A Steel Magnolia With Handcuffs
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By FRAZIER MOORE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  THE CLOSER  9 p.m. Monday, TNT  As folks might say back in Atlanta, where she hails from, Brenda Leigh Johnson is a caution. She's a stitch. She's a sight.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...
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Robert K. Steel is a Washington oddity. He holds two high-powered jobs, one inside and the other outside government.
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It's got all the elements of a Delta blues ballad from the days of Jim Crow: hangman's nooses dangling from a shade tree; a mysterious fire in the night; swift deliberations by a condemning, all-white jury.
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The steelmaker isn't having a blast, but it is buttressed against adversity.
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Arts & entertainment: The thirtysomething drama is under siege from crime shows. Danny Brocklehurst on why shaky love lives and career woes make for proper drama.
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By Robert E. Kessler, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 27--A wealthy Muttontown couple accused of enslaving two housekeepers may be getting out of a federal jail on bail shortly.
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact
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Erik Estrada carried a gun but rarely used it to stop bad guys in his 1970s TV police drama "CHiPs." Now, the 57-year-old Estrada and other celebrities are training to carry guns for real, along with badges as Muncie reserve officers as part of a reality CBS TV show.
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By Tammy M. Smith, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 22--BILOXI -- Metallics can be simultaneously subtle and striking.
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1. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton
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John Sayles struggles to establish â and maintain â an authentic rhythm in a film about the roots of rock 'n' roll in the South.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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âRambo,â directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, has its own kind of blockheaded poetry.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 8--Was it a prank? The photo of three young men posed with guns "gangsta-style" that law enforcers included in a warrant to investigate a robbery.