By John Christoffersen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHELTON, Conn. — A Connecticut woman managed to hide from her boyfriend and family members that she was carrying triplets, then bled to death while delivering the full-term but stillborn babies in her home, officials said Wednesday. Shelton police detectiv ...

Well over a year ago, after the current economic crisis became "official" with its acknowledgment in media and government circles, I suggested that the crisis presented a great temptation (and opportunity) for states to attempt to (1) reclaim their former position as the supreme point of governance ...

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty From Aviation Week: EU, US Agree On Joint Aviation Security Jan 22, 2010 By Frances Fiorino fiorino@aviationweek.com WASHINGTON The European Union and the U.S. have agreed to pursue ways to strengthen international aviation security and plan a meeting in April to ...

I have written here before about the terrible case of a tractor-trailer that crashed into a school bus in Ocala, killing a one middle school girl and injuring another. Because the trucker happened to be using a cell phone immediately before the crash, the incident helped raise awareness of distracte ...

The New York Times story today on the glaring obviousness of many people's passwords (seriously, 123456?) caught the eye of at least one member of the LexBlog Network. So we have an interesting post on the importance of keeping your online passwords unguessable, as well as an entry from Max Ken ...

Importantly though, the time is now to be focused upon applications to the Non-OLPAS sets of chambers. To this end, I will be signposting and diarising upon the Pupillage Blog the different chamber deadlines as they fall due. (Note that applications for pupillage with Frances Taylor Building need ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A former Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister was sentenced Wednesday to 22 months in jail and ordered to pay $144,000 in restitution for his role in the province’s constituency allowance spending scandal. Jim Walsh, once a prominent ...

The 21st century has seen its share of efforts to extend the power of the state to regulate economic activity in new and increasingly comprehensive ways. The economic scandals at the start of the 21st century and the economic collapse of 2007-2008 provided national governments, and international or ...

This evening's Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, Louisiana 1976, HoosierDeb, It'sJessMe, jennyjem and mem from somerville with shayera editing. johnnygunn shares with us his snowshoe journey through the Wyoming wilderness in a wonderfully-illustrated essay, 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime. Truly a feast ...

Source: Google News Alert Service, December 18, 2009. NEWS: Obama purchase of Illinois prison for Guantanamo detainees: White House memo ...Chicago Sun-Times (blog)Consistent with longstanding policy regarding criminal prosecutions, the Department of Justice will pursue prosecu ...