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A re-sentencing hearing for one of four killers who were imprisoned as teens for life without parole decades ago, two of them among the state’s most notorious murderers, has been scheduled for the fall.
U.S. presidential elections have become garish media spectacles. It is a bazaar of candidates, consultants, pundits, and assorted hucksters that lasts a full two years—half the length of an elected president’s term in office. Every four years, the American people endure by far the longest and most expensive election of any nation in the world—until the next one.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Thirty years into a life sentence for a rape conviction that was overturned Jan. 26, George D. Perrot was set free on his own recognizance on Wednesday at a bail hearing at Bristol County Superior Court in New Bedford.
In New Hampshire, the top five lobbying entities are: Northeast Utilities PLC, Comcast Corp., New Hampshire Home Builders Association, Select Management Resources and Reynolds American Inc., according to a Center For Public Integrity investigation.
Howling from the Mountain: There is nothing in the world like walking down a woodland trail with no apparent wolf sign only to see that on the return trip, wolves, hiding just off the trail, had tracked us and veered off when they sensed our return.
Financially speaking, Will Jawando, a former campaign staffer for President Obama, isn’t doing well in the crowded contest for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District seat. With just $357,000 raised as of Dec. 31, he trails the race’s top fundraiser, Kathleen Matthews, by more than a million dollars.
Donors to the nonprofit group Crossroads GPS, founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, no longer have to worry about their identities being disclosed. After a five-year wait, the IRS has approved the organization’s application for tax-exempt status.
New Hampshire and Iowa set the stage for passionate voter participation during the nation’s first presidential primary and first presidential precinct caucuses.
Chalk it up to hotly contested nomination campaigns in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
