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Reforming Crack-Cocaine Laws, but Leaving Injustice Intact?
In early 2006, a young man named DeJarion Echols stood in a federal courtroom in Waco, Texas, and pleaded for leniency. After police found about 40 grams of crack cocaine, cash and an assault rifle in his bedroom, the promising athlete and father pleaded guilty to crack distribution and gun charges.
Lawmaker: Britain’s MI5 may have recruited terrorist sympathizers
The British government on Saturday responded to a senior lawmaker’s call for an investigation into whether its intelligence agency, MI5, inadvertently recruited individuals involved with terrorist activity. A Home Office spokesman told CNN the department is not aware of MI5 recruiting extremists of any kind
Farmer saves $200,000 with poo power
Four generations of Saylors have worked the family’s dairy farm for nearly a century, but for the past three years, the cows have been doing something besides providing milk: They’ve been helping power the place. Growing up on the sprawling spread 90 minutes from Pittsburgh, 36-year-old farmer Shawn Saylor developed into a self-described science buff
Malawi halts nursing brain drain
Like most African countries, Malawi has suffered from a severe shortage of nurses and key health workers. In the past, workers in the tiny southeast African nation of just 13 million inhabitants have been lured abroad by the promise of higher wages and better working conditions. But, the country best-known as the homeland of Madonna’s adopted children now has another claim to fame: It has succeeding in halting — at least for now — its crippling brain drain of nurses.
License Plate Scanners: Fighting Crime or Invading Privacy?
If you are behind the wheel of your car, someone may be on to you. More and more cities are equipping patrolmen, toll booths and even access roads with computer sidekicks that can keep track of vehicle movements; but by doing so, they are not only changing the face of 21st century law enforcement but sparking debate over privacy issues
Cambridge sergeant: Obama slighted police community
The police officer who arrested a black Harvard professor says President Obama offended police when he accused Cambridge authorities of acting stupidly. “I was a little surprised and disappointed that the president, who didn’t have all of the facts by his own admission, then weighed in on the events of that night and made a comment that really offended not just officers in the Cambridge Police Department but officers around the country,” Sgt
Bowe Bergdahl, an adventurer and gentleman
Bowe Bergdahl wanted a life of adventure. He was a seeker, a hard worker, a man raised in a small town, an avid outdoorsman who took ballet lessons.
Capture of U.S. soldier ‘breaks our heart,’ friend says
A family friend of a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban said his friends and family want Pfc
Talks planned to end World Cup strikes
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a major trade union representing the 70,000 construction workers currently striking at 2010 World Cup stadium building sites in South Africa, will meet with local organizers on Tuesday in a bid thrash out a resolution. The disgruntled labor force have been demanding a 13 percent pay rise from their employers before they return to work, resulting in a dispute that could threaten the completion of key arenas in time for next year’s event.