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Group: South Florida top 'judicial hellhole'; Ill.'s Madison County falls from list
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. AP - Ann Callis knows Madison County's court system has taken mighty public knocks from President Bush to a special-interest group.As the county's chief judge, Callis didn't let such image-tarnishing depictions drive the reforms she's pushed. She's got new proof that her changes are quelling the critics.Rescue plan sows seeds of new kind of capitalism
It is October 2017. The Bureau of Economic Analysis has just reported that the U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1 percent in the third quarter. This is hailed as "very good news" by the president's economic advisers. And it is, relative to the past couple of years. Government spending, which accounted for 17.Too fat to kill Fla. man uses weight as a defense
TRENTON, N.J. AP - A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.When Edward Ates takes the stand in his defense Wednesday, he's expected to tell jurors he wouldn't have had the energy needed to climb and descend the staircase where prosecutors say the killer was perched when he shot Paul Duncsak, a 40-year-old pharmaceutical executive, in 2006.Parolee in Oakland police shootings linked to rape
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After managing a firm, what's next
AS LAW FIRMS continue to grow into increasingly complex billion-dollar businesses, more managing partners are devoting themselves full time to their leadership roles. In fact, as law firms have ballooned from 50-person enterprises to 1,000-plus-lawyer behemoths, managing partners find they are less able to juggle their management jobs with their law practice than firm leaders did a generation ago.Americans bet billions on junk bonds
Americans have a thing for junk.Stock prices have doubled in the past three years, and everyday investors keep pulling money out of stocks. But they're happy to lend billions of dollars to companies with deep debts and embarrassing credit scores.They're doing it through junk bonds, the risky investments made infamous by the disgraced investment banker Michael Milken in the 1980s.Bernanke's emerging-market disciples may heed Volcker
Policy makers in emerging economies from Russia to Vietnam may have to start acting less like Ben S. Bernanke and more like Paul Volcker if they want to bring inflation under control. With currencies tied to the U.S. dollar, officials in many developing countries have had to keep their monetary policies linked to the Federal Reserve's.Condemned man's execution stayed
ATLANTA AP - A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime.Troy Davis, 40, was scheduled to be executed Monday for the murder of Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail.Trending Stories
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