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Problem Solver: Ticketgate ends in settlement
Mark Geinosky may never know why he received 24 unwarranted parking tickets, but the former Orland Park resident finally has some closure in the case. Geinosky said Wednesday that he has reached a settlement to end his federal lawsuit against the city...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Investigations, Judges, Justice System
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Watchdog Update: Medicaid payments to psychiatrist halted
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has suspended Medicaid payments to a controversial Chicago psychiatrist who the federal government says fraudulently prescribed antipsychotic medication to thousands of mentally ill nursing home...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance, Medicare, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care
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Fast track to the American dream
— Amid the skyscrapers and coal power plants in this fast-growing manufacturing city of nearly 13 million people, eager investors filed into a convention center that thumped with dance music from a Florida beach party video. On sale was the dream...
Tags: Finance, Migration, Barbara Lee, Interior Policy, Petroleum Industry
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“Common Law” wins Best Cop Show in Channel Guide’s 2012 Viewers Voice Awards
Channel Guide MagazineOur most lopsided win in the 2012 Channel Guide’s Viewers Voice Awards belongs to rookie cop show Common Law, a fun hour that pays tribute to all those classic ’80s buddy-cop movies. Michael Ealy and Warren Kole make for a dynamic duo, and... -
Bad background checks cost company $2.6 million
Watchdog with Paul MuschickAn inaccurate criminal background check can cost you a job. A company accused of doing inaccurate background checks has learned that sloppy work can cost it, too: $2.6 million. I've written several times about the lack of accountability by some...... -
Mystery surrounds arrested Iranian blogger's reported death
World NowHuman rights activists are calling on Iran to investigate the apparent death of a blogger who was in custody after being arrested for criticizing the government in online postings. Sattar Beheshti, 35, reportedly died this week while in detention after... -
Malawi minister reportedly denies move to suspend anti-gay law
World NowMalawi's minister of justice has reportedly denied saying that the country's law banning homosexual acts would be suspended pending a parliamentary vote on whether to decriminalize such acts. The minister, Atty. Gen. Ralph Kasambara, said this week that... -
More than $644K of taxpayer money spent to defend anti-abortion laws
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas attorney general's office paid outside lawyers more than $644,000 to defend anti-abortion laws enacted last year. Derek Schmidt says it paid more than $328,000 as of Friday to Foulston Siefken, a Wichita firm...
Tags: Family Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Abortion, Social Issues, Criminal Laws
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New Jersey Muslims file federal lawsuit to stop spying by New York City Police Department
WASHINGTON (AP)— Eight Muslims filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in New Jersey to force the New York Police Department to end its surveillance and other intelligence-gathering practices targeting Muslims in the years after the 2001 terrorist...
Tags: Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Raymond W. Kelly
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A roadblock to rights for the disabled
On July 26, 1990, when President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on the lawn of the White House, I was too young be in attendance, or even understand the impact that this monumental law would have on the United States by...
Tags: John Kerry, Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice
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DEB SMITH COLUMN: Title IX played important role in my life
Much like middle-aged women in general, Title IX celebrates its 40th birthday today with perhaps a few more wrinkles and more lines, but a time-tested outlook and a firm place in history. Title IX, a federal civil rights law, states: No person in the U....Tags: Schools, Basketball, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Sexual Assault
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Internal investigation clears Evanston police officer of racial profiling
Tribune reporterAn internal investigation has cleared an Evanston police officer of racial profiling and other alleged misconduct related to his briefly handcuffing a 13-year-old black juvenile during a burglary investigation in August. But a related federal lawsuit...Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Racism, Justice System
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