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Judge grants more time to woman in Bob Hope TSA dispute
A federal judge has warned a woman who tussled with a transportation security agent at Bob Hope Airport over her 93-year-old mother's applesauce that she must file an amended complaint. Nadine Hays of Camarillo has filed three motions — all of...
Tags: Bob Hope, Justice System, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants
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Four years later, survivors of Metrolink crash still hurting
Like other survivors from the crash of Metrolink 111, Mike Wiederkehr will never be the same. Before, the Burbank resident was a triathlete. After, he could no longer swim or run because of shoulder, knee and ankle injuries. He had to transfer from his...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Injuries and Wounds, Los Angeles Times
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Burb's Eye View: Cookies, memories and our local veterans
Doris Vick's dental drill was busted, and the strapping young technician who came to fix it was having a heck of a time. This was one of those foot-pedal-powered drills, she recalls. The World War II-era technology was state of the art at the time; it...Tags: PTA, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, U.S. Army, Armed Conflicts
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Review: 'Free the Mind' documentary finds hope in meditation
There's something healing about simply watching "Free the Mind," Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary spotlighting the use of such drug-free options as meditation and mindfulness to treat anxiety and trauma. Writer-director...Tags: Movies, Culture, Arts and Culture, Social Sciences
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Judge: Texts can be used in Jerome murder trial
Daily American Staff WriterA Somerset County judge will allow text messages between homicide suspect Erin Nicole Everett and her co-defendant, William Stanley Nair, to be used at trial. In April President Judge John M. Cascio heard arguments both for and against the use of the...Tags: Justice System, Shootings, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants
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Veterans, advocates brace for cutbacks
The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Rentals, Consumer Confidence
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: Suicide, Medical Research, Explosions, U.S. Army, Epidemics and Plagues
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Cannes Film Festival projects cross-cultural cinema
— Invariably, the Cannes Film Festival chooses a striking image for its official annual poster. But the 2013 version can be seen as a particularly apt metaphor for the dual nature of the world's most essential cinema event. Paris-based graphic...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sundance Film Festival, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Florida should stop putting its youths in solitary confinement
The time is now to end solitary confinement of Florida's youth. Several years ago, I taught English as a second language to students from all over the world. Two young students, newly arrived and excited to see the United States, decided to do some...Tags: FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Tampa, Teaching and Learning
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Diabetes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Heart Disease, Harvard University, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971)
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Ozarks woman sexually assaulted in military is encouraged by calls for change
lrussell@ky3.comMARSHFIELD, Mo. -- The shocking numbers released this week of sexual assaults in U.S. military services come as no surprise to one woman here. She is one of the thousands of sexual assult victims. It happened to Carrie Watkins 30 years ago, but she...Tags: Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior, Washington, DC, Sexual Assault, U.S. Military
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2 moms divided by murder trial
The two mothers passed in the hallway every morning. They never spoke, and they avoided eye contact, but each was keenly aware of the other. Both dutifully took their places in the two front rows of Courtroom 202, behind a wall of tinted windows...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Abusive Behavior, Defendants, Derrion Albert, Murder
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