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22 Jun

Wind farm foes dealt legal blow

The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in [...]

07 May

Boosting Its Legal Tab

Faced with a judge’s order dismissing their argument for keeping a bonus program hidden from the public, Sandy leaders refused to surrender.
Within two weeks of the ruling, city officials hired a Salt Lake City law firm to continue what already had been a costly four-year legal battle.
During the next three months, newly obtained documents show, [...]

01 Mar

Pumpkin’s dad captured in US

Police chief Marc Johnson from the suburb of Chamblee said police received a phone call from a person at an apartment complex saying they had a murder suspect in custody.
When police arrived around 8am (NZT), they found him in the custody of five males and one female.
They had basically taken his pants and tied his [...]

03 Feb

Crims caught in act by call-tapping

A long-awaited test of legal powers to snoop on calls from jail payphones has uncovered evidence of plans for robberies and drug crimes, even while it was still being trialled.
The Corrections Department says a trial of the system to record all 12 million minutes of calls made each year and monitor some of them at [...]

29 Jan

Kiefer Sutherland released from jail

Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail in California
after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge, People
magazine reported in the US.
A jail spokesman did not immediately return a phone call seeking
confirmation of a story on People magazine’s website
saying the 41-year-old actor walked out of jail just after midnight
today, hours earlier than had been expected.
But [...]

29 Jan

Kiefer Sutherland released from jail

Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail in California
after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge, People
magazine reported in the US.
A jail spokesman did not immediately return a phone call seeking
confirmation of a story on People magazine’s website
saying the 41-year-old actor walked out of jail just after midnight
today, hours earlier than had been expected.
But [...]

29 Jan

Jerome Kerviel is 31. He has just cost his bank $8 billion

Now come the questions. How did he do it? How come
nobody noticed for so long? And where is he now? In London, James
Button reports.
He IS 31 years old, a lowly paid employee, and said to be a
loner. But in perpetrating the greatest banking fraud in history,
could Jerome Kerviel really have acted alone?
It is just one [...]

29 Jan

$8 billion

HE IS 31 years old, a lowly paid employee, and said to be a
loner. But in perpetrating the greatest banking fraud in history,
could Jerome Kerviel really have acted alone?
It is just one of the questions haunting the world’s money
markets as they try to digest the impact of the 4.9 billion euro
defrauding of Societe Generale, France’s [...]

29 Jan

The (Aussie) voice of Israel

MARK Regev likes to joke that he is one of a handful of
Australians who are gradually taking over government in the land of
Israel. He recites a list of names and impressive-sounding titles,
few of which would be recognised by most Australians. But there is
no mistaking Regev, recently appointed the official spokesman for
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who [...]

28 Jan

Kiefer Sutherland released from jail

Kiefer Sutherland has been released from jail in California
after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge, People
magazine reported in the US.
A jail spokesman did not immediately return a phone call seeking
confirmation of a story on People magazine’s website
saying the 41-year-old actor walked out of jail just after midnight
today, hours earlier than had been expected.
But [...]


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