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Court rejects appeal of mother of slain murder witness

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Hartford police and state prosecutors over the 2007 killing of a murder witness. Two people were charged in her death, but prosecutors later said they lacked evidence and dropped the charges.

Defense expected to begin case in federal voting law trial

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for the state Department of Justice are expected to begin calling witnesses in a federal trial to defend a host of election law changes enacted by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in recent years.

Defense expected to begin case in federal voting law trial

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — Attorneys for the state Department of Justice are expected to begin calling witnesses in a federal trial to defend a host of election law changes enacted by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in recent years. Liberal groups challenging elements of Wisconsin's voter identification law and more than a dozen other voting-related law changes were expected to conclude their case on Tuesday, the seventh day of the trial in federal court in Madison.



Topman Alphabet: Europa loopt achter

Tubantia 

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Europese ondernemingen hebben last van ontelbare regeltjes. Dat zei topman Eric Schmidt van Alphabet, het moederbedrijf van Google, dinsdag in Amsterdam bij een evenement voor startende ondernemingen.

Louisiana firefighter electrocuted while horseback riding

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty Louisiana firefighter has been electrocuted while riding a horse. Bossier City's fire chief says George William Chambers IV came in contact with a low-hanging power line while riding Sunday morning in a field in that northwest Louisiana city. The statement released by Chief Brad Zagone also says the horse was electrocuted. Chambers, a fire truck driver, was a 20-year veteran of the city's fire department.

Fukushima: 600 Tons Of Melted Radioactive Fuel Still Missing

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The clean up team at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has revealed that 600 tonnes of radioactive reactor fuel melted during the disaster, and that the exact location still remains a mystery. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021, Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO’s chief of decommissioning told ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program.  He added that Japan does not yet possess the technology to extract the melted uranium fuel. RT reports: Following the tsunami-caused 2011... Читать дальше...

DNA tests needed to identify Thai school fire victims

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

BANGKOK (AP) — Relatives of a dozen primary-school girls who died in a dormitory fire in northern Thailand are awaiting the results of DNA tests, because all but five of the bodies were too disfigured to be identified by sight. Fifteen girls and a teacher escaped the fire Sunday night by tying bedsheets together and using them to climb down from a second-floor window at the dormitory at the Pithakkaiat Witthaya school outside Chiang Rai city.

PBS to air film of American couple that defied Nazis

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — PBS will air a film in September about an American couple that spent two years rescuing Jews in Europe before and after the start of World War II, made by the couple's grandson with documentarian Ken…





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