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Obama to nominate Bush-era Justice Dept. official to head FBI
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official who famously challenged warrantless eavesdropping under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as director of the FBI,...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), George W. Bush, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, FBI
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State's Attorney's office regrets characterization of defendants as 'mutts'
Change of SubjectOn his Lisagor Award-winning Huffington Post blog, David Protess wrote yesterday about what he saw yesterday in a Cook County Courtroom. First, his summary of the case: Armando Serrano and Jose Montanez were convicted of a 1993 murder based primarily........ -
FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...
Tags: Judges, News Media, Google Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Chicago's black legal community meets to stem youth violence
Herschella Conyers is an attorney who, along with several judges, recently invited a bunch of people to the University of Chicago to talk about violence and the growing number of teens getting entangled in the criminal justice system. Typically, these...
Tags: Judges, University of Chicago, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: General Practitioners, Abortion, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Colleges and Universities
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Illinois Catholic couple taking on Obama over contraception mandate
An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....
Tags: Springfield, Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Colleges and Universities, Antonin Scalia
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Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman named to campaign watchdog panel
PolitiCalState Controller John Chiang appointed Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman to serve on the panel that enforces campaign finance and conflict-of-interest laws, bypassing a more controversial figure also vying for the seat.... -
Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Lazard Limited, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Colleges and Universities
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Direct Relief International, Ethics, Crime, Law and Justice, Haiti
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Robert B. Murdock, 80
Robert Brevoort Murdock, 80, of 18717 Dover Drive in Hagerstown, Md., died Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., due to complications following valve replacement surgery. Born Aug. 4, 1932, in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was...
Tags: University of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Washington Hospital Center
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Mental health care offers easy target for budget ax
Health care has dominated the headlines recently at the federal, state and local levels: The Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act. Six of 12 Chicago-run community mental health clinics are shut, as is the state-run Tinley Park Mental Health...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Nursing, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care, Behavioral Conditions
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Medicaid drug restrictions thus far seen as bitter pill for patients, providers
To illustrate the early problems the state is having as it makes large-scale cuts to its Medicaid program, consider the new limit on prescription drugs. For the most part, low-income people used to be able to get an unlimited number of prescriptions...
Tags: Sara Feigenholtz, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Medical Professionals
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