Friday, May 05, 2006

Making money - CHINA: Journalist not given fair deal for trial, wife says


CHINA: Journalist not given fair deal for trial, wife says
Asia Media - Beijing --- A journalist who reported on alleged local government corruption in central China's Hunan province will go on trial next week without having been able to prepare his defence, his wife said yesterday. The trial of Yang Xiaoqing, who was

In low-key race, Susan Castillo looks to keep schools job
Katu.com - PORTLAND, Ore. - When the rumors started swirling that she might, just might, have an eye on fellow Democrat Ted Kulongoski's gubernatorial job, Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo moved swiftly to squelch them, announcing last summer that she

In The Spotlight
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By Annie Linskey
Baltimore Sun - Former WMAR sportscaster Keith Ross Mills was sentenced Friday to nine months of house arrest for stealing prescription painkillers from his next-door neighbor in Linthicum, a woman with cancer. Mills, 48, pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary

Recess for Life
Madison Courier - Students at Southwestern Elementary School participated in Recess for Life this week. The event helped the children learn more about cancer and also to raise money for cancer research. Second-grader Cody Holman, right, writes the name of his