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More than 200 arrested in Occupy LA
Associated Press - Tue Nov 29, 2011
LOS ANGELES - In a massive show of force, 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear stormed the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from the park and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave. More»

Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable
ABC News - Tue Nov 29, 2011
In September, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's most prestigious military award, to Sergeant Dakota Meyer, the marine who saved 36 of his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan. More»

Newt Gingrich: Child Labor Laws Are 'Stupid'
Huffington Post - Sun Nov 20, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called child labor laws "stupid" Friday in an appearance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. More»

Pregnant teen, elderly woman among pepper sprayed
Associated Press - Tue Nov 15, 2011
SEATTLE, Washington - A downtown march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement turned briefly chaotic as police scattered a crowd of rowdy protesters - including a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old activist - with blasts of pepper spray. More»

Charges dropped against veteran
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Nov 11, 2011
All of David Sturdivant's possessions fit in a paper sack he held tightly as he waited Friday in a wheelchair, with a folded walker, outside the Fulton County Jail. More»

New York City cop imprisons college student without ID for two days
The Lookout - Thu Nov 3, 2011
Note to tourists visting New York: Don't be caught out without your ID, or you could be caught in the city's penal system for days, if the recent experience of 21-year-old college student Samantha Zucker is anything to go by. More»

Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured by police
The Guardian, UK - Thu Nov 3, 2011
Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. More»

Judge William Adams: Texas Police Investigate Video of Judge Beating Daughter
Business & Law - Tue Nov 1, 2011
A video of Aransas County Judge William Adams allegedly beating his disabled daughter is being investigated by the Rockport, Texas Police Department. More»

Judges Are for Sale - and Special Interests Are Buying
Time - Sun Oct 30, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement is shining a spotlight on how much influence big-money interests have with the White House and Congress. More»

Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Vet During Occupy March
Huffington Post - Tue Oct 25, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined to reclaim the camp that officers destroyed that morning. More»

Woodruff Park remained closed Wednesday after Occupy Atlanta evicted overnight
WXIA-TV - Tue Oct 25, 2011
ATLANTA, Georgia - Fifty of the 52 members of Occupy Atlanta who were arrested overnight are expected to bond out Thursday afternoon. More»

Atlanta high schools broke rules to meet performance standards
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sun Oct 23, 2011
A learning disability made school hard for Chantel Cox, but she always stayed on grade level and looked forward to earning a high school diploma. More»

Police pepper spray Haka dancers at football game
Associated Press - Sat Oct 22, 2011
ROOSEVELT, Utah - Police in a small Utah town are being accused of overreacting after using pepper spray to break up a group of Polynesian men and boys performing a traditional dance called the Haka after a high school football game. More»

Over $2.5 million in Medical Bills: 'Miracle' tornado survivor denied workers' comp
Associated Press - Sat Oct 22, 2011
JOPLIN, Missouri By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, an underpaid social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. More»

In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
New York Times - Thu Oct 20, 2011
HOUSTON, Texas - Texas prison officials last month ended the decades-old practice of serving last meals to inmates about to be executed after one man ordered an elaborate feast of hamburgers, pizza and chicken-fried steaks that he did not eat. More»

Obama Announces Complete Drawdown of U.S. Troops From Iraq by Year's End
ABC News - Thu Oct 20, 2011
President Obama will announce today that the United States is pulling all its troop from Iraq by the end of the year. More»

Banks closed in Ga, NC, NJ, Ill; 80 failed in 2011
Associated Press - Fri Oct 14, 2011
WASHINGTON - Regulators on Friday closed small banks in Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Illinois, boosting to 80 the number of US bank failures this year. More»

Detective: NYPD Planted Drugs on People to Meet Drug Arrest Quotas
AlterNet - Thu Oct 13, 2011
According to a former officer who testified at trial yesterday, New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas. More»

Showdown looms between Wall St protesters and cops
Associated Press - Wed Oct 12, 2011
NEW YORK - Officials on Thursday moved to put an end to Wall Street protesters' month-long occupation of a park that spawned similar gatherings across the nation, setting up a potential confrontation with police and an uncertain future for a movement that claims to speak for the disillusioned middle class. More»

Alabama brings back slavery for Latinos
The Guardian, UK - Wed Oct 12, 2011
Here's how: pass a draconian immigration law, lock up "illegals" in private prisons, then get the new inmates to work in the fields. More»

Domestic Violence Law Repealed By Lawmakers In Topeka, Kansas
Huffington Post - Tue Oct 11, 2011
TOPEKA, Kansas - Over the past month, one by one, people suspected in domestic battery cases in northeast Kansas have been set free with no charges against them. More»

Right-Wing Editor Brags about "Infiltrating" DC Protest March
AlterNet - Sat Oct 8, 2011
Washington, DC saw not one but two major protest actions this weekend, and one of them, a peaceful march to the Air and Space Museum to protest an exhibit on unmanned drones, saw a confrontation with police that led to protesters getting pepper-sprayed. More»

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list"
Reuters - Wed Oct 5, 2011
WASHINGTON - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. More»

Bank of America to shut down lending division
Associated Press - Wed Oct 5, 2011
NEW YORK - Bank of America is closing down one of its mortgage units. More»

Farmers complain about rotting crops but Sen. Scott Beason says no to immigration law changes
Associated Press - Tue Oct 4, 2011
STEELE, Alabama - A sponsor of Alabama's tough new immigration law told desperate tomato farmers Monday that he won't change the law, even though they told him that their crops are rotting in the field and they are at risk of losing their farms. More»

700 arrested after protest on NY's Brooklyn Bridge
Associated Press - Sat Oct 1, 2011
NEW YORK - Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan's Financial District Sunday even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense confrontation with police. More»

Passenger: Was cuffed, searched over "appearance"
Associated Press - Tue Sep 13, 2011
DETROIT - A US woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated at Detroit's airport on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks - all, she believes, because of her Middle Eastern appearance. More»

Cops to pay bill for woman's body cavity search
MSNBC - Sat Sep 10, 2011
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - A New Mexico woman who refused to pay a $1,122 hospital bill for a court-appointed body cavity search won a victory Wednesday: Police will foot the bill, The Las Cruces Sun-News reported. More»

Council of Europe demands truth on CIA black sites
CNN - Mon Sep 5, 2011
Paris - The human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come clean Monday, as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches. More»

US regulator to sue banks over subprime mortgage losses
BBC - Thu Sep 1, 2011
US authorities are to sue 17 major banks for losses on mortgage-backed investments that cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. More»

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