Scant support for LA sheriff recall
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More than two months after it was initiated, an effort to remove Sheriff Lee Baca from office because of his handling of Paris Hilton's jail sentence has gained scant support.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--PASCAGOULA -- With their constituents wanting to know when they will get to vote on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' proposed casino, some Jackson County supervisors are wondering whether they can even hold an election.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 20--For $1.4 million, Destin deserves more sheriff's deputies on the streets than it receives, City Councilor Jim Bagby says.
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By JAY FEIL  Mandan  I was raised in Mandan and have spent most of my career trying to help Mandan prosper. I can no longer sit silently by and listen to the recent innuendo attached to the upcoming recall election.
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The LA police chief has built a solid record of reform. But another episode of  police violence has thrown a new term into doubt
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Will cable competition destroy the local emergency alert system in Los Angeles County? We're not willing to find out.
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One answer to a juror shortage: Dispatch sheriff's deputies to drag people in off the street.
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ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana  - The U.S. primary elections have been called the most gripping in recent years but not in the Deep South state of Louisiana where parties struggled to motivate voters on Saturday.
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Doctors and lawyers who represent victims aren&#39;t going to declare peace just because voters put a few things in the state&#39;s constitution.
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
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Election officials are questioning how many of a batch of 58,000 absentee ballots reached Broward County voters who requested them more than two weeks ago. State police investigated but found no criminal violations.
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Earlier this week, several police officers charged in a deadly shooting during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina returned to work. Now, some await word about whether they will face the death penalty.
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LOS ANGELES A civil rights debate is surrounding the proposed closure of a trauma unit at a troubled Los Angeles County public hospital.
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Plans created at the state and U.S. level to protect Louisiana from Katrina-sized hurricanes would fail to guard dozens of communities.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.
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Opponents of a measure to add slot machines at south Florida race tracks are demanding a recount in Broward County, insisting there is something strange about a batch of 78,000 absentee votes that helped tip the scales for the proposal.
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France appears reluctant to commit its own forces to save the government, but the rebels are unlikely to win much recognition if they win