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...Senator Ted Stevens, who is now under indictment in a Republican corruption scandal. And she's already embroiled in a mini-scandal that's under investigation by the state senate; Palin's former public safety director has claimed he was fired because he refused to fire a state trooper who was involved in a custody dispute with her sister...
...Spitzer got into trouble again just after taking office as governor. After reporters inquired as to whether Spitzer had used a state plane to fly to California for a fund-raising trip - he had not - Dopp asked state troopers to look into the state-funded travel habits of Spitzer's chief antagonist, Republican state senate leader Joseph Bruno. When the trooper request was made public, the state G.O.P. objected bitterly. Teams of investigators are still looking into whether the governor and his people illegally used their authority to try to intimidate Bruno...
...deputized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with “special state police powers.” HUPD officers can and do carry firearms, make arrests, execute warrants, and otherwise avail themselves of any standard police power at the disposal of a Boston police officer or Massachusetts state trooper. From the standpoint of a private citizen, there is simply no practical difference between a HUPD officer and a Cambridge officer.It is well understood that police departments are required, upon request, to surrender records related to the exercise of their police powers, such as arrest and incident reports. Public scrutiny...
...over the Bears (2-11, 0-3 Ivy). Trimble dominated the net with 19 kills and recorded a .372 hitting percentage despite playing through the pain of a partially torn knee tendon.“She’s a trooper,” Weiss said. “She’s kind of learned to live with it.”Meanwhile, Mahon recorded 18 kills and 19 digs, as the squad picked up its first league victory.“It was huge,” Mahon said. “We all came out very fired...
...Boxer didn't ask either: Without a strong, credible central government, for whom exactly is the re-retrained Iraqi army fighting? How can any Iraqi be loyal to a government that doesn't exist? And, finally, now that the Sunnis have decisively rejected the extremists, why should any American trooper sacrifice even a pinkie in this sectarian catastrophe...