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Since Hurricane Ike struck — pitching much of the city into darkness — Houston police have made about 280 arrests every day. Most were for nonviolent offenses, including 388 for public intoxication and 335 for drug possession, police said. The totals actually show a decrease from pre-Ike levels, when Houston police were arresting about 370 people daily, according to department officials. "A lot of the credit goes to the visibility of the officers. We're trying to deter as much crime as we possibly can," said HPD spokesman John Cannon. Arrests for looting have dwindled. Of the 168 arrests made since...

Making another step forward in recovering from Hurricane Ike, Metro officials announced late Sunday that the light rail will run on a regular schedule Monday and that HOV lanes on I-45 North will be reopen in the morning. ... Meanwhile, power outages across much of the city prompted Houston police to extend the citywide curfew until further notice. Curfew hours are from midnight until 6 a.m. "The purpose of the curfew is to protect the lives and property of all residents as law enforcement and other officials respond to emergencies and engage in recovery activities related to this disaster," the...

The city, created in 2006 after the rival cities of Helena and West Helena joined, is in one of the nation's poorest regions, trailing even parts of Appalachia in its standard of living. Phillips County lost a third of its population from 1970 to 2000 and, of the 24,107 people who remain, more than a quarter live in poverty.

Go home or go to jail! Those are the only two options for people living in one Mid-South neighborhood. The mayor of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas has issued a mandatory curfew. the curfew is in place for an area he refers to as a "hot spot" for crime. It applies to anyone, any age, and any time of day. According to Mayor James Valley, this move is in the best interest of the city. "This curfew is for all people...everyone is subject to be stopped - almost like marshal law. And that's exactly what some are calling it. The mayor has...

Three-day curfew ends in Baghdad Baghdad's Sadr City is still burying its dead from the fighting Iraqi authorities have lifted a curfew in Baghdad, allowing people to leave their homes and easing most measures put in force on Thursday. Driving is still prohibited in three mainly Shia districts, including Sadr City, which saw some of the heaviest fighting last week. Mehdi Army militiamen have withdrawn from the streets, residents say. On Sunday, their leader, radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, ordered them to stop fighting Iraqi security forces. The fighting has claimed more than 240 lives across the country since Tuesday....

UPDATE ON YESTERDAYS STORY Hartford (WTNH) _ A new city ordinance that went into effect Wednesday has been violated by two Albany Avenue convenience stores, Hartford police say. The new law applies to convenience stores and gas stations open between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. Such stores must have appropriate security measures in place, including security cameras, a silent alarm and a drop safe, among other things. Police say they conducted inspections at Jay's Smoke Shop and Smoker's Stop Family Grocery around 1 a.m. this morning and found both stores to be operating without a license that...

Success In Iraq: The relaxing of Baghdad's curfew is a sign that the U.S.-troop-surge strategy is working as planned. It's also bad news for the party of defeat. This has been a frustrating war with many false starts to apparent victory. So we don't want to make too much of Tuesday's announcement by the Iraqi government that it was shortening the curfew in Baghdad by two hours. Security has improved in the capital, so residents now can stay out till 10 p.m. This is progress, but (as we've seen before) progress can be reversed.

Iraq: total curfew on the Holy City of Najaf of fear of an attack NAJAF (Iraq) - a total curfew was imposed and until new order on the area of Najaf, by fear of an attack of armed groups, four days after violent one engagements between a militia Shiite and Iraqi and American forces, announced Friday the local authorities. “Fire, imposed in the night of Thursday on Friday covers It, was prolonged and it touches all the area of Najaf without exception including Koufa, in the North-East of the Holy City”, affirmed the police force of this city located...

The Lebanese army, struggling to restore order to the streets of the capital after violence Thursday, has imposed a nighttime curfew in Beirut, a military official said. The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, told The Associated Press that the curfew would last from 8:30 p.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday.

Checkpoints to Combat New Orleans Crime Wednesday January 10, 2007 4:01 AM By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police plan to set up checkpoints beginning Wednesday to help curb a crime wave that has claimed nine lives since the start of 2007, Mayor Ray Nagin said, stopping short of imposing a curfew on this tourism-dependent city. The checkpoints will operate between 2 a.m. and 6 p.m., when about a third of the city's violent crime occurs, and will target drug and alcohol violations as well as motorist insurance. The first one was to be held in...

NEW ORLEANS - With at least eight slayings in the city in the first week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem the violence, the police superintendent said Saturday. "It's something we're just sort of talking about, to see if that will make a difference," police Superintendent Warren Riley said. Mayor Ray Nagin, meanwhile, urged residents not to leave the city, still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, because of the recent killings. He said the slayings could be a tipping point that "galvanizes our community" to find solutions. Nagin and Riley both tried to reassure residents...

