Judge orders city to stop homeless raids
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When city workers tore down her hillside encampment, Charlene Clay lost her asthma medicine, sleeping bags and her only photos of her dead granddaughter.
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By Betsy Gilliland  AIKEN - The city has set aside funding and put a task force in place to preserve open space.  Now officials need to educate the community and themselves about the best way to meet the challenge.
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A federal judge Monday ordered the Pentagon to stop a tribunal against a former driver for Osama bin Laden and return him to the regular population at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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A lawsuit seeking to block a new state law that gave Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partial control of the nation's second-largest school district has gone to a judge.
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Roadside camping and parking bans are constitutional, a federal judge ruled, blocking protesters from pitching tents or placing portable toilets in ditches near President Bush's ranch.
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By ANABELLE GARAY  DALLAS - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch from enforcing a voter-approved law prohibiting apartment rentals to illegal immigrants until a legal challenge is resolved.  U.S.
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State Supreme Court judge ruled today that New York City can ban protesters from using the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sunday for a rally, the largest planned for the Republican National Convention, according to The Associated Press.
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Turning away a squad of Marine Corps reservists planning a weekend of training downtown has put the city's mayor in the crossfire of veterans.
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By Matt Krasnowski  and Dan Laidman COPLEY NEWS SERVICE  The Los Angeles City Council is expected today to consider a tentative settlement in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit that has prevented police from arresting homeless people who camp on the sidewalks of Skid Row.
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LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has allowed the county to continue with its plans to close the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that two protest groups cannot use New York City's Central Park as a site for a demonstration days before the Republican National Convention.
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The city wants slum dwellers in apartments, but demolitions have left thousands homeless.
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A judge on Wednesday declined to order city officials to give an anti-war group permission to rally in Central Park on the eve of the Republican convention, leaving uncertain where thousands of protesters will go after a march past
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A judge on Wednesday ordered seven young children removed from their home after authorities discovered it was infested with rats and filled with garbage, including stacks of dirty diapers nearly 4 feet high in closets.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) yesterday asked the Washington Convention Center Authority to halt a scheduled vote on recommendations for a new hotel site, delaying action for at least another two weeks.
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Demolition of three public housing complexes, slated to start this weekend, was halted Friday amid complaints about the scarcity of housing for the poor after Hurricane Katrina.