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FBI To Mark 100-Year Anniversary
AFPWASHINGTON -- In the 100 years since it was created on July 26, 1908, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation -- or FBI, as it is better known -- has grown from a few dozen detectives to a force of 30,000-plus. It has been elevated to the stature of...Tags: Maryland, Jodie Foster, Bombings, Justice System, Crimes
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Police chief: file complaint or stop complaining
Plainfield's police chief is challenging critics of his department's investigation of the beating of a black teenager to either file a complaint with federal authorities or drop their rhetoric. Chief Robert Hoffman sent a letter to the Norwich...Tags: Prosecution, Norwich, Police Investigations, Jodi Rell, Justice and Rights
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N.Y. jury convicts ex-Haitian strongman of fraud
A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million. A Brooklyn jury found Emmanuel "Toto" Constant guilty on Friday of fraud and grand larceny. He faces up to 15 years in...Tags: Human Rights, Justice and Rights, New York, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Corporate Crime
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children yesterday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region. Separately,...Tags: New York, Health and Safety at School, Schools, Employees, Human Rights
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Hamdan case is built on his own words
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the custody of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Salim Ahmed Hamdan drew maps to Al Qaeda training camps and compounds for his captors. A driver for Osama bin Laden for nine months before his November 2001 arrest, Hamdan guided FBI and military intelligence...Tags: Police Investigations, International Law, Constitutional Issues, Armed Forces, Lawyers
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Group to help Wisconsin Amish
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A national group dedicated to religious freedom is joining a fight between Amish farmers and some Wisconsin towns. The National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom has filed a brief asking for permission to intervene in a...Tags: Land Price, Wisconsin, Justice and Rights, Freedom of Religion, New York
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ACLU threatens suit if Flint keeps officers quiet
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday threatened to sue the city if it doesn't halt a policy that prevents police officers from speaking with the media. The ACLU's Michigan chapter sent a letter to interim Flint Police Chief David Dicks on...Tags: Michigan, Newspaper and Magazine, Censorship, Justice and Rights, Freedom of the Press
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Civil rights groups want consent searches banned
Associated Press WriterCivil rights groups on Thursday asked Gov. Rod Blagojevich to bar state police from conducting consent searches during traffic stops, citing four years of data that show minorities are searched more often than whites. In 2007, minorities underwent...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Vehicles, Health and Safety at School, Racism, Northwestern University
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Study sees racial bias in traffic-stop searches
Chicago Tribune reportersCivil rights groups called Thursday for ending the state police practice of searching vehicles during routine traffic stops, citing new statistics that show black and Hispanic motorists are searched more often even though drugs or other illegal items turn...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Minority Groups, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Chicago Police Department, House
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Sentencing for civil rights leader postponed
A Loudoun County circuit judge has postponed the sentencing of a prominent civil rights figure convicted of incest. The Rev. James L. Bevel was convicted in April of having sex 15 years ago with his then-teenage daughter. He was to be sentenced Friday...Tags: Mental Illness, Justice and Rights, Illnesses, Loudoun County, Punishment
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