ACLU accuses Miss. mayor of profiling
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The national American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday accused the city's black mayor of civil rights violations including racial profiling in his crusade to stem crime in Mississippi's capital city.
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A longtime local government worker is fired after she cooperates with an investigation of sexual harassment allegations against a high-ranking official. The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether federal civil rights law protects employees from such retaliation.
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By TOM GALLAGHER  For the record, I will insist that formal discussions about allegations made against me by Mayor Lionel Rivera occur in public and be open to public participation. The issues bear on matters of ethics and values of your elected officials; the people have a right to know.
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JACKSON, Miss., June 29 -- The head of a Mississippi Democratic Party organization illegally suppressed white residents' votes, a federal judge ruled Friday in the first case filed by the Justice Department alleging that whites were subjected to voting discrimination based on their race.
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The city's top watchdog agency has criticized the Fire Department for awarding promotions to firefighters who purchased bogus college degrees on the Internet.
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ST. LOUIS - Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."   The America Coming Together handout accuses Republicans of conspiring to suppress the black vote through intimidation and such tactics as putting "phony cops at polling places - but only in African American neighborhoods."  "They make African-American voters stand in line for hours, then turn them away from the polls," the flier reads...
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Colman M. Herman, the Dorchester activist who made enforcement of the state's item-pricing regulation a one-man crusade, has struck again.
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A South Texas mayor, Grace Saenz-Lopez, and her twin sister, are accused of dog rustling.
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NEW YORK, September 23  - A Mississippi resident has flied a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.NYS) alleging that the retail giant discriminates against African-Americans seeking jobs as truck drivers with the company.
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A prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into allegations that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with his top aide. Some political observers are questioning whether the popular yet polarizing figure should stay on the job.
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A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued Monday that the government's defense of the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was inconsistent in defining what kind of online content is harmful to minors, and so the law should continue to remain unenforceable because it violates free speech.
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NITRO, W.Va. - A city councilwoman refused to take her seat because someone switched her nameplate with another council member and glued them down, leading the mayor to order the police chief to find the culprit...
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By Alan Riquelmy, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 8--A former employee for the Columbus Consolidated Government has filed suit against the city, alleging race discrimination and retaliation.
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The Orleans Parish sheriff was accused in a lawsuit Friday of violating the civil rights of inmates in his custody during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
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Sheriff's deputies in the Phoenix area on Thursday began asking drivers getting ticketed for certain traffic violations to provide their fingerprints, drawing criticism from civil rights activists.
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Mayor John M. Fabrizi admitted Tuesday he had abused cocaine while in office and said he wanted to apologize &quot;to all the people of the city&quot; but had no plans to resign.
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The former police commissioner has filed a lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully fired last week after law enforcement officials met with federal authorities to discuss an ongoing probe into city corruption.