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Cuban Detour to Texasnew

Cubans reroute to Mexico before heading north to the U.S.

Dallas Observer | Russell Cobb and Paul Knight | 01-14-2008 | Immigration

Tags: Immigration

Miami's Top Cop Breaks the Lawnew

Chief John Timoney refuses to testify about his free use of a Lexus SUV.

Miami New Times | Janine Zeitlin | 01-14-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Tex-Mex Horse Meatnew

Horse slaughtering has stopped in Texas, but the horses are still dying -- now in Mexico.

Dallas Observer | Megan Feldman | 01-14-2008 | Animal Issues

Tags: animal issues

New DNA Methods May Throw Doubt on More Convictionsnew

The reversal in Ted Bradford's case is the first in what Washington convicts hope, and prosecutors fear, may be a new wave of DNA-based appeals that can cloud a case, without clearly deciding it, years after the jury reached its verdict.

Seattle Weekly | Rick Anderson | 01-14-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

No Man's Landnew

If a homeless person is shot in the woods, do the police really care?

Orlando Weekly | Billy Manes | 01-14-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

The Man Who Is Creating a World Without Povertynew

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on microcredit, his Grameen Bank, and his call for the creation of "social businesses" where profits would go not to investors but for poverty reduction.

Santa Barbara Independent | Richard Appelbaum | 01-14-2008 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

Targeting Irannew

Former Chief U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about the Bush administration's agenda for Iran and why he thinks war may be inevitable.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 01-14-2008 | International

Tags: Iran, international

Some Sportswriters Are Jumping Print for the Webnew

Dana O'Neil is one of many big daily newspaper sportswriters who's recently made the jump to online reporting.

Philadelphia Weekly | Morgan A. Zalot | 01-14-2008 | Media

Tags: media

Forget HMOs ... Computers are Rationing Health Carenew

Though you may not realize it, you give away your medical records every time you see a doctor who must be paid under an insurance plan.

Metro Times | Edward Ericson Jr. | 01-14-2008 | Science

Tags: Health & Science

Planet Aid: Help to the Poor or Charitable Pandora’s Box?new

Some people are asking whether the national nonprofit is siphoning donations away from other, well-established local charities, or actually benefiting the poor people it claims to help.

Seven Days | Ken Picard | 01-14-2008 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

Squeezing the Squeegeersnew

The war against Halifax's street peddlers has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with criminalizing poverty.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Lezlie Lowe | 01-14-2008 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

The Case For Innocencenew

While researching his only non-fiction book to date, author John Grisham discovered the Innocence Project, and joined efforts to help the wrongfully convicted in prison.

Jackson Free Press | Ronni Mott | 01-11-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice