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FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...
Tags: Google Inc., Justice System, North Korea, FBI, Judges
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Chicago's black legal community meets to stem youth violence
Herschella Conyers is an attorney who, along with several judges, recently invited a bunch of people to the University of Chicago to talk about violence and the growing number of teens getting entangled in the criminal justice system. Typically, these...
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Justice System, Lawyers, Mental Health, Juvenile Delinquency
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: Bill Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court, Social Issues, American Civil Liberties Union
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Nursing home safety: Illinois task force proposes sweeping reforms to end violence at troubled sites
Tribune reportersA panel appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn proposed on Thursday an array of sweeping reforms designed to end the chronic violence and abuse that plague some nursing homes, while fostering better treatment for people with serious mental illness living in those...Tags: Mental Illness, Executive Branch, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Nursing Homes
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Chicago nursing homes: Slaying of nursing-home resident in nearby motel shows how violence can spill into neighborhoods
Tribune reportersShe was a beautiful woman with broad cheekbones and an easy smile. But drug addiction dragged Maratta Walker into a life of prostitution and violence. By last year the 45-year-old had been arrested more than 35 times for crimes ranging from crack cocaine...Tags: Missing Persons, Nursing Homes, Mental Health, Health Insurance, Bank Robbery
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New hope for Illinois’ mentally ill nursing-home residents
Thousands of psychiatric patients are likely to move out of nursing homes and into community-based settings in the next five years under a landmark legal agreement designed to reshape Illinois' troubled long-term care system. The agreement, expected to...Tags: Justice System, Sex Crimes, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Nursing Homes
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Illinois Catholic couple taking on Obama over contraception mandate
An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....
Tags: Focus on the Family, Social Issues, Birth Control, Laws, Religion and Belief
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Haiti Earthquake (2010), Salt, FarmVille, Haiti, Human Interest
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Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman named to campaign watchdog panel
PolitiCalState Controller John Chiang appointed Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman to serve on the panel that enforces campaign finance and conflict-of-interest laws, bypassing a more controversial figure also vying for the seat.... -
Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Labor Legislation, Kenneth Liang, Economy, Business and Finance, Kevin J. Carey
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Judge rejects both competing plans in Tribune Co. bankruptcy case
Tribune reporterThe judge in Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy case on Monday rejected two competing plans for reorganizing the company, leaving the Chapter 11 proceeding unresolved after nearly three contentious years in court. In an expansive 126-page opinion, U.S....Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Television Stations, Economy, Business and Finance, Kevin J. Carey, Financially Distressed Companies
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Robert B. Murdock, 80
Robert Brevoort Murdock, 80, of 18717 Dover Drive in Hagerstown, Md., died Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., due to complications following valve replacement surgery. Born Aug. 4, 1932, in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was...
Tags: Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Washington Hospital Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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