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U.S. is considering reduced sentence for Enron's Skilling
2013-04-04 19:22:11| Energy - Topix.net
Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, who is serving a 24-year sentence over the company's spectacular collapse, may get a chance to leave prison early.
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State Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Killer of Two Orinda Women
2013-02-08 09:02:06| IT Services - Topix.net
Corey Williams, 36, was sentenced to death in Contra Costa County Superior Court in 2000 for the first-degree murders of restaurant owner Maria Corrieo, 74, and her daughter, Gina Roberts, 53.
Judge reduces possible sentence for Army GI accused of sending secret information to WikiLeaks
2013-01-09 00:42:30| Biotech - Topix.net
Testimony is set to begin in a federal lawsuit brought by four sisters who believe their breast cancer was caused by a drug their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s.
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How one small sentence kicked up a storm of climate controversy
2013-01-06 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Charles Darwin wrote, "Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die," do you think he thought to himself, Dude, I`m about to piss a bunch of people off? Or when Copernicus and Galileo forwarded the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around, do you think they were trying to ruffle Vatican feathers? Well, OK, maybe these guys saw trouble brewing. But another, contemporary scientist didn`t. In the mid-1990s, Benjamin Santer authored a chapter in...
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Illegal file-sharer gets hit with 5-year prison sentence
2013-01-04 05:00:42| CNET News.com
A U.S. judge gives the leader of the IMAGiNE file-sharing group a record prison term for camcording movies in the theater and distributing them on the Web. [Read more]
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