Deal Reached on Sex Offenders Bill
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The deal marked the second time this week that Gov. Eliot Spitzer broke a deadlock on a contentious issue that had divided New York lawmakers for years.
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In a record pay-off settlement by an American Diocese, the Catholic Roman Catholic diocese of Orange agreed to pay some $100 million to settle accounts with 87 sexually molested victims of its past priests, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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By Ken Dixon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  May 25--HARTFORD -- The House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would require Connecticut's 4,100 registered sex offenders to submit their e-mail addresses to law enforcement authorities.
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The US president and rebel senators reach a deal on a controversial bill on interrogating terror suspects.
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One of America's most wanted suspected sex offenders agrees to be extradited from Hong Kong to the US.
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The state of Maryland has paid $200,000 to the parents of a slain 9-year-old boy to settle their claim that the killer, a convicted sex offender, was wrongly freed from prison five days before the murder. But the boy's mother may seek more, her attorney said.
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Stay offline or face 18 months in jail, $10,000 fine Convicted sex offenders who used websites to help them commit their crimes are to be banned from using the internet under a tough new measure signed into New Jersey law yesterday.â¦
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The White House and GOP senators reached an agreement on a bill setting out procedures for interrogating terror suspects and trying them in front of military tribunals, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced Thursday.
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Proposed law suggests fines, jail sentences for guilty parties.
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New York officials want sex offenders to provide their Internet identities to the state, which would then share the information with social networking sites like MySpace to protect users from online predators, according to a law proposed Tuesday.
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About 150 people who claimed they were molested by priests have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland for an undisclosed amount.
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A new bill aimed at tackling organised crime will be published by the government on Wednesday morning.
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US congressional negotiators reached agreement on a sweeping intelligence overhaul bill Monday after a-month-long standoff, paving the way for lawmakers to pass the legislation
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Sex offenders could be forced to register their e-mail addresses and chatroom names, the government says.
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Senate Democratic and GOP leaders and the key architects of a comprehensive immigration reform bill reached a deal to revive the bill Thursday.
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The state has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit with a convicted murderer who alleged that state prison staff raped and assaulted her.
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A review of information on sex offenders will give parents more rights but stops short of a 'Sarah's Law'.