Member 4079Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day (AP)17-05-2008 10h04AP - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries. Robert Mondavi, California wine pioneer, dies at 94 (AP)17-05-2008 10h05AP - Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94. Texas assesses whether sect 'girls' are adults (AP)17-05-2008 09h59AP - When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex. Survival of quake victims depends on many factors (AP)17-05-2008 07h22AP - A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful earthquake. Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault (AP)17-05-2008 08h00AP - Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Texas: Immigration checks, hurricanes don't mix (AP)17-05-2008 06h05AP - Federal border agents say they will search for illegal immigrants at inland Texas checkpoints even during a hurricane evacuation, a plan state and local officials say could lead to disastrous delays and discourage some people from getting out. Tribe seeks conciliation with SoCal deputies (AP)17-05-2008 07h29AP - The leader of a Southern California Indian tribe and a sheriff's department vowed Friday to work together to lower tensions after three people were killed on the reservation in gun battles with deputies. AP IMPACT: Losing racehorses killed in Puerto Rico (AP)17-05-2008 08h00AP - For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death losers often don't even make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by injection at a clinic behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, said chief veterinarian Jose Garcia. 3.1-magnitude quake reported in Coffeeville, Ala. (AP)17-05-2008 06h49AP - The southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville has been shaken by a small earthquake. FBI: Ohio man wrote threats because ex left him (AP)17-05-2008 06h31AP - A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him for a black man, the FBI said Friday. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 3832 Member 3192 Member 2923 Member 1497 Member 1918 Member 3906 Member 3043 Member 2971 Member 4182 Member 4376 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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