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Supreme Court Upholds Bar to Texas Execution
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House Bill 48 is intended to allow license owners to avoid "undue hardship," said the sponsor, Rep. Ron Maag.
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BIG BUCKS ON BOTH SIDES
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Weighing inon same-sexmarriage bill
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a judge ruled.
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An attorney for the defendants, Justice Poswa, said the killing was politically motivated and that the defendants, who had been "swept up" by the emotional fervor, deserved a lighter sentence.
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sale of cigarettes
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whose husband was killed and son wounded on the Long Island Rail Road six years ago
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Group insurance benefits are provided under a state law that defines dependent to include an employee's spouse, Bearrows wrote in a memo, and Illinois law defines spouse as a legal wife or husband.
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LAWYERS TRADE BARBS IN CIGARETTE TRIAL
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HAVING survived a legal challenge in State Supreme Court earlier this month, the county's tough, new anti-smoking ordinance is now due to take effect on Sept. 1. Passed by the County Board of Health, the measure is considered one of the strictest in the state.
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U.S. high court blocks execution of killer described as retarded
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HB 1198, sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan, declares marriages between persons of the same sex "absolutely void."
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I am now in the process of creating an outreach campaign, Moms Against Guns, that will organize citizens to push harder for stricter gun registration laws in Pennsylvania. When the campaign launches, we will ask people to answer the question in Yant Kinney's column: "Who'll stand up to fight city gun violence?" We're hoping the answer will be, "I will."
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STATUS OF GUN BILLS
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Simmons disappeared from Raleigh in April 1979 on her way to Tennessee. Her car was found at an Iredell County rest stop. A year later, her skeletal remains were found in woods off N.C. 151 in Candler.
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Voting in favor of the immigration bill were 37 Democrats, seven Republicans and one independent. Voting against: 38 Republicans, 11 Democrats, one independent.
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SMOKED OUT ON 2ND AVE. Bar spillover mess
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SENATE OKAYS SELF-DEFENSE BILL
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"They don't understand, and no one could help her in Uzbekistan," said Kayumova from her apartment in Richmond Hill. "She couldn't go to school there because they don't have special schools."
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MORE EARNINGS o Those with lighter skin have higher salaries, study shows
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AN ARREST TAKES CUFFS OFF DEBATE
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The House bill, like one passed by the Senate in August, tries to halt the influx of illegal aliens by forbidding employers to hire them. The bills would establish civil and criminal penalties for knowingly hiring illegal aliens, but they would also offer legal status to several million illegal aliens who entered the United States before 1980.
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First arrest made under new gun law
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safe storage is required under penalty of law.
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Time for More Gun Regulation
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to ensure that poor defendants have a chance to have the kind of expert assistance that wealthy defendants and state prosecutors could afford.
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Gun Law Amendment
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Illegal guns "are part of the criminal underworld," said Camden County Police Chief Scott Thomson, whose force patrols the city. "They are being used in street crimes. They are being used by gangs to facilitate their drug trade and the violence that goes with it."
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Such a policy would ''control costs'' in a system that is now 40 percent over capacity, Mr. Mauer told the task force, and would ''bring the United States more in line with other industrialized nations.''
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Obama calls for measures to restrict weapons access
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could not find an accessible vein to insert the IV that delivers the lethal drugs.
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The forces rallying against smoking - in public or private - are getting stronger and more insistent:
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Tobacco institute teaches about growers
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'Downloadable Gun' Clears a Legal Obstacle, Alarming Some Activists
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On Wednesday, the court will consider the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, which prohibits gay and lesbian married couples from receiving the same federal benefits afforded heterosexual couples.
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The only thing in short supply was the tobacco.
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except now it's proper in the eyes of the state
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Gun law targets public data
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eight men have been executed for murders committed when they were minors, Streib said. None of those executions were in Georgia.
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by Philip Morris' actions
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whether society's growing acceptance of same-sex unions warrants constitutional protection.
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The Bill of Rights and the constitutions of 43 states protect gun rights in the USA. That's why, just this month, the state court in Colorado overturned as unconstitutional a ban on so-called "assault weapons" in Denver. A ban on guns not only kills your right to own a firearm, but it could kill you.
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'Ashes to Ashes'
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States turn to Texas for execution guidance
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The other case will settle California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in that state after a court had ruled it was legal.
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BRITON REBUTS REAGAN ON USE OF GUNS AND THE DEATH PENALTY
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Obama open to middle-ground deal with GOP on immigration
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Ban on same-sex unions appears likely on Ore. ballot
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mandated background checks.
