Crime & Punishment

Minority Groups - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Palm Beach Community College will offer health insurance to partners of gay and unmarried employees, ending a yearlong debate that divided the school's governing board. Trustees approved 3-2 an 18-month pilot program where employees can sign up for ... Source

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Organized Crime - Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A former manager in the District of Columbia tax office on Tuesday admitted to cutting dozens of fraudulent property tax refund checks in a scheme that drained more than $48 million from the city's treasury over almost two decades ... Source

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Tackling crime and violence in Jamaica is major focus of ... - Caribbean Net News

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): In keeping with his pledge to tackle the scourge of crime and violence in Jamaica, when he assumed office on September 11 last year, Prime Minister Bruce Golding tabled six Bills in the Houseof Representatives, proposing ... Source

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Civil Rights - Chicago Tribune

HOUSTON -- Galveston city officials announced today that they will permit residents to return temporarily to the island to inspect their homes for the first time since Hurricane Ike plowed into the area last week. The "look-and-leave" policy will ... Source

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Mexico safety chief's tough job: policing the police - Los Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police in the northern state of Coahuila had seven drug suspects in hand last week when they met a caravan of gun-toting men apparently intent on freeing the arrestees. The highway standoff quickly turned nasty, and bullets ... Source

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Fannie Mae and the Vast Bipartisan Conspiracy - Slate

Today's Page One obituaries for Walter H. Annenberg in the Los Angeles Times , New York Times , and Washington Post barely scrape the festering keratosis that was his career in crime, journalism, and politics. "Media Tycoon Gave Fortunes to Others ... Source

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Accused Cops Plan to Sue City - 13 WHAM

(Rochester, N.Y.) – The Rochester police officers accused of ignoring an alleged anti-gay hate crime last year plan to sue the city. The four officers were suspended after the June 2007 incident on S. Goodman St. A group of people claimed they were ... Source

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Seattle 911 - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs

An overheated aquarium pump sparked a Kent apartment fire that displaced two people, fire officials said. When firefighters arrived about 1:15 p.m. in the 25100 block of 62nd Avenue South , they extinguished a small fire in the upstairs bedroom, Kent ... Source

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Rockwood crime raises citizens’ hackles - Portland Tribune

staff photo by MARA STINE Gresham city councilors Richard Strathern and Carol Nielsen-Hood, local businessman Travis Stovall and former city councilor Jacquenette McIntire walk as part of an anti-crime rally in Rockwood, an area recently hit by three ... Source

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13WHAM News Exclusive: RPD Report Finds No Hate Crime - 13 WHAM

13WHAM News has obtained an internal police department document into last year’s alleged anti-gay hate crime on South Goodman Street. It says there was no hate crime, and raises questions as to whether department leaders misled the public. The RPD ... Source

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