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Few arrested in San Diego State bust face charges

SAN DIEGO—Nearly four months after federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University's Fraternity Row in one of the nation's largest campus drug busts, fewer than half of those arrested face charges as the school tries to repair its ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, Boston Globe,  20 Aug 2008

Fewer than half arrested in SDSU bust face charges

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University's Fraternity Row in May as students prepared for final exams, marching students into the school's basketball arena in one of the nation's largest-ever drug ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, The Orange County Register,  20 Aug 2008

ACLU sues for release of transgendered immigrant

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A transgendered Mexican woman who was granted asylum in the U.S. should be released immediately from the immigration jail while her case is under appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The ACLU ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, The Orange County Register,  14 Aug 2008
Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  United Nations

'40-Year-Old Virgin' actor pleads not guilty

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An actor who appeared in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attempted murder in the stabbing of his girlfriend. Shelley Malil, 43, was ordered held on $10 million bond after Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, Buffalo News,  13 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Steve Carell

Record Number of U.S. Voters To Use Paper Ballots

SAN DIEGO Come November, more Americans might cast their ballots on paper than in any other election in American history. That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the government's $3 billion plan to upgrade voting technology ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, The New York Sun,  6 Aug 2008

Record number of US voters may cast paper ballots

More Americans might cast their ballots on paper in the November presidential election than in any other election in U.S. history. That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the government's $3-billion plan to upgrade ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, Taiwan News,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain

Record number may cast paper ballots

SAN DIEGO (AP) Come November, more Americans might cast their ballots on paper than in any other election in U.S. history. That wasnt supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the governments $3 billion plan to upgrade voting technology ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, The News Review,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain

Recordings raise questions about inmates' rights

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The last thing defense attorney Jim McMahon expected to hear on a recording of phone calls from the county jail was his own voice discussing trial strategy with a client who had been jailed on a probation violation. The intercepted ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, Buffalo News,  4 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Jim McMahon

Owner of San Diego Union-Tribune to explore sale

The owner of The San Diego Union-Tribune said Thursday that it hired an investment bank to explore a sale of the company. The Copley Press Inc. has steadily shed newspapers during the last two years, leaving the Union-Tribune as its only significant ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Evercore Partners Inc,  Gatehouse Media, Inc.,  U.S. Republican Party

Marines testify sniper thought he shot insurgents

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.—A Marine sniper believed he was shooting at insurgents planting a roadside bomb when he killed two Syrian truckers in Iraq last year, platoon members testified in military court Tuesday. Sgt. John Winnick II, a team leader on his ...

From ALLISON HOFFMAN, Boston Globe,  1 Jul 2008

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