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December 22, 2010

Man gets nearly 20 years in Haiti sex abuse case

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) - Douglas Perlitz, 40, apologized to his victims while speaking in Creole before the sentence was…
December 8, 2010

Man gets 33 months for threatening Obama in poem

The 28-year-old claims that he wrote the poem because he was upset over his mother's death and he had just…
August 26, 2010

Report: 90,000 inmates sexually victimized

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tens of thousands of rapes are occurring in America's prisons each year and the new study "finds…
July 28, 2010

Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences

WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum for first-time possession of crack...
June 21, 2010

Obama: Let’s help dads connect with their kids

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is calling for new initiatives to help absent fathers re-engage with their children...
June 7, 2010

Arizona isn’t the only state with a racist agenda

OPINION - The collective outrage expressed over the civil liberties issues in the Arizona immigration law has been hardly present…