Gas price climbs 12 cents in two weeks
Gasoline costs rise as the Energy Information Administration reports the national average at 1.66 a gallon, up 12 cents in two weeks. Higher prices hit Chicago cabs and drivers, with shortages of reformulated gas expected to boost costs in California and Midwest cities this summer.
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California
Southeast
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Energy Merchant LLC
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Texas
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Supreme Court allows arrest for minor traffic offenses
The court ruled 5 to 4 that police may arrest and handcuff motorists for violations punishable only by a fine, such as not wearing a seat belt. Gail Atwater’s arrest in Lago Vista, Texas, was upheld as reasonable and not a Fourth Amendment violation, though dissent argued it was unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court
Texas
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Atwater
Lago Vista
Michael Haas
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Souter
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Anthony M. Kennedy
Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia
Sandra Day O'Connor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Paul Stevens
O'Connor
Submarine commander reprimanded for crash in Pearl Harbor
Cmdr Scott Waddle faced a Navy court of inquiry over the Greeneville collision with a Japanese fishing vessel that killed nine. He testified without immunity and received a reprimand for dereliction and negligent hazarding, plus pay penalties suspended, avoiding a court martial. Lt. j.g. Michael Coen and Lt. Cmdr Gerald Pfeifer also avoided court martial amid mixed reactions in Japan.
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Navy
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Waddle
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U.S
Thomas Fargo
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Perma
Fargo
J.g. Michael Coen
Cmdr
Gerald Pfeifer
Japan
Kazuhiko Koshikawa
Yoshiro Mori
Uwajima Fisheries High School
Tokyo
Hirohisa Ishibashi
Uwajima
Veneman urges broad farm policy input from consumers and groups
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman told agricultural journalists that lawmakers rewriting federal farm programs should include not only farmers but consumers retailers and food processors. She noted foot and mouth disease in Europe as an argument for funding protection programs and said conservation trade and food safety must be considered. She gave no timeline for easing the EU livestock export ban and discussed the 1996 Freedom to Farm law and recent emergency aid totaling about 25 billion dollars.
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Agriculture
Ann Veneman
Veneman
Europe
European Union
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U.S
Britain
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