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	<description>A weekly news column by Robert Winston</description>
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		<title>KFC Agrees To Post Cancer Warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Attorney General&#8217;s office has reached an agreement with fast-food giant KFC Corporation. KFC was accused of failing to notify its customers that some of its food products, including french fries, contain acrylamide, a chemical identified by the state to be a cause of cancer. Under the agreement approved by the Superior Court in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoplifter Gets 25-To-Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 25-years-to-life prison sentence of a Los Angeles shoplifter suffering from paranoid schizophrenia has been upheld by a federal appeals court. In a 2-1 decision, a three-justice panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant habeas corpus relief to Cornel Ray Joshua, who had been convicted of shoplifting $62 of liquor from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Children Admit They Lied To Convict Her Of Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1994, Dolores Macias&#8217; children testified at her trial that she intentionally drowned their 4-year-old cousin in the family swimming pool. She was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. Thirteen years later, Macias&#8217; children have now recanted their testimony and told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jan Harris that the death actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injured Soldiers Recover Damages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has approved a $13 million settlement between two soldiers, Chief Warrant Officers Juan Beltran and Ron Carns, and the manufacturer of a defective helicopter gearbox which caused their aircraft to crash in 2003. Both men suffered major spinal injuries. Beltran is now a quadriplegic. The U.S. Army is immune from liability under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispute Settled Over Headstone Symbol In Military Cemetery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada Army National Guardsman Sergeant Patrick Stewart was killed in 2005 when his Chinook helicopter was shot down. His widow, Roberta, requested that his grave at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery be marked with the Wiccan symbol, which is a pentacle (five-pointed star) within a circle. Roberta and Patrick were both members of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skier Assumes Risk Of Collision Of Snowmaking Equipment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While eight-year-old Tatum Souza was skiing at the Squaw Valley ski resort, she lost her balance and collided with an aluminum snowmaking hydrant located on the ski run, injuring her mouth. The partially-padded hydrant protruded more than five feet above the snow surface. Tatum was an experienced skier and there was adequate space on either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Death Row Inmate Awarded $14 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal jury has awarded John Thompson, a former Louisiana death row inmate, $14 million in damages upon a finding that the prosecutor had violated his civil rights by hiding evidence which would have exonerated him. Thompson, now 44, was convicted of murder in 1984 in New Orleans. He was sentenced to death, but maintained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Assisted-Suicide Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed lower court decisions which had nullified an attempt by the Bush administration to prohibit physicians from prescribing certain drugs for use under Oregon&#8217;s &#8220;Death With Dignity Act&#8221;. Oregon&#8217;s law allows patients who have been found to be competent, acting voluntarily, and terminally ill by two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign Funding Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote in a case entitled Randall v. Sorrell, struck down as unconstitutional a Vermont law which limited contributions and spending in political campaigns. A majority of the justices agreed on the result, but were unable to harmonize on the analysis, with only four of them signing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six State Judges Disciplined In 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Commission on Judicial Performance has the power to discipline California judges. That discipline can be as slight as private admonishment and as serious as removal from the bench. Last year, the Commission exercised its power publicly in six cases for conduct ranging from fixing traffic tickets for friends and sports celebrities to the [...]]]></description>
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