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Audio recording law under scrutiny
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tiawanda Moore didn’t think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two Chicago police officers she says were try...
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Associated Press Malcolm Burnley stands with a copy of the 1961 edition of the Brown University Herald in the John Hay Library on campus in Providence, R.I. Burnley discovered a long-lost tape recording of a 1961 address by Malcolm X while combing through archived editions of the Herald conducting research for a class.
Student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diploma...
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Missouri muffs chance for presidential primary
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri is spending an estimated $7 million for what amounts to one of the largest public opinion polls of the Republican presidential race. Too bad few people seem to care. ...
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Tea party candidates focus on state legislature
FRANKFORT — Nearly a dozen tea party candidates, including one of Kentucky’s most recognizable fiscal conservatives, have set their sights on state legislative seats up for election this year. L...
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Schools fear Quinn idea to shift pension costs
By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Making local school districts pick up the employers’ portion of teacher retirement benefits could save more than $1.3 billion a year for ...
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Senior keeps peace at UT sporting events
By MELISSA PRIODE Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — No ticket at a University of Tennessee football game means no getting past 96-year-old Jean Akers Ellis. For the past 10 year, Ellis, ...
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Bible Belt towns consider going ‘wet’
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press BARBOURVILLE, — In this Appalachian college town where socially conservative views are bedrocks of life, some people want to do what was once unthinkable: ...
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Official working to stop move
OWENSBORO — An official in western Kentucky is asking the city of Owensboro to put up $3 million to start a project that would move and expand a bluegrass museum before it moves to Tennessee. Ow...
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Lawmaker introduces social media bill in Illinois Senate
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois state representative from Chicago has introduced legislation in Springfield that would ban businesses from requiring job applicants to divulge their social media pas...
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University heads discuss cuts
FRANKFORT — The presidents of the state’s leading research universities met with lawmakers on a House education panel Wednesday about millions of dollars in proposed cuts to post-secondary educatio...
Feb 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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