Attention: anyone who thinks your vote doesn't count. Meet U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota.
In a 5-0 decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided, basically, that there is no law against a close election. It ruled that lower courts had not erred in fi
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin was suitably unsympathetic when sentencing Bernie Madoff this week, despite the swindler's avowed contrition for his record-setting $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Scores of burned investors applauded when Judge Chin sentenced Mr
In every age since primitive humans began to notice that some of us are naturally faster, smarter, prettier and more talented than others, there have been individuals who rise from relative obscurity to tower above their peers.
For centuries, such indiv
HARRISBURG - The battle over the state budget is being waged on two fronts.
One front involves how the budget will impact state programs and state taxpayers.
The other front is what kind of ripple effect the budget will have on local governments and l
So everybody wants to know where City Councilman Bill Courtright is going.
Nowhere, he says; he's staying put. Mr. Courtright said he has no plans to resign as a councilman.
A resignation would hatch one of those wonderfully Machiavellian twists local po
In Massachusetts, a four-year-old girl named Rebecca became the center of a murder investigation after being found dead from an overdose of a dangerous combination of drugs. Both of her parents and a psychiatrist are facing criminal prosecution and will
As Congress debates health care reform, we agree the time is right to fix the problems of America's health care system by extending coverage to everyone, controlling costs and improving quality. National health care reform should build on what works wit
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the nation with its groundbreaking report, "To Err Is Human," which revealed that preventable medical errors were killing up to 98,000 Americans a year. In sounding the alarm, the IOM called for immediate
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case - that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well -will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor's nomi
WASHINGTON - Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is depressing that they won narrowly - 5-4. The behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of
WASHINGTON - "In the beginning," says a character in a Peter De Vries novel, "the earth was without form and void. Why didn't they leave well enough alone?"
When Washington is finished improving health care, Americans may be asking the same thing. Cer
The following were sentenced Thursday by Wayne County President Judge Raymond L. Hamill:
- Trever Hartley-Miele, 22, Moscow, 10 days to 12 months in county jail after pleading guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia.
- Aaron Eisenhauer, 20, Lake Ariel
A federal judge refused to block the destruction of juvenile records for hundreds of people jailed in the Luzerne County kids-for-cash scandal, saying a federal judge cannot intervene in a state court proceeding.
Attorneys on both sides of the juvenile
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Should Neverland Ranch be turned in a landmark honoring Michael Jackson?
