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Wild Card -- Weekend
They were following the stringent new fire code enacted after a deadly 2003 nightclub blaze. Question: I know of a local box store that sold trees this year that lost many of there needles after a week. For those of you with real trees, how are they doing? Are they going to make it until Monday? .
US and Europe get chummy over high-tech passport
Another possible biometric feature that may be making its way towards an airport near you may be iris recognition, the German minister added, although it's thought that most EU countries are less than enthusiastic about the plan due to the expense it would entail. The US is already planning to introduce new technology into its border checks, including updated scanning and fingerprint checks with invisible ink from next year. As for a timescale on the project, both Ridge and Schily remained tight lipped and didn't give details, apart from saying that they wanted to see the project get underway quickly. From October 2004, individuals visiting the US from a list of designated countries will need to have biometric passport to enter the country or else have previously applied for a visa a requirement most have escaped so far.
Kaufman man defends his shooting of teen
Later June Nalls, while attempting to transport the injured teen to a hospital, was killed when a 1996 Ford traveling eastbound on State Highway 243 in the opposite direction drifted into her lane, striking another car before colliding with the small pickup in which Nalls, her son and the wounded teen were traveling just outside the Kaufman city limits.A longtime neighbor of the Nalls family, Frosch expressed his regrets about their loss."The family of Mark and June Nalls was good friends of mine," Frosch said. "I hurt and mourn her death." .
Wanted in Michigan: Entrepreneurs
Schox spent six years as an attorney with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Ann Arbor before starting his own practice. He accumulated several Michigan clients, including companies like Accuri Cytometers and NeuroNexus Technologies, before moving to San Francisco a few years ago and continuing his practice. Every six weeks or so, Schox travels back to Ann Arbor for about five days to meet with clients and occasionally teach at U-M. He has a firsthand look at the differences between the entrepreneurial environment in California and the environment in Michigan. One of the key differences, he said, is that Californians applaud entrepreneurial spirit and generally accept failure. Schox has never had a Michigan client go out of business. Several of his Californian clients have.
Killer or hero? Let's wait for facts before we pass judgment
If you believe marijuana should be legal, call your state legislator and demand that it be decriminalized. Don't blame the cops for enforcing Virginia's laws. I don't know if Ryan Frederick is guilty of murder or of anything else. Neither do you. None of us has all the facts. So here's a thought: What do you say we all hold our fire until the defendant goes on trial? Kerry Dougherty, (757) 446-2306, kerry.dougherty@cox.net .
Obama wins Louisiana Democratic primary
Hillary Clinton in the Louisiana primary after caucus victories in Nebraska and Washington state earlier in the day. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, was locked in a tight battle with Arizona Sen. John McCain in Louisiana's Republican primary. Neither candidate was expected to reach the 50 percent vote share needed to claim the delegates -- 20 of the state GOP's 47 -- at stake Saturday night. Although McCain has a large delegate lead nationally, Huckabee carried Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee in primaries Tuesday to give him a strong claim to the Deep South. Louisiana election officials said turnout for Saturday's primary was about 15 percent of eligible voters. State Democratic Party leaders said it was too early to say exactly how many of the delegates would go to Obama and how many to Clinton.
Senior center in Keizer seeks applicants for scholarship
Those with senior center ties looking for help with college tuition have their chance. Keizer/Salem Area Seniors Inc. are seeking applications for the groups second annual, $2,000 college scholarship. The recipient must be a child or grandchild of a current KSAS member. Applications are available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m Monday to Friday at the front desk of the senior center, 930 Plymouth Drive NE, Keizer. Applications also will be sent upon request. Completed applications are due May 1. The winner will be awarded the scholarship June 1. For more information, call (503) 390-7441. Jillian Daley .
Controversial incinerators plan to help Scotland hit green targets
However recycling after the event in many cases is plain daft (however much it makes peole "feel good") - the economic and environmental costs of seperation and disposal far outweigh the economic and environmental costs of landfill. If we didn't have good sites for landfill that would be another matter - but in Scotland we have them in abundance. So we'll build incinerators to avoid handing over our money to Europe in "fines" and fill up the open cast mines with top soil? Madness, which all comes from the slavish adherence to pro Brussels policies. .
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Moyer to lawyers: Fight foreclosure for free
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, a Sandusky native, knows home foreclosures are a big problem back home in Erie County and across Ohio. Moyer is asking the courts and Ohio attorneys to reach out and help as many homeowners as they can. The chief justice has asked judges who handle foreclosure cases to use mediation to resolve as many cases as possible. And he's asked Ohio lawyers to volunteer in foreclosure cases to help families who can't otherwise afford a lawyer. A record number of foreclosure cases in 2007 have helped contribute to the growing workload in the Erie County courts, said the clerk of courts, Barbara Johnson. .
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