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Prop. 8 backers blast Calif. Attorney General PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, January 05 2009 02:16 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday of advancing a far-fetched legal theory to justify overturning it.

In papers submitted to the state Supreme Court, lawyers for the Protect Marriage coalition argued that Brown had "invented an entirely new theory" by asking the justices to trump the electorate, which approved Proposition 8 to amend the state Constitutio . . .

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Judge reinstates Islamic group's wiretapping suit PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, January 05 2009 01:28 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday reinstated an Islamic charity's lawsuit challenging a Bush administration surveillance program.

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said there is enough primary evidence showing the charity might have been the target of government-tapped telephone calls that were done without court approval under the administration's so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program.

The U.S. lists the . . .

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Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, January 05 2009 01:21 PM

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The nation's largest owner of timberland disclosed Monday that it will no longer pursue changes in agreements governing its use of U.S. Forest Service roads — changes that critics complained could transform forests into housing subdivisions.

Critics of the proposed changes had included President-elect Barack Obama and Montana's junior senator.

Changes in the agreements would benefit the public, but . . .

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Obituaries in the news PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, January 05 2009 01:10 PM

Griffin B. Bell

ATLANTA (AP) — Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd Southern lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and later became U.S. attorney general after Carter was elected president, died Monday. He was 90.

Bell died around 10 a.m. of kidney failure, said Diana Lewis, a spokeswoman for Piedmont Hospital. He was being treated at the Atlanta hospital for complications from pancreatic cancer and kidney disease, she said.

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Phone exec says Pa. senator listed 50M in demands PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, January 05 2009 01:03 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The former president of Verizon Pennsylvania testified Monday that a powerful state lawmaker gave him a list of demands worth $50 million during negotiations over phone-industry deregulation.

The alleged demands by Sen. Vincent Fumo included $15 million for a small Philadelphia charity linked to him; $10 million for neighborhood redevelopment in his district; and $10 million in deposits at Pennsylvania Savings Bank, the De . . .

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