws and creating criminal penalties for adults who allow young people to drink faltered in a House committee this afternoon.
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IN: Indiana election chief's defense rests in fraud caseIndiana Secretary of State Charlie White's defense lawyer rested Thursday without presenting a case against voter fraud charges that could oust White from office.
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