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AK: Senate Democrat introduces bill to elevate hate crimes

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard mostly supportive testimony Monday of a measure that would dole out harsher sentences in crimes motivated by hatred, bias or prejudice.

AL: Alabama House votes more money for prisons, Medicaid

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The Alabama House has passed a bill to appropriate more than $52 million to the Alabama Department of Corrections and more that $41 million to Medicaid for use in the current fiscal year.

AL: White Hall, Dothan casinos stay shut

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Two large electronic bingo casinos are planning to stay closed despite a judge's ruling that the state attorney general has legal authority over a gambling task force that he's criticized.

AL: Justice Roberts speaks to UA law students

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and the annual speech has "degenerated to a political pep rally."

AL: In Tuscaloosa, John Roberts calls State of the Union criticism 'very troubling'

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the scene at this year's State of the Union address by President Obama was "very troubling," and he wonders if justices should even attend in the future.

AR: State of Wash. continues to reject Ark. parolees

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Officials in the state of Washington say they'll continue rejecting parolees and probationers from Arkansas despite the policy apparently violating an interstate compact.

AR: Ex-Clinton aide looks to death row to aid her defense

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A former top aide to Bill Clinton, charged with trying to smuggle contraband to a death-row inmate, will ask a state court to allow a videotaped deposition of the man before he is executed.

AR: Feds -- Conway Center puts children at risk

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CONWAY, Ark. -- The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to halt new admissions of school-age children at the Conway Human Development Center, claiming that the facility "exposes residents to death and injury."

AZ: Change to Juvenile Corrections being considered

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Arizona legislators may revise a budget provision to close the state Department of Juvenile Corrections and transfer its custody and treatment responsibilities to Arizona counties.

AZ: Feds' inquiry led to sanctions related closure

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
After all local law enforcement's work-site raids and news conferences, it was police work from federal immigration agents that forced the first Arizona business to close for violating the state's employer-sanctions law.

AZ: Judge OKs a pause in state mental health case

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Arizona gets a two-year break from its court-mandated effort to improve services for the seriously mentally ill.

CA: Governor tells state officials to stop shredding sex offender files

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state corrections officials Tuesday to stop destroying sex offenders' parole files and to make as much of their contents public as possible.

CT: Ex-state prosecutor convicted in theft to pay fine

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
L. Mark Hurley, a former state prosecutor, agreed to pay a $2,000 fine for using his position of power to steal about $85,000 meant for crime victim charities and the state prosecutors' union.

CT: Peru lifts some claims against Yale in Machu Picchu lawsuit

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

CT: Bill would set up pilot program to battle illegal use of handicap parking spaces

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Town residents and local police officers might team up to enforce state and local laws on parking for people with disabilities.

CT: Court to move quickly on Pratt & Whitney's appeal on plant closures

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted Pratt & Whitney an expedited review for its challenge of a lower-court decision barring company plans to close its Cheshire factory.

DE: Suit filed against refuge farming

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
About a tenth of the nearly 16,000 acres at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge consists of woods, grassland or farm fields that are planted with corn and soybeans by local farmers under contract with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

FL: Lawmakers push measure to ban public display of noose

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
The picture, spread virally on the Web, was the last straw for state Sen. Frederica Wilson. It showed a man posing in front of the White House with a noose wrapped around an American flag.

FL: In Florida, gay adoption may no longer be banned

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Martin Gill and his partner are seeking to adopt two brothers, ages 5 and 9. The boys have lived with the two men for five years as foster children. For most of that time, the Miami couple has been in court fighting for something Florida forbids gay couples: the right to adopt children.

FL: Fla. Medicaid fraud bill has political baggage

Crimes and Courts News - 1 hour 1 min ago
Republicans are touting Medicaid fraud-fighting legislation that's packed with political baggage.
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