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County Fair is â��way of lifeâ�� for Huntsville native

For David Moorman, the Walker County Fair, rodeo is not just an event that happens once a year, is a way of life. Then, the family pulled in Huntsville in the early 70’s, Moorman, at the age of five, began to learn how to lead a successful life, in more ways than one. “We in [...]

Sex Abuse of Native Americans: The Story behind the Facts

When NPR’s Laura Sullivan read in an Amnesty International report that Native American women are two-and-a-half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women, she wanted to know the story behind the facts. For four months, Sullivan followed the case of Leslie Ironroad, a 20-year-old Native American woman who was raped and murdered [...]

ACLU And Civil Rights Lawyers Strike Agreement To Desegregate Hartford Public Schools

HARTFORD - The American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Education Sciences, Inc. (LDF), the Center for Children’s Advocacy lawyers who have cooperated and proposed today an agreement with the State of Connecticut For the implementation of complying with a long view of the Supreme Court of the State to remove racial [...]

Catholic Civil Rights League unhappy with Education Ministry

Making Space, Giving Voice, the project of a shared document in September of last year, the BC Ministry of Education indicating how teachers should teach, diversity and social justice in schools , is a very critical of the reaction Catholic Civil Rights League. CCRL director Sean Murphy has calculated that the department manual, as it [...]

With young accuser dead, lawyers argue over rape case

While pickets carrying signs such as “How many children have to suffer from pedophiles? Wednesday strolled in front of Mobile Government Plaza, inside attorneys grappled over whether the claims of sexual assault a child who is dead now will be allowed to air in a trial. The defendant, former Chickasaw police Cpl. Bob Ingle, accused [...]

Reservists praise new law: â��Itâ��s not the money, itâ��s the principle of appreciationâ��

“This law is a signal that the state is starting to treat us with respect. It said that behind us,” said Major Motti Hofrichter yesterday. “This law comes at the right time, but it may be too little too late, but the law is important, regardless of the material of scale.” Hofrichter serve in the [...]

Californiaâ��s Native Americans deserve quality health care

After seven long years of congressional inaction, the Senate finally passed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, a bill to protect the health and well-being of millions of our nation’s Native Americans. The legislation, which I cosponsored along with its author, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), aims to improve the administration of Indian health programs and [...]

Chinese Court Sentences Civil Rights Activist to Jail

China has issued a reason and dissident to three years in prison, for the subversion of booking fees. For a long time, observers say, his sentence came in record time. VOA’s Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Hu Jia, 34, has agreed on a broad range of sensitive issues, including human rights, Tibet and AIDS. He [...]

Chicago Civil Rights Attorney Dies at 82

CHICAGO (AP) - Eugene R. Pincham, a lawyer long for citizens’ rights, which has helped to win several regulations dollars at the end of two young boys, had been wrongly accused of the killing of a girl aged 11, who died . He was 82 His son, Robert Jr. Eugene Pincham, said Thursday his father [...]

Nov 3 presidential acts not part of Constitution: Naek

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf on November 3 “extra-constitutional route” are not part of the constitution, which Parliament has yet to approve the federal law H Farooq Naek minister said Tuesday. The Daily Times, the minister said that there is no simple, was authorized to amend the Constitution, and that only Parliament can do is a [...]

Cleveland State Coach Suspended After DWI

Jan P. Muczyk, the university's senior vice president for resource planning and campus operations, said President John A. Flower suspended [Kevin Mackey]-who on Wednesday signed a two-year contract worth in excess of $175,000-without pay indefinitely. The university could conduct its own investigation, Muczyk said. When firefighters began making holes in a

Da Offers No Defense, Pleads Guilty To Dwi Charge

Source: ERICA BESHEARS, Staff Writer * Contributor(s): Adam Bell contributed to this article. District Attorney David Flaherty Jr. didn't defend himself against a driving while impaired charge Tuesday morning, choosing instead to plead guilty and accept a standard punishment for first-time offenders. Flaherty, the district attorney for Burke, Caldwell and Catawba

State DWI Law Challenged in Md. High Court

A Gaithersburg man who contends that Maryland's drunken-driving law unfairly caused him to be punished twice took his case to the state's highest court Monday. A lawyer for Ernest Jones argued before the Court of Appeals in Annapolis that the state violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on "double jeopardy" by suspending

Officials say there are possible solutions to the DWI problem, but first ... / Tribal DWI info should be shared / Multiple offenders often get off easy due to lack of cooperative data

The Daily Times FARMINGTON - An officer or district attorney checking the arrest record of an Indian charged with drunken driving may discover a clean background, yet that driver could have multiple tribal offenses that won't show up in any state database, according to officials. State, local, and Navajo Nation

DWI court may face immigration checks: Request made to use sheriff's system to screen program participants.

Oct. 18--Mecklenburg County commissioners Tuesday asked the sheriff to check the immigration status of participants in the county's DWI treatment court and determine whether the program is serving illegal immigrants. Board members also unanimously asked County Manager Harry Jones to investigate the issue, together with an advisory group of city,

Officer Resigns Before Hearing In D.W.I. Case

Police Officer Joseph Gray, accused of running down a pregnant woman, her son and her sister in Brooklyn three weeks ago after an afternoon of drinking in a topless bar, resigned from the Police Department yesterday, just before he was to face an internal disciplinary hearing that would have required

Officer's Retirement May Cause DWI Dismissals.

Dozens of Albuquerque drunken-driving cases could be dismissed because a police officer who handles DWI cases wasn't promptly transferred from his job months before his early retirement, the city police union says. But the Albuquerque Police Department captain who oversees the department's drunken-driving enforcement unit said Tuesday that the officer,

New 'Prompt Suspension' Dwi Law Looks Like It's Going To Stick

It's just become a lot tougher for drunken-driving suspects in Erie County to wriggle their way out of New York State's "prompt suspension" DWI law. Like a judge's gavel demanding order, two recent decisions -- one on Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court and the other in Erie County Court --

Judge sentences four San Juan County men on DWI charges

The Daily Times AZTEC - District Court Judge Thomas Hynes sentenced four San Juan County men who have 18 drunken-driving charges among them, including one whose alcohol content was four times the legal limit. Elvin Hovel pleaded guilty to driving on a suspended or revoked license and driving while intoxicated

Pain of DWI deaths shared.

Sep. 3--At first glance, Debbie Johnson and Angel Ponce might not seem to have much in common. One is a Pearland mother, employed by the Baylor College of Medicine, whose oldest son was killed by a drunken driver. Another is a former gang member, inked with tattoos and confined to