Word: oklahomas
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...Trust. The turtle traders have not focused on harvesting in Africa or Latin America, largely because transportation logistics and costs are not competitive there, van Dijk says. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is a major regional shipping point for turtles collected in the wild and harvested on turtle farms in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The turtles are packed in containers and shipped by air to Asia. Customs officials at both ends monitor the shipments, but accurate numbers and reliable records of which species are being exported are not complete, conservationists...
...tsunami wave coming to Texas," said Shannon Edmonds, state lobbyist for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. Last year, South Carolina adopted the death penalty for the second offense of raping a child under age 11. Oklahoma followed, passing Jessica's Law with a death penalty provision for raping a child under age 14. Texas already had some of the toughest child predator laws on the books with its two-strikes rule that sends child predators to jail for life. But the push for even harsher punishment was coming from the state leadership, rather than from the grass roots...
...abortion, regardless of whether there was any medical necessity for the sonogram. Even the state's Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster has warned that it would be "illegal and improper for the state to force a person seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image against her will." In Oklahoma, Governor Brad Henry this week vetoed legislation that would ban state facilities and employees from performing abortions, except in cases where the woman's life is at risk...
...Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a diehard conservative, who went the furthest, calling late in the afternoon for Gonzales' resignation. "The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Coburn said, a statement Gonzales vehemently took issue with. "At the end of the day I did not do anything improper," he claimed...
...cried softly all day. Soon after the verdict Cave begin researching the issue of juror counseling, and what she found was not much comfort. Jury counseling, or debriefing as it is sometimes called, has been used in several high-profile cases including the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to the National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va. But there is no institutionalized system at either the state or federal court level and only one formal, funded debriefing program in the country - Seattle, Washington's King County court system, which has an ongoing contract...