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A second re-trial is scheduled to be set in January for Kenneth Slert, who is accused of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a man in 2000 at a campground in Packwood. A hearing started Wednesday and should end next week to look at some of the...
Tags: Centralia, Year of birth missing, Obscenity law, Censorship, Obscenity, Law Crime
R1,4-billion lifeline it has requested from the treasury. "The government is supporting us and we will get the guarantee," interim board chairperson Irene Charnley told the Mail & Guardian this week. "We will make an announcement as soon as we get it...
Tags: SABC, Irene Charnley, charnley told, South Africa, Cape Town, Labor, Business Finance, Censorship, South African Broadcasting Corporation
Sami Harb, 44, and Michael Harb, 35, who operated the now-defunct Cleveland-based Movies by Mail, had each pleaded guilty to one count of selling obscene material...Attorney Brett Tolman has called the films violent and extreme and lacking artistic value.
Tags: Font Resize Ohio, Utah, Seattle, Max Hardcore, Extreme Associates, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Obscenity law, Censorship, Obscenity, Law Crime
Police say a suburban Philadelphia woman lying in bed was struck by a bullet that came through a wall...Investigators recovered a dozen shell casings from a gun battle outside. Police say the 49-year-old mother of three was talking on the phone with her...
Tags: Kathy Ann Stewart, Chester, Chester Pennsylvania, Censorship, Obscenity, Obscenity law
KEY cross-bench senator Steve Fielding has blasted new rules that ban MPs from criticising other parties in taxpayer-funded correspondence. In a worrying sign for the Government, the balance-of-power senator has joined the Coalition in fury over the rules,...
Tags: public servant, Australia, Melbourne, Censorship, Steve Fielding, Government, Bureaucrat, Members of the Australian Senate, Politics
Last week, what many are describing as ‘the greatest videogame ever made’ was released. It sold five million copies in the US and the UK on the first day of sale, raking in a record £186million in 24 hours...Only today, videogames have replaced video...
Tags: video nasties, effects theories, United Kingdom, London, Video nasty, Media influence, War, Violent media, Game studies, Censorship, Aggression, Violence
The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional...Nickles said Police Chief Cathy Lanier has canceled the special order authorizing the Neighborhood...
Tags: Charlotte, Obscenity, Appeal, Supreme Court of the United States, United States courts of appeals, Supreme court, Court systems, Obscenity law, Censorship
Federal politicians will be required to publicly disclose whether they have used their printing allowance to pay for Christmas cards. New rules governing the spending were introduced after an audit report found some MPs were using the money for election...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, 39th Canadian Parliament, Obscenity, Ronaldson, Surnames, Censorship, Politics
Up to 2,700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute over jobs, a human rights group said Wednesday. South African police fired rubber bullets Tuesday...
Tags: De Doorns, Desmond van der Westhuizen, informal settlement, foreigners nationals, Cape Town, South African, South Africa, PASSOP, Refugee, Zimbabwe, African Union member states, African countries, Braam Hanekom, Social Issues, War Conflict, Censorship, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Lesotho, Shebeen, Blue Bulls, Enclaves, News24, IRIN, Projectiles, Rubber bullet, Squatting, Xenophobia in South Africa
The small gas canisters, which went off at the entrance of the shops Friday and Tuesday, are similar to the devices used by anti-authority movements that usually target government and financial facilities, police said. Police believe the shadowy groups...
Tags: sex shops, Greece, Thessaloníki, Retailing, Sex shop, Thessaloniki, Censorship, Erotica, Human sexuality, War Conflict, Riot, Incendiary device, Chemical warfare