HOUSTON -- Houston Mayor Bill White's daughter was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, officials told KPRC Local 2. MORE AT LINK

WASHINGTON (July 31) - City officials are moving up a nighttime curfew as they try to overcome a spike in crime that's been marked by a rise in juvenile arrests. Beginning Monday, most juveniles could be taken into police custody if they are found on the streets of the nation's capital between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The curfew used to begin at midnight. "Too often, young people are becoming involved in violent crimes," said Mayor Anthony A. Williams. "This earlier curfew hour is necessary in order to protect them from becoming victims of crime or from becoming involved in...

A bouncer at Spirit, a club on West 27th Street in Manhattan, checking young women's IDs. Many say underage patrons have no trouble getting in. The velvet rope outside one of Manhattan's trendiest nightclubs was but a gateway for Michael, a 19-year-old from Long Island.  Followed by his four male friends, all 19 or 20, he sashayed past a stagnant line of 50 people waiting outside Mood NY during the early morning hours Saturday. From a pocket inside his black sports jacket, he pulled out his Bank of America credit card and whispered to the bouncer that he planned...

US capital introduces curfew after crime wave Fri Jul 21, 4:47 PM ETAFP/File Photo: Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, seen here in February 2006, announced that the US capital will... WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US capital will introduce a 10:00 pm curfew for teenagers and deploy more police officers following a crime wave that saw 15 murders at the start of the month, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams said. Washington DC's crime wave included the murder of a young British national, who was slashed to death in the throat on July 9 in the upscale tourist district of Georgetown. The US capital...

KATMANDU, Nepal — Protesters demanding a return to democracy postponed a rally that had been expected to draw thousands on Saturday, after the king imposed an all-day curfew and ordered violators shot on sight. Khadga Prasad Oli, deputy leader of the Communist Party of Nepal, called the curfew "unnecessary, illegal and illogical" and said the protesters would try to hold the rally on Sunday. Seven main political parties organized the rally as the high point of a four-day general strike that has shut down the capital Katmandu, where King Gyanendra's refusal to give up absolute rule has led to growing...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The Iraqi prime minister's office says vehicles will be banned in Baghdad and its outskirts during the daytime Friday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Appeals from religious leaders and an unusual daytime curfew Friday curbed violence that claimed more than 140 lives across Iraq after the bombing of a Shiite shrine. President Bush joined in calling for calm, saying "This is a moment of choosing for the Iraqi people." Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari reached out to Sunnis and Shiites, promising to rebuild the Shiites' Askariya shrine in Samarra and Sunni mosques damaged in two days of reprisal attacks. The daytime curfew kept most vehicles and pedestrians off the streets of Baghdad, preventing many people from reaching mosques for the main...

Not respect of the curfew: what envisages the law Any person enfreignant the rules of curfew incurs two months closes and or 3.750 euros of fine. As into normal time, the imprisonment is divided by two for the minors, that is to say one month. Moreover, the prefect can authorize searchings day and night without the police force needing the green light of the judicial power. This measurement, indicated the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy, will apply in the event of suspicion of detention of weapons, or then, said the Prime Minister to the French National Assembly, "in the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The nearly 200,000 residents returning to some of New Orleans' neighborhoods beginning next week will face military checkpoints, a lack of clean tap water and a dusk-to-dawn curfew that could keep the good times from rolling for a while.

NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AP) - Thai authorities prepared Monday to impose a state of emergency for insurgency-hit areas of the country's Muslim south, as violence continued unabated with two slayings and a bombing that wounded seven security personnel. A raid on the southern city of Yala by militants last week that left two policemen dead and 22 people injured prompted the Cabinet to adopt a decree Friday giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sweeping new emergency powers. The decree expands the government's authority to impose curfews, ban public gatherings, censor news, close publications, limit travel, detain suspects without charge, confiscate property and...

Men accused of violating storm curfewFour suspects also could face trespassing charges after being found gathering mushrooms in a field, authorities said Wednesday, July 13, 2005 By DAVID FERRARA Staff Reporter BAY MINETTE -- Baldwin County sheriff's deputies arrested at least four men in the final hours of a countywide curfew issued to keep residents safe during Hurricane Dennis and while many homeowners remained away from the county in the storm's wake, authorities said Tuesday. The men were first spotted shortly before 11 p.m. Monday in a farming area near Baldwin County 49, just north of Gulf Shores, according to...

SEOUL — Thomas Ungleich is facing three weeks of unpaid leave that he neither wants nor, he believes, deserves. Ungleich, 58, a Defense Department worker with the 7th Air Force at Osan Air Base, is in trouble at work for something he did out of the office. He stayed out too late. In early December, Ungleich broke curfew, a U.S. Forces Korea rule requiring all U.S. military members, government workers and private contractors — and their families — to be at home, at work or at an on-base activity between midnight and 5 a.m. daily. “I was out, there’s no...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Authorities in Oakland hope a curfew imposed on people on probation will help cut down on crime. As a condition of release from jail, probationers in Oakland are now required to stay in their homes between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. seven days a week. The only exceptions are for work and emergencies. Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown said the plan has been in the works for two years and getting it implemented, at just the county level, was "like climbing Mount Everest." Brown said 80 percent of homicides in the city involve felons who...

