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Birmingham, AL (USMS) – The U.S. Marshals Service is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the capture of an escaped inmate from Lauderdale County Jail and up to $5,000 for the correctional officer who authorities believe helped him escape April 29 from Lauderdale County. A warrant has been issued for Vicky White, 56, charging her with permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree in connection with capital murder suspect Casey White’s escape from jail. (The Whites are not related.) Authorities said Vicky White sold her home a month ago, and she was supposed to retire on Friday,...

SAME OL’ DEMOCRAT OBSTRUCTIONThe Economy Can Wait: Senate Democrats Put Politics Over Progress And Pursue Same Old Agenda For 108th Congress -- Obstruct, Oppose, Obfuscate. ___________________________________ “The deadlock [over the organizing resolution] demonstrates that the Democrats, even though they are a minority, are willing to employ a political scorched-earth strategy, threatening two years of gridlock in Congress before the 2004 elections.” (James Kuhnhenn, “Democrats Refuse To Surrender Power In The Senate,” Knight Ridder, January 15, 2003) An Organizing Resolution Is Typically Passed On The First Day Of A New Congress. “The Republicans took control of the Senate on Jan. 7....

Iraq blames sanctions for suffering 12/05/2002 Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Baghdad said Wednesday that Iraqis are suffering not from torture and other human-rights abuses at the hands of their own government, but from the effects of sanctions that it blames on Britain and the United States. The comments were Iraq's first reaction to a 23-page report presented Monday by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, saying that the Iraqi people live in fear and that Saddam Hussein's regime was in breach of its international obligations. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued another "of his statements that are full...

SLIPPED DISK No one is buying Terry McAuliffe's story that some innocent Democratic staffer happened upon a computer disk on a street corner that revealed the White House and the Republican Party's assessment of the 2002 elections. You'll recall, the DNC earlier this month announced that it had obtained through Republican bumbling a computer disk that contained a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Karl Rove, the White House and the RNC, and outlining their evaluation of the fall campaign. It was mildly embarrassing, if only because the presentation took a more cautious approach to certain elections: it didn't predict a sweep...