Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Study: Murders among black youths on the rise

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows.

The study, to be released Monday by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Court Weighs How Maternity Leaves Affect Pensions

Several Supreme Court justices questioned on Wednesday whether AT&T Corp. is discriminating against former employees by paying smaller retirement checks to women who took pregnancy leaves in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Lawyer now lives among his clients

It's not unusual for a lawyer to have to meet a criminal client in a prison.

It's another thing to bump into your client because you're living in the same jail.

So it is for D. Scott Perrine, now housed at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in the Northeast. It's the same prison housing Perrine's client Pete Hopkins, 20, one of three men whose beating by Philadelphia police on May 5 was captured on an infamous video by a Fox29 news helicopter.

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