Senate panel rejects pants sagging crime bill in Louisiana
The Louisiana Senate panel rejected a bill that would criminalize wearing pants low showing undergarments or intimate areas. Violators faced up to 175 dollars and eight days of community service.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Louisiana
Derrick Shepherd
Yvonne Dorsey
Polygamist Children Move to Faraway Foster Homes
In San Angelo Texas more than 400 children from a polygamist compound were taken to group homes and other distant foster care facilities. About 114 children were loaded onto buses by Tuesday with 300 remaining at the coliseum undergoing DNA testing and awaiting possible relocation. State officials coordinate custody and treatment plans while attorneys from across the state assist, amid concerns of separation from families and cooperation challenges.
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San Angelo
Texas
West Texas
Rity
Coliseum
Guy Choate
State
Eldorado Courthouse
Cynthia Martinez
World food crisis looms amid rising prices and protests
At a London summit World Food Programme chief Josette Sheeran warns of a looming global hunger crisis threatening millions. Rising rice costs and 83 percent price increases over three years fuel unrest from Cameroon to Bangladesh as leaders like Gordon Brown seek solutions.
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London
Josette Sheeran
WFP
India
China
Caribbean
Africa
Asia
World Bank
Sheeran
Gordon Brown
Brown
Malaysia
Indonesia
Cameroon
Haiti
Jacques Edouard Alexis
Bangladesh
United States and Iran Bypass Each Other at Iraq Neighbors Meeting
In Kuwait City, U S and Iran offered no direct engagement as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki pressed for loans and diplomacy from rich Arab states. Rice and Mottaki avoided a handshake while ministers debated debt relief and security aid at the third Iraqi neighbors conference.
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Kuwait
United States
Iran
Iraq
Tehran
Baghdad
Condoleezza Rice
Rice
Manoucher Mottaki
Nouri al-Maliki
Mattaki
al- Maliki
Hoshyar Zebari
Zebari
Syria
Neighbors block Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe
Southern African nations barred the freighter An Yue Jiang from docking to prevent arms use against Mugabe opponents. Church and human rights groups pressed for action as reports cited torture and killings after the March 29 election, with U S pressure aiding the refusal.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe
Union
Church
Africa
An Yue Jiang
United States
Mugabe
Washington
State Department
Mozambique
Angola
Namibia
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