New Jersey--Daytime Curfew Bill Scheduled for Vote Monday Dear HSLDA members and friends: A daytime curfew bill that has already passed the Senate may have an impact on homeschoolers. The Assembly will probably vote on S155 on Monday, and it is very unlikely it will be defeated. Therefore HSLDA is prepared to help homeschoolers at the local level if problems arise from this legislation. As it is written, it authorizes municipalities to adopt curfew ordinances forbidding public and private school students--but not homeschool students--from being in public places during the hours their school is in session. If the bill...

A change to the recently adopted child curfew law was unanimously approved during last night's meeting of the Wartrace Board of Mayor and Alderman. The change was made to be consistent with TCA 39-17-1702 which establishes a curfew for minors between the ages of 17 and 18 Monday through Thursday from 11 p.m. - 6 a.m. and Friday through Sunday from 12 a.m. - 6 a.m. Those minors 16 years and under will have a curfew 10 p.m. - 6 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 p.m. - 6 a.m. Friday through Sunday. The original ordinance passed by board members...

<p>A federal appeals court ruled today that Indiana's curfew law is unconstitutional because it could dissuade children from exercising their First Amendment rights for fear of being arrested.</p> <p>The state's law bans minors from being out past 11 p.m. on weeknights and 1 a.m. on weekends.</p>

AFP - The overnight curfew that has been in effect in Baghdad for the past six months will be lifted on Sunday, in time for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, authorities announced. "Coalition authorities have informed the Baghdad City Council that the curfew in Baghdad will be lifted beginning 4am on October 26," council chairman Adnan Abdul Sahib Hassan said. "Despite some highly publicised attacks by terrorists and supporters of the former regime, the overall security situation in Baghdad has improved," he said. The official said that lifting the curfew was "a great step forward for the people of...

Curfew that targets teenage Aborigines is criticised as racist By Kathy Marks in Perth 08 September 2003 A group of Aboriginal youngsters wanders past a row of cafés in Northbridge, Perth's nightlife district, glancing covetously at the plates of alfresco diners. The street lights cast shadows across their faces. It is curfew time: if they are not home soon, they will be picked up by police under a policy criticised as wrong-headed and racist. The crackdown has been ordered by Geoff Gallop, the state premier, who says he is alarmed by the sight of unsupervised children - some as young...

Thursday, August 28 Curfew possible to combat malaria By Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 28, 2003 Despite a record seven locally transmitted malaria cases and a looming threat of a West Nile virus outbreak, Palm Beach County health director Dr. Jean Malecki said Wednesday she still hopes to avoid a curfew. "I'm hoping people will take responsibility for themselves without our having to turn their lives upside down," she said. But, she said, she learned as a Girl Scout leader, "Always be prepared." What experts are calling the most significant malaria outbreak in Florida since the...

Curfew Cleveland has imposed a curfew from 9:30 p.m. until dawn. No power? Call FirstEnergy to report 1-888-544-4877 (888-LIGHTSS) Boil alert Amherst residents are asked to boil their water before drinking it Traffic Traffic lights are down throughout the area. Outgoing flights cancelled at Cleveland Hopkins RTA rapids are not running, buses will pick up the stranded passengers Best advice: Stay where you are Drink water to stay hydrated Don't drive if you don't have to Don't: Water lawns or gardens, shower, wash your car

Public health officials struggled to keep about 1,500 teenagers in quarantine yesterday, a task that proved insurmountable when some left their confinement to have fun. On the first day of quarantine for students of Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy, just north of Toronto, one was already out shopping, while another invited friends to a concert where he was going to be playing last night. Murray McQuigge, a spokesman for York Region's public health department, knows all too well that grounding an entire school without any supervision is far from easy. "I'm sure that after this the parents of those kids...

In 1997, HSLDA filed a suit on behalf of member families in Monrovia, California, challenging the city's daytime curfew. The case is now before the California Court of Appeals for the second time. Oral arguments have been set for September 11, 2002, at 1:00 p.m. If you would like to attend, the hearing will be at the Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District, located at 300 South Spring Street, Los Angeles. The courtroom is on the third floor. Seating is limited. The ordinance prohibits school-age children from being in public places during public-school hours. The home schooling families...

Sulaimaniya – The authorities are maintaining a night curfew in several parts of Baghdad as fears mount of an imminent U.S. military attack. The curfew is imposed mainly after midnight until 5 a.m. It is being carried out by members of the dreaded Saddam Commandos and Special Security Forces. Residents told Iraq Press that patrols from these two forces, the backbone of Saddam's loyal troops, control main interjections in Baghdad and block entrances to major streets and sensitive areas. As the night falls in Baghdad, the patrols start searching vehicles land individuals and prevent movement of cars and people shortly...