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One thing I have learned about New Hampshire voter registration process is that it is more difficult to rent a DVD than it is to register to vote. This speaks very little for the integrity of the process. Our Live free or Die motto and our reputation for being the first primary in the nation requires that we have substance rather than just rhetoric. It should mean something to win the New Hampshire primary. If we want continued integrity in our elections, we must ensure there is one vote for each person who is lawfully registered to vote. Same-day registration does not allow the time for checking voters information and also encourages an environment where people who may not be lawful residents use the Election Day confusion to conceal the fact. I call upon our local state representatives to put aside partisan politics and finally do something about restoring confidence in the process and establish sensible registration laws where all, Democrats, Republicans and Independents can feel they were not disenfranchised by an otherwise porous system.
Gun photos get 5 expelled from Belleville High
BELLEVILLE, Mich. - Five Belleville High School students have been expelled after photos of them with what appeared to be guns, drugs and piles of cash appeared on MySpace.com. The Ann Arbor News says two other students got eight- to 10-day suspensions. Van Buren Public Schools Superintendent Pete Lazaroff says the photos shown on the social networking Web site were taken after a limo picked the students up from a school dance. He says he thinks the students had weapons at the homecoming dance. .
Theft Ring Stole Up To $100 Million From Fla. Stores With 'Special ...
POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- About 20 people were arrested in connection with what may be Florida's largest theft ring blamed for stealing up to $100 million worth of products from the state's most popular stores, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. IMAGES: Mug Shots Of 18 Arrested Investigators said the thieves or "boosters" used specially designed bags and purses to steal the millions of dollars worth of products. .
Rapist denied early release for 1991 crime
Prior to the Chaska assault, Paulson had been convicted of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and one count of first-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct. At the time, he was suspected in at least six other rapes, and according to the article, testimony alleged he admitted to assaulting between 10 and 15 women. For the earlier charges, Paulson was sentenced to over 10 years, most of which he served in prison. Ultimately he entered a residential treatment program for sex offenders in Minnetonka. Assault On the evening March 17, 1991, he walked away from the program, following railroad tracks to Chaska. According to court testimony, he roamed a residential area seeking a victim. Then, at 6:38 a.m., March 18, Paulson waited for a Chaska woman's husband to leave work, and then attacked the 22-year-old in her garage as she prepared to get into her automobile, the Herald article reported.
'Lions' struggles against Euro critics
Paramount releases Sean Penns youth rebellion pic Into the Wild on 84 and it should do solid biz at upmarket sites thanks to strong reviews. The best film the writer-director has ever made, declared Daily Telegraph reviewer Sukhdev Sandhu. Working against it is fact that topliner Emile Hirsch in unknown to Brit auds. With a public holiday in Madrid Friday, Fox put out Lions for Lambs Thursday, building to a large 300-print nationwide run from Friday. In its favor in Spain, its being positioned as a star-vehicle the names Redford, Streep and Cruise blare out from billboard. Issues merely get second-billing in a series of log-line questions, such as Whom would you fight for? Its a big print run, but the stars still shine in Spain. So it could make some early money, said one exhibitor.
Seneca's 1963 Mr. Basketball one of state's best ever
Redd's high school coach, Bob Mulcahy, said yesterday: "People ask me who are the best three players that I ever had a part in coaching. No. 1 is Mike Redd, No. 2 is Westley Unseld and No. 3 is Jo Jo White, when I was at Kansas (as an assistant coach). "(Redd) was a 6-2 Oscar Robertson." Redd's death came on a day of immense grief for his family. Less than eight hours earlier, Redd's 85-year-old mother, Susie Cairo Logan, died in San Jose, Calif., where she had lived for 38 years. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer the day before Thanksgiving and had surgery two days later. Mike Redd, who had been hospitalized about a month, didn't know of her death. And neither mother nor son knew the gravity of the other's illness. "We didn't have the heart to tell him -- or her -- about each other," Mikela Redd said.
How Rihanna and M.I.A. delivered the most profound political ...
But despite her quasi-reinvented persona (new haircut!) and semi-scandalous tabloid misadventures, she was mostly a stunning conduit for the song's songwriting/production team. The distinctive melodies that emergent Atlanta songwriter Terius "The-Dream" Nash and producer Christopher "Tricky" Stewart jammed out this year will be emblematic of an era, in the same way Ginuwine's "Pony" handed Timba-land the late '90s and ODB's "Got Your Money" predicted the Neptunes' early-'00s dominance. Dream and Tricky's '07 collabos, including J. Holiday's "Bed" and Dream's own effervescent "Shawty Is Da Sh*!," were strung indelibly together by the signature "Umbrella" stamp, that hiccupping eh, eh, eh vocal phrase, a device Dream kept on his Prince-y fantasia of a solo record, Love/Hate. Before Good Girl Gone Bad, her third, Rihanna was a beautiful blank slatewhatever personality she brought on her own wasn't exactly dazzling us into her orbit.
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