Tom DeLay of Texas, the former House majority leader, was indicted in September on money-laundering charges. A Northrop statement did not elaborate on the reasons for the decision, and a spokeswoman could not be reached.The lab’s contract expires in September but is likely to be extended for several months, with the new team expected to [...]

Repentance means complete forgiveness.”Moreover, Osman said that any possibility that an innocent man had been convicted would be enough to stop an execution under Islamic law.The Venerable Wimalasara, a Buddhist monk who follows the Theravada or southern school of Buddhism, said his tradition opposes the death penalty.”We don’t accept that penalty actually because we cannot [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska Less than 10 minutes after lifting off from the airport, the helicopter entered the frozen world suspended above Alaska’s capital.Snowcapped mountains rose on either side as the small team of scientists and students peered down at a jagged blue carpet of ice. Manny’s one of those guys who if he didn’t [...]

Good books, or books that moved us, or books we just really liked and that, once adapted for the big screen, had their best features stretched and dulled, their value nullified, like a coin run over on the railroad tracks.But what about movies that shouldn’t have been made into books — not cheap adaptations but [...]

Zelizer, a political historian and campaign analyst at Boston University. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.That court is considered conservative and generally supportive of law enforcement in criminal cases.Moussaoui pleaded guilty last year to capital murder for his role in the Sept 11 conspiracy. “I think the technology is out there.” He notes: [...]

They both belonged to a Long Beach marching band, and the bandleader “used to scream all the time, ‘Hattoy, shut up!’ ” Sappell recalled. Such waivers would be granted “based on clear, convincing evidence of a minor’s maturity or best interests.”Yeah, right, as Mantha likes to say. forces in Iraq.Don’t believe for a minute that [...]

With a warning to “stick close together to avoid activating security,” we shuffled from the lobby and into a tiny side corridor.Up a short flight of stairs, we arrived in what’s known as the garden lobby. They want the Supreme Court to declare them “unconstitutionally excessive” if they are nine times greater than the compensatory [...]

recently warned its members about the risks of making such loans, saying that although it is quick and easy to advance cash to clients, collecting on loans in default is another matter. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.At a news conference, the Rev William G Sinkford, Unitarian Universalist Assn. [...]

Marsh thought he had died years before but asked the traveler to take off his right shoe and sock, Lyman wrote. Steve Soto kept a clock radio on the far side of his Valencia bedroom for months.That way, at 5:45 a.m., when the sweet but sudden sounds of classical music erupted, the teenager had to [...]

In June it was 41%-50%; in March 49%-38%.* Of the voters who disapprove of his job performance, 54% say they’re “disappointed” in how Schwarzenegger turned out. Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa announced Wednesday that billionaire Eli Broad’s foundation has donated $3.6 million to the LA’s BEST after-school program.With the $2 million that Villaraigosa expects to raise for [...]