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What's the longest time you've served in jail? Four months was the longest. [Police] tend to look at my record and realize that nothing they do is going to stop me from continuing in this recidivist pattern. Every time I go to court, you always see their eyes kind of light up when they look at my arrest sheet, which goes all the way back...
...Javanese royalty Pakubuwono X, who died in 1938, was the susuhunan, or sultan, of Surakarta (the central Javanese city more commonly known as Solo). He was well read in everything and very forward-looking. His court even combined batik and Art Deco designs...
...Supreme Court begins its new term on Oct. 5--its first with Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench--and legal observers are watching this session closely to see if conservative Justices move more forcefully to override their liberal counterparts. Arguments will be heard on cases involving corporate political donations, antitrust complaints brought against the NFL, and First Amendment issues concerning the sale of videos depicting animal cruelty...
Yale lab technician Ray Clark, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of pharmacology student Annie Le, appeared in court for a second time Tuesday but has not entered a plea...
From the ubiquitous T-shirts sporting a red-eyed tree frog clinging to an Imperial beer bottle, to the best-selling postcards featuring the flamboyant poison-dart frog holding court in the rainforest, Costa Ricans today identify with frogs the way Russians relate to bears. That's because Costa Rica over the past generation has built a reputation as one of the world's greenest countries. It so jealously guards its environment that 26% of its territory is under national park protection, its eco-tourism sector is a $2 billion-a-year cash cow and its forest cover has actually...