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Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
DETROIT (AP) — A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday. Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Judges, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Nancy Sarowski: Show me
Editor's Note: Nancy Sarowski, will be writing every Tuesday on conservative issues. We strive to maintain a equal political balance on our opinion page and will continue to publish Kendall Stanley's column on Mondays. Stanley writes from a progressive...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Pension and Welfare, U.S. Congress, Same-Sex Marriage
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Angry city manager can laugh all the way to the bank
Like sports coaches, city managers are hired to get fired. And they usually leave laughing all the way to the bank, like ex-Miramar manager Robert Payton, who quit earlier this year and left with a total benefits package worth $2.4 million. Broward's...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Politics, Miramar, Pembroke Park, Coconut Creek
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Shield Pa. taxpayers from a 'pension tsunami'
Pennsylvania's pension crisis is about to hit state homeowners and taxpayers, and the results won't be pretty. The state's two pension systems — for state government workers and public school employees — are, together, more than $47...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Employees, Bucks County, Natural Disasters, Career and Workplace
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Senators press forward on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, Career and Workplace, Harry Reid, Memorial Day
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Broward women brought 143 Haitian workers to US for fake jobs, feds say
The 143 workers paid as much as $3,500 each, lured to South Florida from Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said. But when they arrived,...Tags: Haiti, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Justice System
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Engineering, DREAM Act, University of California, Berkeley, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Startups
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Sandy Hook parents help Illinois high-capacity magazine ban
— Grieving parents of children killed at a Connecticut elementary school gave haunting testimony about their lost sons Monday as they tried to persuade the Illinois Senate to approve a ban on the sale of high-capacity gun magazines in Illinois....
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice, Periodicals, Parties and Movements, Gun Control
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IRS probe ignored most influential groups
IRS probe ignored most influential groups KEN THOMAS,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to...
Tags: John McCain, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Sheldon Whitehouse, Parties and Movements
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Tamarac woman indicted on fraudulent guest worker scheme
A Tamarac woman has been indicted for her alleged involvement in a fraudulent guest workers scheme by the U.S. Department of Justice. A federal judge unsealed a three-count indictment Friday returned by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Judges, Tamarac, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott should be fired up to sign this reasonable gun bill
It's not often a Florida governor gets caught in the crossfire between gun enthusiasts and the National Rifle Association. Unfortunately, that's where Gov. Rick Scott finds himself, thanks to a reasonable gun-control bill awaiting his signature. HB 1355...
Tags: Mental Illness, Florida Legislature, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Executive Branch
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Editorials: Tighten Link card rules to fight abuse
For state Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, this was the last straw: A food stamp recipient in his district used her Link card to bail herself out of jail. "We are losing a couple billion dollars in fraud and we know that," Bost says of Illinois' Link...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Whole Wheat Bread, Politics, Pat Quinn
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