Promising to go after oil companies and telemarketers, House Minority Leader Matt Entenza on Wednesday launched his bid to become state attorney general.
Entenza, who helped lead House Democrats to a 13-seat gain in last year's election, said he hopes to build on a tradition of DFL attorneys general including former vice president Walter Mondale and the office's current holder, Mike Hat...
The speaker lineup for William Mitchell College of Law's Oct. 28 Public Square symposium "Special Tactics for a Secret War" has changed. Retired CIA officer William McNair has been added to the program. John Rizzo, CIA acting general counsel, informed the law school that he has to withdraw from the symposium. Douglas Jehl, correspondent for The New York Times, is also unable to attend.
M...
Update to William Mitchell Symposium on 'War on Terror' Interrogation Tactics: Changes Made to Speaker Lineup
ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The speaker lineup for William Mitchell College of Law's October 28 Public Square symposium "Special Tactics for a Secret War" has changed. Retired CIA officer William McNair has been added to the program. John Rizzo, CIA acting general ...
Detained Al-Jazeera cameraman allegedly asked to inform on station
New York, October 26, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about alleged attempts by the U.S. military to recruit a detained journalist as a spy. London's Guardian newspaper reported that U.S. military interrogators allegedly told a journalist for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera that he would be released if he...
Dr. Christy Daniels, a teacher at the Center for Alternative Education, has been selected by newspaper USA Today to the All USA Teacher Team.
Daniels received her trophy and a check for $500 from USA Today at the Picayune school board meeting last night. She previously was selected as the Picayune Municipal Separate School District's Teacher of the Year and State of Mississippi ...
Newberry College plans to stick with its Indians nickname even though the NCAA turned down the schools' request to be removed from a list of colleges whose American Indian mascots, logos and nicknames will be banned in postseason play starting next year.
A statement from Newberry President Mick Zais on Wednesday said the school "has no intention of changing its nickname. ... We are disap...
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) met this morning to begin its consideration of "assistance in mine action", an item that was allocated to it for the first time during its last session, and which will be addressed biennially. In the absence of consensus on a draft resolution last year, the General Assembly decided that the Committee would consider the item during the ...
The 2004 satire "A Day Without a Mexican" depicts how business in California almost comes to a halt when every Mexican mysteriously disappears.
On a much smaller scale over the past week, something similar has occurred in the Triangle.
Reacting to rumors that immigration officials were raiding construction sites, hospitals, flea markets and Wal-Marts, scores of illegal immigrants ha...
Kissel Brothers' Riches Masked Looming Fraud, Murder (Update1)
Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- William Kissel says that when each of his two sons turned 16, he gave them a credit card and told them to go out and buy whatever they wanted.
``Andrew came back with a fur jacket,'' Kissel, 77, says of his eldest son, who now faces a 10-count indictment for grand larceny, forgery and ...
RALEIGH, NC, OCTOBER 25, 2005 –Nine attorneys from Maupin Taylor, P.A. have been selected for the 2006 edition of the Best Lawyers In America, scheduled for publication this November.
This year's list of attorneys consists of Reuben G. Clark III, Amos C. Dawson III, David R. Dorton, M. Keith Kapp, Michael C. Lord, John I. Mabe Jr., Robert A. Valois, Frank P. Ward Jr. and Daniel Lee Brawl...