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Hundreds of prison employees get layoff notices

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 3:07 PM
California prison officials have sent layoff notices to 548 employees, including 140 guards, as the state's inmate population declines to comply with a federal court order. Corrections officials said Friday there are 14,000 fewer inmates than four months ago, when a new law began sending those convicted of lower-level offenses to county jails instead of state prisons. Read More

No ruling on doc's competency in Vegas hep C case

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 2:11 PM
A Nevada state psychiatrist testified Friday that despite two strokes, the embattled former physician-owner of Las Vegas outpatient clinics involved in a 2008 hepatitis outbreak is mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges. Read More

Denver appeals court upholds military impostor law

By: IVAN MORENO 01/27/12 12:53 PM
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a federal law making it illegal to lie about being a war hero is constitutional and making false statements is not always protected free speech. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the Denver-based court reverses a district judge's decision that the Stolen Valor Act violates the First Amendment. Read More

Former NFL player says ex-UGA coach duped him

By: KATE BRUMBACK 01/27/12 11:50 AM
Former NFL player Kendrell Bell has accused his college football coach at the University of Georgia of duping him out of $2 million. Read More

Calif. Supreme Court upholds new state Senate maps, which are expected to favor Democrats

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 11:06 AM
Calif. Supreme Court upholds new state Senate maps, which are expected to favor Democrats Read More

Judge tosses Calif. standards for revoking parole

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 6:35 AM
California's voter-approved standards for revoking parole violate parolees' rights to legal representation and tips the scale toward sending them back to prison, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton in Sacramento issued Tuesday's ruling on parts of Proposition 9, which was approved in 2008 with 54 percent of the vote. Known as Marsy's Law, the initiative was intended to add crime victims' rights to the state constitution. Read More

Court ruling could expand Democratic majority

By: JUDY LIN 01/27/12 6:10 AM
The California Supreme Court on Friday upheld a new political map drawn by the state's independent redistricting commission in a ruling that gives Democrats their long-awaited opportunity to control two-thirds of a legislative chamber, the threshold needed to pass tax increases. Read More

Nigeria Supreme Court fires 5 governors

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 6:05 AM
Nigeria's Supreme Court says it has fired five governors who overstayed their tenures. Justice Walter Onnoghen said Friday that the governors of Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto states should have left office in May 2011. The ruling-party governors first came into office in May 2007 for four-year tenures, but their elections were annulled. After a re-election, they took a second oath of office in 2008. Read More

Senegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term

By: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI 01/27/12 5:26 AM
Abdoulaye Wade
Senegal's highest court ruled Friday the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition, which has vowed to take to the streets if the aging leader does not step aside. Read More

'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to 6 1/2 years

By: MANUEL VALDES 01/27/12 5:02 AM
Colton Harris-Moore
A federal judge on Friday sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010. Read More
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