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Stop-smoking efforts don't see money

States have collected billions of dollars from tobacco companies but spent only 3 percent of it to combat smoking - a less-than-robust response to the high costs of health care associated with smoking, a federal report released Thursday says.

Of the $243.8 billion in tobacco money received from 1998 to ...

Ohio teenager to be tried as adult in school slayings

CHARDON, Ohio — A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday after hearing a sheriff's deputy describe how the teen wore a T-shirt with the word "Killer" and admitted shooting people.

T.J. Lane admitted firing at ...

Idaho town seeks to lure gun and ammo makers

POTLATCH, IDAHO — This small community in the forested, western foothills of the Rocky Mountains was created as a company town to house workers for the nation's largest white pine sawmill, and its tidy homes and straight, tree-lined streets are a testament to its planners.

But the town has slumbered ...

American Scene: Maine fire on nuclear sub at shipyard hurts 7

MAINE

KITTERY — Officials are venting smoke and noxious fumes from a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard so they can get inside to assess what a fire did to it.

Firefighters from the shipyard and coastal departments in Maine and New Hampshire spent Wednesday night and early Thursday fighting ...

HuffPo: "FBI Web Surveillance: Bureau Creates Unit To Eavesdrop On Internet Communications"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35

HuffPo: FBI Web Surveillance: Bureau Creates Unit To Eavesdrop On Internet Communications by Sara Gates:

With the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recent push for web wiretaps and increased Internet surveillance, the U.S. seems to be edging closer to the fictional state described in George Orwell's "1984."

As CNET reported earlier this week, the FBI recently created a secret web-surveillance unit, the Domestic Communications Assistance Center, aimed at creating tech that would allow the authorities to more easily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. The DCAC will act as hub for all web surveillance, but will not be directly involved in executing Internet wiretapping court orders or operating investigations if proposed legislation passes as planned.

Tea Party Sarah Backs Establishment Fossil Hatch

TruthNews.US - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35
Kurt Nimmo | Hatch loves the bankers just as much as Ronnie did -- he voted no less than sixteen times to raise the so-called debt ceiling.

Planet Infowars: Network Against NWO Tyranny

TruthNews.US - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35
Planet Infowars | Planet Infowars is your tool for publishing, launching a personalized media platform, and organizing with like-minded individuals at the local and global level.

Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs

DALLAS — Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months, touted as a solution to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.

Nearly 250 cases have been reported this year ...

Refuting Heritage on Foreign Policy

TruthNews.US - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35
tenthamendmentcenter.com | Heritage Foundation quests Thomas Jefferson’s declaration that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

S.D.Ill.: IAC claim has to show search issue would have prevailed and changed outcome of case

FourthAmendment.com - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35

When an IAC search claim is filed, the petitioner has to show what the search was and that he would prevail and the verdict would be different. Fuller v. United States, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70813 (S.D. Ill. May 22, 2012) (citing Johnson v. Thurmer, 624 F.3d 786, 792-93 (7th Cir. 2010) (citing Kimmelman v. Morrison, 477 U.S. 365, 375, 106 S. Ct. 2574, 91 L. Ed. 2d 305 (1986))).

Stopping car in the middle of the street was reasonable suspicion for a stop. State v. Foster, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 323 (May 17, 2012).*

The anticipatory warrant in this case was valid, despite a typographical error in the tracking number because of the otherwise specific description of the package and the place to be searched. State v. Davidson, 2012 Tenn. App. LEXIS 323 (May 17, 2012).*

US Drone Strike ‘Kills Eight in Pakistan’

TruthNews.US - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 03:35
NY Daily News | 'The New America Foundation think-tank says drone strikes have killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people in Pakistan in the past eight years.'
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