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You've heard of Truth in Advertising, right?

Did you know that there's no truth-in-advertising law governing federal political candidates? Candidates have a legal right to lie to voters about almost anything they want---and usually do. That's why most of those campaign promises never see fruition.

MINNEAPOLIS---One of the most outspoken advocates of the right to die movement and of physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. today has died. Dr. Ronald E. Cranford, a neurologist and medical ethicist who served for years as the assistant chief of neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn., died Wednesday in Minneapolis.

PINELLAS COUNTY, FLA---Prosecutorial misconduct by the Pinellas County state attorney's office of Bernie McCabe has resulted in the reversal of a conviction for battery of a law enforcement officer.

WASHINGTON-- Former Republican fundraiser Thomas W. Noe has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make illegal campaign contributions, causing a false statement to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and knowingly and willfully making $45,400 in illegal campaign contributions to President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

TALLAHASSEE---The military-style boot camps designed to discipline wayward juveniles in Florida have become history in the wake of the death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old who died in January by suffocation at the hands of guards at a Bay County boot camp.

LAKE COUNTY, FLA---The parents of an inmate at the Lake County Jail have been charged in a bizarre attempt to allegedly hire a hit man to kill their three grandchildren, daughter-in-law and the family's pet dog.

SUFFOLK COUNTY---A Riverhead dentist is facing charges of insurance fraud and other charges.

Dr. David A. Brescia of 91 Sandpiper Lane, whose practice was in Wading River, has been on a 14-count grand jury indictment before Suffolk County Court Judge C. Randall Hinrichs.

CITRUS COUNTY, FLA---Two disabled teenage boys are safe and unharmed and their mother behind bars, charged with two counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to kill them.

WASHINGTON--- The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged publisher Tribune Company with reporting falsified circulation figures from at least January 2002 to March 2004 for two of its newspapers in New York, Newsday and the Spanish-language Hoy. The Commission issued an order finding that Tribune failed to uncover Newsday and Hoy's inflated circulation figures because it lacked sufficient internal controls to detect the schemes at those papers.

MANHATTAN---A former investment banker at Brean Murray & Co., a New York investment bank, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin in Manhattan to 37 months in prison for stealing approximately $990,000 from clients of Brean Murray.

MANHATTAN---A teacher at a private elementary school has been indicted for raping two former male students. One of the victims was 13 years old when the abuse started, the other victim was 12 years old, according to prosecutors.

ALBANY---The state has been awarded more than $2 million in penalties and cleanup costs for three illegal tire and solid waste dumps in Rensselaer County. A state court judge froze a bank account of one of the dump operators to secure payment of the cleanup costs.

ALBANY---Fines totaling $266,600 have been levied by the New York State Insurance Department against 21 health insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for violations of New York's Prompt Pay Law. The violations and subsequent fines stemmed from complaint files that were closed by the Insurance Department between Oct.1, 2005 and March 31.

FORT DRUM--Under pressure from a New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the U.S. Army has granted Conscientious Objector status and honorable discharge to a soldier whom the Army previously had tried to deploy while his CO application was still pending.

ALBANY---Inadequate state aid to public schools is a key cause of low graduation rates statewide and is driving up local property taxes according to a new report by the Alliance for Quality Education and the Public Policy Education Fund.

ARLINGTON, VA---Memorial Day has passed and summer camps nationwide will soon fill with kids. At camps like "Summer's Best Two Weeks" in Western Pennsylvania, youngsters will be challenged to grow and mature and, in the process, they'll create memories to last a lifetime.

DENVER, CO---Term limits for judges?

Citizens in Colorado may have a chance to limit rein in judicial independence and take back the courts.

MANHATTAN---Two issues, each offering scores of horrific accounts of women who are victims of violence, sexual exploitation, greed and control, are the focus of a New York State Bar Association program featuring three prominent members of the state Assembly as speakers.

NEW YORK - Officials of the state court system are offering help to couples seeking uncontested divorces.

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union criticized a ruling by the Supreme Court Tuesday that First Amendment protections do not apply to public employees who report government misconduct. The ACLU said the ruling seriously undermines the rights of whistleblowers who risk their careers to protect the public interest.

CORAL SPRINGS, FLA---A simple walk with his dogs on Memorial Day became a horrifying experience for a Coral Springs resident and a near-death ordeal for his puppy.

MIAMI---Anchor Seafood, Inc., a Miami based seafood company, and two individuals were sentenced Tuesday in Miami Federal District Court in connection with a conspiracy that imported more than 16,500 pounds of undersized spiny lobster from Jamaica to the United States.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO----Can you be arrested and jailed for stealing your own corporate vehicle?

