Ga. Sheriff's 27 Firings Overturned
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A sheriff whose firing of 27 employees on his first day in office was overturned by a judge agreed Tuesday to reinstate their pay and benefits, but insisted they would not necessarily get their jobs back.
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By Mick Walsh, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Mar. 14--Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock, who has been named as a temporary replacement for Lt. Gen.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration, firearms and other issues, White House and Justice Department officials said yesterday....
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Three More People Arrested in Md. Residential Arson Case, a Day After Security Guard Charged. Aaron Speed, 21, right, is escorted out of the Charles County Sheriff&#39;s office in La Plata, Md.
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LOBATSE, Botswana  - Botswana's High Court ruled on Wednesday that more than 1,000 Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return.
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A state appeals court overturned a theft conviction against state Sen. Gary Siplin on Friday, saying a jury wrongly convicted him of having an employee do campaign work on state time.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 14--On Tuesday, the sheriff of Lincoln County resigned, pled guilty to embezzlement and began two years of probation.   Normally, we do not comment on the local affairs of a county as far away from the Coast as Lincoln (where U.S.
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By Vin Mannix, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--IRange deputies. That's what Sheriff Charlie Wells calls Sgt. Bill Riley and Deputies Tim Eason, Michael Ference and Rob Hendrickson.   Agricultural Crime Unit doesn't do them justice.   Especially today.
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Robert Henderson was not fired as a state trooper because he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another white supremacist group, authorities said. Instead, he was ousted because he could not uphold public trust while participating in such groups, they said.
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The recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys has raised questions about how they are appointed and the circumstances under which they may be dismissed. Here are some questions and answers:
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 21--Four residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep Cusseta-Chattahoochee County from creating a police department.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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NEWTON, Ga.  -- A powerful storm system packing tornadoes that killed at least seven people in Alabama and one other in Missouri is being blamed for nine more deaths in Georgia, a state official said early Friday.
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A Thursday headline misstated the rank of retired Salt Lake County Sheriff's Capt. Lloyd Prescott.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 12--BILOXI -- The cost of defending the Harrison County Sheriff's Department against civil actions went up again Monday when county supervisors approved payment of more than $14,000 to lawyers representing Sheriff George H. Payne Jr.