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NAFTA bashing off the Democrats' agenda

AP — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:37:30 +0000

The once-decried free trade deals of the primaries have been all but abandoned as political boogeymen.

Forgotten History

Oscar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:13:55 +0000

The Mexican flag not only symbolizes our country, but the history involved in becoming a country. The colors green, white and red represent Unity, Hope, and the blood shed by are national heroes in their fight for our independence. The centered...

President Bush, the media's forgotten man

AP — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:43:52 +0000

They want you, they need you, they lose interest, they leave you for someone else.

Ark. suspect leaves behind cell phone for police

AP — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:59:45 +0000

Forrest City police weren’t able to catch their man after a high-speed chase through town, but the cell phone he left behind gave away his identity.The chase started just before 11 p.m. Monday after officers received a call about people...

Charge dropped against woman left in cell 4 days

AP — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:34:57 +0000

A woman who was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food or water will not be prosecuted on the charge that landed her in the system, a prosecutor said Tuesday.A charge of selling pirated recordings was dropped Monday...

Bureaucracy's victim: 50 years for a crime that never was

AP — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Age may have slowed him, but P.P. James wakes up early every day to head into the fields and harvest rice.The short, wiry 84-year-old pulls a worn red baseball cap over his tousled gray hair, hikes up his sarong and, with quiet determination,...

Ark. Bailiff Who Forgot Inmate Suspended

AP — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:30:51 +0000

A bailiff has been suspended for 30 days without pay for leaving a woman in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom.A statement Wednesday from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office says Cpl. Jarrod...

Illegal Immigrant Left in Cell 4 Days

AP — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:33:50 +0000

A bailiff is under an internal investigation after a woman spent four days forgotten in a holding cell without food, water or a toilet.Bailiff Jarrod Hankins put Adriana Torres-Flores in the cell to await transport to jail Thursday and didn’t...

Woman Forgotten in Cell Over Weekend

AP — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:19:50 +0000

A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with no food, water, or toilet, authorities and the woman said.Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, appeared in court Thursday and pleaded not...

Furs Found After 30 Years in Storage

AP — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:56:47 +0000

Sam Haskins didn’t ask for a fur coat for Christmas. But he got six of them.Haskins, the new owner of a hardware store, made an unexpected discovery early this month when he started poking around the basement: a climate-controlled vault...