Ex Alabama governor approved for release
Appeals say the former governor has been serving a sentence at a federal prison in Oakdale Louisiana. The filing notes Yale mistakenly confirmed an art history doctorate in 2005 and argues the degree confirmation was a forgery amid a probe from Dongguk University.
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Shin Jeong-ah
Dongguka University
Puerto Rico governor faces political indictment case
Puerto Rico governor Manuel Rivera is charged in a case that prosecutors say aims to politically damage him and a dozen others over alleged illegal campaign debt payments. FBI agents arrested many at the governor’s residence as his wife and children were present. he plans to turn himself in Friday. The report cites similar cases involving Eliot Spitzer and Don Siegelman as examples of politically motivated prosecutions.
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U.S. envoy says Washington will not shield Musharraf
Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte told reporters in Karachi that the United States will not interfere in Pakistan’s internal politics to save President Pervez Musharraf. He cautioned that talks with pro-Taliban groups are up to Pakistan’s new government and warned against negotiating with irreconcilable elements. The United States has provided about 10 billion in aid since 2001 as Pakistan faces a new coalition after Feb elections.
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Mother killed children then brandished gun at university
Police say Gail Coontz, 37, killed her two children aged 14 and 10 then went to the nearby University of Louisville campus, brandished a handgun at an officer, and surrendered the weapon to a health counselor. No injuries occurred during the college threat. Coontz is charged with murder and terroristic threatening.
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Chicago students get police escorts this week
Chicago police will escort students to and from Crane Tech High School under Operation Safe Passage amid rising violence. Since September twenty CPS students have been killed, mirroring a sharp two year rise that has spurred expanded patrols and impending live access to security cameras inside and outside schools.
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Abu-Jamal avoids execution but verdict stands for now
A three judge Third Circuit panel upheld Mumia Abu-Jamals first degree murder conviction in the 1981 Faulkner killing and ordered a new sentencing hearing or life imprisonment within six months. The court rejected efforts for a new trial and left open Batson race claims for possible future action.
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