Can a judge impose a probation condition that you can't enter a courthouse, a public building, for the purpose of using the public law library?

Can you be threatened by police with physical harm, pursued and arrested on the basis of an invalid warrant?

Can police stop, search and arrest you without probable cause?

The constitutional issues continue to abound in northern Ohio involving disbarred attorney and judicial whistleblower Elsebeth Baumgartner, already embroiled in a First Amendment case for being criminally charged for criticizing and allegedly intimidating a judge.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

That includes Michael Schiavo.

Schiavo uses that quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the opening pages of his recently released book, Terri: The Truth.

It's anything but the truth.

Patricia Fields Anderson, one of the attorneys who represented the Schindler family in their battle to try and save the life of their brain disabled daughter, said about Michael Schiavo, "It's hard to know what to believe with him because he says whatever the occasion demands or what is in his financial interests".

Remember the Manhattan Institute report on high school graduation rates.http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm#10 Some questioned the stats for minority graduation rates in New York state, attributed to the Manhattan Institute report http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm#10. See Table 1 to the report and check out tables [table 2] [table 3] [table 4] [table 5] as well.

You not only have the facts and state the facts in the Terri Schiavo case, but you have a very good way of threading the facts together. All of what you say seems to be such basic common sense. It's a shame we live in such a topsy-turvy world where criminals like Michael Schiavo are allowed to run rampant. Apparently that characteristic of feeling entitled to act above the law runs in the Schiavo family, judging from Brian Schiavo's (treasurer) alleged lack of providing financial information about TerriPAC.

The stench of Florida's criminal justice system is permeating the entire country.

Unfortunately the cover-ups and injustices aren't confined solely to Florida.

Part of the problem in Florida is in the state attorney's offices and county medical examiners---and it may extend all the way to Tallahassee and the Office of Gov. Jeb Bush.

The old story of one lies, the other swears to it. The nucleus of the stench appears to be in Pinellas County.

NEW YORK--- Prosecutors said that a Roman Catholic priest maintained a high-style of living, driving a tan Lexus, maintaining memberships in exclusive golf clubs, and owning condos in Florida and New Jersey.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide has been decades in slowly, incrementally creeping into our society, into the medical field and medical industry, into the legal field, into government, and even into the clergy. Euthanasia and assisted suicide has evolved and is practiced within the United States, under the radar of an unsuspecting public, and under terminology such as futile care, terminal sedation, and hastening death, whether people acknowledge it, are aware, or not.

LINCOLN, NEB---Vermont District Court Judge Edward Cashman set off a firestorm of controversy in January when he imposed the minimum 60-day sentence for a child molester who admitted sexually abusing a six-year-old-girl over four years.

NEW YORK---Your tax dollars at work. The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) has awarded a $420,000 grant to a farm that force-feeds ducks to expand their livers a startling 10 times the normal size---an inhumane practice used to mass produce foie grass, according to State Sen. Liz Krueger.

Do you remember the television quiz shows of the Fifties?

On Tuesday nights, everything came to a halt while America watched The $64,000 Question.

Those game shows quickly became the Quiz Show Scandals, the producers and sponsors tampered with the results, rigging the winners----kind of like the Terri Schiavo case and the January, 2000 trial in Pinellas County probate court with Judge George Greer presiding.

SUFFOLK COUNTY---A Suffolk County jury has convicted former county legislator Wayne Prospect of bribe receiving and conspiracy, and found him not guilty of coercion and bribery charges, in a verdict returned at Friday morning in Suffolk County court in Riverhead.

MIAMI---A father and son have been indicted in connection with an alleged Medicare kickback scheme involving a Hialeah physical and occupational therapy clinic.

ALBANY---State Sen. Kiz Krueger has joined her Senate Democratic colleagues in calling on the Republican-controlled New York State Senate to enact thoughtful and thorough legislation to halt the abuse and fraud occurring within New York's Medicaid system-financial abuse that may be costing New York taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

ALBANY---Nearly three-quarters of New York residents said state government is doing a fair or poor job of dealing with the issues they consider most important, according to a poll commissioned by New York Matters and conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion from March 28 through April 7.

PINELLAS COUNTY--A Sixth Circuit Court Judge has been removed from the bench by the Florida Supreme Court for flagrant misrepresentations to the voting public and serious campaign financial misconduct.

