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GOP recruiters tilting toward center in 2010 races
WASHINGTON AP - Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh argue the Republican Party needs less moderation and more conservative backbone to win back voters who have been abandoning it in droves.Leaders of the party's 2010 election efforts don't think ideological purity is the answer.In the latest example, key Republican senators jumped this week behind the Senate candidacy of centrist GOP Gov.Report Slams Traffic Court for Financial Abuse, Waste
Steven H. [email protected] yearlong investigation of the City Court of Atlanta alleges that the court consistently violated the city's accounting rules and mismanaged or misappropriated funds under its control. The investigation, begun in November 2003 by Atlanta's law department at the request of Mayor Shirley C.In The Trenches: Kilpatrick beefs up Charlotte office
KILPATRICK STOCKTON is pouring reinforcements into the heated Charlotte legal market, where local competitor King Spalding just opened an office last week.The firm has added seven lawyers to its 11-lawyer Charlotte, N.C., office and will bring on three first-years in September, said its co-managing partner, William E.As President Bush presses lawmakers, many immigrants try to revive stalled reform bill
SAN FRANCISCO AP - As President Bush pressed lawmakers Tuesday to get immigration reform back on track, immigrants across the country were marching, praying, writing lawmakers and hitting the road for Washington in a desperate push to revive the stalled measure.Before the bill collapsed in the Senate last week, most immigrants agreed it was flawed.Probe: Fed employees may have bought fake degrees
WASHINGTON AP - Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.The Spokesman-Review newspaper obtained the list and published the names on its Web site Monday. The Justice Department has refused to release the list, which grew out of a lengthy investigation by the U.Fulton Marks First Takeover of Crack House From Owner
Trisha [email protected] Georgia Court of Appeals, in dismissing an appeal, has upheld the seizure of a southwest Atlanta crack house.This is the first seizure by Atlanta police and Fulton prosecutors under the Fulton district attorney's Neighborhood Fresh Start program, which targets properties where drug activity occurs.Justices say Phelps protests are protected by the First Amendment
Feds consider closing some courtrooms
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - The federal government is considering closing dozens of courtrooms across the country, many located in small, rural communities, as part of an effort to cut costs.Documents obtained by The Associated Press show 60 federal court facilities in 29 states could be on the chopping block. Most of the courtrooms are in buildings that house other federal agencies including in post offices and many are located in remote areas.Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster
PITTSBURGH AP - Artist Shepard Fairey, who recently admitted concealing a key mistake in a lawsuit over his use of an Associated Press photo in his famous Barack Obama "HOPE" poster, said Saturday that the error should not be viewed as "premeditated and sinister."Fairey was at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on Saturday night for the opening of an exhibit of his works - including the 4-foot-by-8-foot Obama poster.Trending Stories
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