Elderly Anti-Logging Protester to Check into the Crowbar Hotel - Again
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By CAMILLE BAINS  VANCOUVER (CP) - An elderly environmentalist who has already spent more than two years in jail for anti-logging protests was handed a 10-month sentence for criminal contempt of court Monday.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom  on Monday vowed to campaign against the interests of the city's  hotel owners and join the picket line if management fails to  end a lockout of about 4,000 workers by 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday asked labor leaders and the management of 14 hotels embroiled in a nearly month-old dispute to resume normal operations for at least 90 days while the two sides try to negotiate a new contract.
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Northern Ireland police ombudsman will re-examine John Stalker files.
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Discounted hotels and Broadway show tickets for convention protesters?
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John Perry Barlow, a 56-year-old former songwriter for the Grateful Dead, contends that the alleged drugs found inside his luggage during an airport inspection cannot be admitted as evidence because they were seized illegally.
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MAE SOT, Thailand - One of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Burma, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond, and wearing a crucifix.
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Iraq War Veteran Evan Knappenberger has brought his one-man protest against the Department of Defense "stop-loss" policy, which extends the service of troops beyond their contractual terms, to the Mall. But instead of demonstrating, he's holding a vigil in a makeshift guard tower erected in the s...
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An Iraq war veteran could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest.
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A fugitive former left-wing extremist fighting extradition to Italy where he has been convicted for terrorist offenses has failed to make a required regular check-in with Paris police, his lawyer said.
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A 73-year-old dissident who was freed after nearly a decade in a Myanmar prison vowed Monday to continue campaigning for democracy in the military-ruled country.
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Police issue a fresh appeal for information about a 38-year-old businessman who disappeared a year ago.
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Police call for witnesses who may have been at the club where DJ Kevin Greening was the night before he died.
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Nearly 40 years after he allegedly defected to communist North Korea, US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins was back in uniform Saturday, billeted on this American
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A former Florida professor has not eaten for more than a month to protest prosecutors' efforts to make him cooperate with their investigation into whether a network of Herndon-based Muslim charities financed terrorist organizations.
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The London hospital from which a convicted rapist escaped for the second time orders a review.
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