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State's Attorney's office regrets characterization of defendants as 'mutts'
Change of SubjectOn his Lisagor Award-winning Huffington Post blog, David Protess wrote yesterday about what he saw yesterday in a Cook County Courtroom. First, his summary of the case: Armando Serrano and Jose Montanez were convicted of a 1993 murder based primarily........ -
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: Barack Obama, News Media, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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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: Juvenile Delinquency, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Health, Housing and Urban Planning
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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: Justice and Rights, General Practitioners, Bill Clinton, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities
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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: Chemical Industry, Government, Long Term Care, Mental Illness, Pharmaceuticals
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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: Methadone (drug), Prostitution, Cocaine, Health Insurance, Punishment
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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: Long Term Care, Substance Abuse, Medical Specialization, Nursing, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: U.S. Congress, Litigation, Retraining, Family Planning, Lawyers
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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: Psychology, Teaching and Learning, Ethics, Values, Sales
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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: Lazard Limited, Prices, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp.
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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: Crimes, Litigation, Employees, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company
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