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, born of the shooting deaths at Virginia Tech,
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Trump open to gun limits
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Bite out of crime
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which seeks unspecified damages
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EXAN IS EXECUTED FOR KILLING OF SIX
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N.J. BANS SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE SALES
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BEATINGS BY DEPUTIES SHOCKED THEIR BOSS SHERIFF VOWS PROBE WON'T BE A COVERUP
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would change the state Constitution to read (additions marked in bold, deletions marked with strikeout):
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Assembly bill sponsor Daniel O'Donnell called on the Senate to show the same "courage" his chamber has in passing the bill three times in recent years.
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PARTNER REGISTRY UNDER POLITICAL SIEGE CLINTON ADDS AMMUNITION TO THE SHELLING SUPERVISORS FACE OVER SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS
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President Clinton's decision last week to allocate $ 15 million in federal funds so police departments can expand those programs was justified.
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I will do everything in my power to provide them with a world without hate and legislative discrimination.
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Following up on a six-week pilot program in Baltimore and Denver, immigration authorities will begin suspending cases at immigration courts across the country.
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The Latino community and the immigrant community are not going to believe him."
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Crimes were committed long before handguns were invented
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Perdue to NRA: 'Choose wisely
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Which Americans support the Second Amendment?
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Ted Nugent says Parkland students 'have no soul,' calls them 'mushy-brained children'
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FORECASTS SHOW LEGAL ALIENS TO RISE IN '96< THE INS SAYS THERE WILL BE 41 PERCENT MORE< IMMIGRANTS - A LARGE INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.
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In 1998, the tobacco industry agreed to pay the states almost $ 250 billion and to stop advertising on billboards or on signs posted in shopping malls, arenas and stadiums. The agreement allowed stores that sell cigarettes to display outdoor signs of no more than 14 square feet.
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Despite intense lobbying, a dozen Democrats refused to support a bill by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would have allowed tens of thousands of same-sex partners to marry, a controversial act that would have given the couples expanded rights to health care, Social Security, and military benefits.
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When Worrell walked into Brock's gun shop, he lied about never having been indicted for a felony, but he supplied his real name. At that point, his past caught up with him --- and a victim who waited more that three decades finally has a chance to see justice done. DNA evidence links Worrell to at least 24 other rapes.
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At Mozilla, a Chief's Support of Gay Marriage Ban Causes Conflict
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United Nations officials insist that this conference is not about taking guns away from Americans, but about keeping hundreds of millions of weapons out of the hands of child soldiers and pickup armies, often in the poorest countries.
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A DRUG BY ANY OTHER NAME
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A UC Berkeley student senator and six other illegal immigrant students arrested at a San Bernardino rally Tuesday were released from custody early Wednesday without triggering a hold from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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SENATE'S FOCUS: SAFETY
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he kept a Bible at his desk
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Six South Florida same-sex couples filed suit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Tuesday, seeking to overturn Florida's ban on gay marriage.
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On the Republican side of the aisle, lawmakers approached by the Daily News stared icily at a reporter and ducked into a senators-only elevator at the Capitol building. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn't even break stride or glance at the headline as a reporter thrust it in his face.
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and the armed robber who has spent most of his life in prison or selling drugs.
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Second Amendment absolutists certainly can. These are the folks who misinterpret the Constitution as guaranteeing Americans the right to pack heat, while prohibiting the government from doing much, if anything, about it.
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Nicotine's power hard to overcome
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Three Council Members Call for Lawsuit Against Gun Makers
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The fall occurred about four miles north of the border here, at Otay Lakes Dam, on a route often used for border crossings. A Border Patrol agent fell to his death there last year.
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is to focus on dismantling the senseless obstacles impeding the bureau's day-to-day functioning.
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Ban on gun sales proposed by mayor of St. Petersburg
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and is based on citizen complaints
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Congress leaves Washington with no action on gun control or school safety
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when United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan lent his support to a massive petition aimed at banning capital punishment around the globe
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The president of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, has said that the company was not endorsing the seminars, merely providing food at them.
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Liggett, the tobacco arm of Brooke Group Ltd. and the sixth-largest cigarette maker in the United States, is raising prices on its premium cigarettes by 40 cents a carton, to $11.19, effective Friday for shipments on Monday, a spokeswoman said. Liggett's premium brands include Chesterfield, Eve, Lark and L.& M.
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pardon based on innocence allows Williams and Jimerson to pursue compensation for false imprisonment
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Be prepared for hospital hassles
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. This morning, the Jordanian national is due on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan for a deportation hearing.
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THE REAL PROBLEM IS THE SMOKE NOT THE SMOKER
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Skin color deeply influences immigration debate
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U.S. IMMIGRATION DELAYS GROW AS FOREIGN AIR TRAVEL SKYROCKETS
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who killed two college students from Japan during a 1994 carjacking.
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After 40 minutes of deliberation, a jury found Charles E. Reddish guilty of capital murder in the hatchet killing of his girlfriend.
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