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Does anyone here remember R.Budd Dwyer, the politician who committed suicide on national TV during a press conference?

(Black News) Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kickbacks amounted to more than $1 million. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by him between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the...

Learning the meaning of Memorial Day DAVE SHULTZ Updated: 05/28/2010 03:19:06 PM EDT How does one measure the value of freedom? I began to learn the answer to this question as a teen, and in the strangest of places. Growing up in New Freedom, I belonged to the town's drum corps. It was a given that whenever the town had an event, the drum corps would perform. Such was the case every year on the last Monday in May. We'd get into formation in the church parking lot on the edge of town, the drum corps, antique cars, the Boy...

Lawyer Accuses Murphy Of Fraud On Her Resume By: WILLIAM MULGREW, The Evening Bulletin 11/06/2006 A Villanova University law professor accused Democratic congressional candidate Lois Murphy of committing fraud on her professional resume by taking sole credit for the published works of other authors. Professor Patrick Brennan made the charges during a phone conference organized by the Jim Gerlach campaign, Lois Murphy's opponent in Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District. On her resume, available on-line at her law firm of Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, Murphy takes credit for a law journal article she didn't author, followed by three other publications that...

Pennsylvania: Fox News' Beltway Boys Predict Upset in PA Senate Race Republican Assembly efforts noted The popular weekly political talk show "Beltway Boys" on the Fox News Network predicted an upset win by conservative Congressman Pat Toomey against Incumbent RINO Senator Arlen Specter. To the surprise of many inside the Washington DC beltway, a solid pro-life Republican who will support President Bush in judicial nominations and in tax policy is on the verge of an upset victory over the liberal Senator who has fought the President on both crucial issues. Despite the efforts by Specter to derail the President's nominees...

Veterans Health Administration Stars & Stripes Healthcare Network Homepage Basic Information About Our Network VISN 4 Medical Centers CBOC Veterans Benefits Guide Veterans First (quarterly publication) State Fact Sheets Links for Veterans Agent Orange Registry Coodinators Women Veterans Programs Families Matter Coordinators Homeless Program Coordinators Text Only        Serving Those Who Served VA Stars & Stripes Healthcare NetworkMission: VA Stars & Stripes Healthcare Network is part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. We provide health care and social services to veterans, who have earned and are eligible for those services. There are more than 1.5 million veterans...