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US Senate sets June 27 hearing on West blast

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barbara Boxer has just announced a June 27 hearing on the blast in West, the Texas town where a fertilizer plant caught fire and exploded, killing 15 people and flattening homes and schools. Boxer, chairman of the Environment and Public Works committee, called it premature to know if new legislation is needed to prevent future tragedies. She is reviewing reports from EPA ...
NJ Gov. Christie is still a Dallas Cowboys fan

SAYREVILLE, N.J. -; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised some schoolchildren when he told them his favorite football team is the Dallas ...
Tea party rally draws Texas congressmen activists

Thousands of tea party activists rallied at the U.S. Capitol today, to rail against the IRS, illegal immigration, NSA surveillance and the Obama ...
Drug addict driving with bomb-making supplies claimed to be preparing for doomsday

During a traffic stop Tuesday, Dallas police discovered bomb-making chemicals and literature in the vehicle of a Waxahachie man who told them he was preparing for doomsday, according to a federal complaint. Clayton Todd Earthman, 24, told officers he also had firearms and large amounts of chemicals at his home on Grande Casa Road in Waxahachie, according to the complaint filed Wednesday by ...
Baby Abducted From Alabama Found in Dallas

An Alabama teenager was charged Wednesday with abducting a 10-month-old boy who was found safe in Texas almost two days after being taken from a home in Birmingham, police ...

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Dr. No [DVD]

Dr. No is primal James Bond. Having not yet fully developed the techno-wizard gadgetry, ironic quips, and increasingly outlandish action that would come to define what has become the cinemas most successful and longest running movie franchise, the original Bond film has an aura of simplicity ... ...

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Drop In Dallas Latino Representation Highlights Voter Turnout Problem

The Latino community saw its representation decline in the city of Dallas this weekend for the second time this year, where a local race left the city council with just two Hispanic members. That wasn't supposed to ...
Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Abortion bill all about shutting down accessibility

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has said that he’s for overturning Roe vs. Wade and that he wants to end abortions in Texas. But at least during the public debates on bills about raising the standard requirements of abortion clinics, the Republicans all spoke of it in terms of women’s safety and health. Sponsors and backers such as Sen. Robert Deuell, a Greenville physician, said the vote ...
Southern Methodist Universitys Dean of Student Life resigns from position

A Southern Methodist University administrator resigned this week to ';pursue other opportunities,'; according to an email sent to university ...
Decherd to retire from Dallas-based AH Belo

DALLAS -; The CEO of Dallas-based A.H. Belo (BEE'-loh) Corporation plans to retire in September and will become vice chairman of the board of ...
Frisco one of 55 cities in the nation with top fire protection rating

Frisco maintained its ISO rating of 1 on fire protection, the highest level available. Part of that ranking looks at the services available. Frisco opened Fire Station No. 7 last year. (Photo by David Woo, The Dallas Morning News) The city of Frisco has maintained its Class 1 rating for fire protection, officials announced at Tuesday’s city council meeting. ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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No justice for Jeff Skilling despite sentence reduction

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will be back in court next week to be resentenced. The hearing will put an end to a 9 year saga of court cases, appeals and re-appeals, one the U.S. Department of Justice will be glad to see the end of.

And rightly so. The resources and money spent by Justice to convict Skilling and keep him behind bars has been extraordinary. The deal however they have struck with Skilling and his lawyers is ludicrous.

Skilling should not have ten years shaved off his 24 year sentence. The remainder of his sentence should be quashed. Instead he has to accept the resentencing deal. He has spent years and plenty of cash, resources and angst in trying to prove he was wrongfully convicted. As his lawyer says there comes a time when he needs some "certainty," and some "finality."

The twenty four years in the first place was a rediculous sentence. In the second place the conviction was not attained in the ordinary course of justice, it was a political statement. Skilling and Lay became the public scapegoats for the systematic fraud at Enron, neither of whom were the perpetrators or the beneficiaries.

What is very disturbing is that during Skilling's trial, prosecutors concealed evidence helpful to the defence. ...