CONCORD, NH---With a vote of 168-165, a potentially dangerous bill that would give physicians and nurses authority to autonomously determine whether a person lives or dies, the New Hampshire House voted Wednesday to pass a bill that presumptively updates the state's laws on advanced directives.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON---A retired DPW worker and volunteer firefighter has been charged with attempted dissemination of indecent materials to a minor in the first degree, a felony.

WILTON---Teena Willard of Wilton was honored with an "Achievers' Award" at the 26th Annual Disabilities Awareness Day Awards Ceremony this week in Albany. The event recognizes an individual's ability to overcome personal, physical challenges and honors their accomplishments on behalf of themselves and their community.

LAKE GEORGE---In the wake of the Ethan Allen boating disaster on Lake George last fall, the state Assembly has passed legislation which will require owners of all commercial passenger boats licensed in New York to carry an appropriate level of marine liability insurance.

TROY---The former PTA president at the Turnpike Elementary School in Lansingburgh will be spending 30 days in the Rensselaer County jail after pleading guilty to stealing monies that were intended for special events for the school's children.

When more than 200 students stood up to recite the Lord's Prayer at their high school graduation last week in Russell Springs, Ky., they were rewarded with a standing ovation from the overflowing crowd of family and friends.

MINEOLA---An extensive in-service training program will be offered to the more than 30 Nassau County skilled-nursing facilities caring for some of the county's most vulnerable citizens.

WASHINGTON---"There is a proper public policy role for the federal government against assisted suicide, such as prohibiting federally controlled substances from being used to intentionally end life", lawyer, author and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith told the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights at a hearing Thursday on "The Consequences of Legalized Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.

ALBANY---Thirteen nursing homes across New York State have been approved to rightsize and reconfigure their operations to expand into the growing areas of home health care, adult day care and assisted living. In order to transition into expanding these services, the rightsizing nursing home projects approved will decertify a total of 259 unused beds and allow for the conversion of 572 existing beds into other long-term care services.

ALBANY---It would seem to be common sense that it should be illegal for an employer to tape their employees while they're changing their clothes but the existing laws were vague, making such acts often difficult to prosecute.

TALLAHASSEE--The Florida Bar, the state's guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, has announced that the Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders reprimanded two, suspended two, and disbarred four attorneys.

ALBANY---Home computer has a new meaning for one state agency head. Investigators from the state Inspector General's office say that the director of the state Office for Small Cities helped himself to an agency computer and at least two hard drives from the state agency and used them for his personal use.

NEW YORK---The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has written to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein complaining about the over-policing of the schools and its adverse impact upon the educational environment within schools. The NYCLU letter complains about overreaching by some school safety agents assigned to schools and the failure of the City to develop rules limiting the authority of these police officers in the schools. The NYCLU letter urges that, in the absence of imminent threats to public safety, school principals must retain the authority to decide how school safety agents should conduct themselves within the schools.

Not only did Michael Schiavo collect $10,000 from his wife's life insurance policy and stash the proceeds in a safe deposit box in First Union Bank, but from the time of her sudden collapse in 1990 until approximately the middle of 1992 when the payments stopped, he lived off her paycheck from Prudential Insurance Company, according to his own sworn testimony.

Now, in his book, "Terri: The Truth", he's claiming that from the time of his wife's collapse until he allegedly returned to work three or four months later, he had continued to receive his paychecks from Agostino's where he was employed.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA---Following reports that the drug Zolpidem can temporarily revive people in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) to the point where they are able to speak, The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation for Health Care Ethics is calling for a moratorium of all potential ordinary care removal for persons diagnosed in a PVS condition.

ALBANY---Twenty-six regional health care networks across the state have been provided $52.9 million in grant awards as part of New York's Health Information Technology (HIT) initiative. These projects are designed to help expand the use of technology in New York's health care system and improve the quality of care for patients.

MIAMI---A disbarred attorney has entered a not guilty plea to a federal indictment charging him with 41 counts of mail fraud in connection with his alleged misappropriation of $13.5 million of settlement monies from clients' trust accounts.

NEW YORK -- Responding to reports that phone companies are turning over private details about Americans' telephone calls to the National Security Agency, the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a nationwide initiative to end illegal government spying.

It appears that Michigan calls murder -- murder while Florida calls it things such as judicial independence, right to die, right to privacy, a family matter, none of the president nor governor nor law maker's business, and an award-getting endeavor.

Myra Christopher's activism in support of assisted suicide and euthanasia via legislative and public policy change, has been instrumental in many policy changes toward legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia in the U.S. The attainment of legalization has been through educational programs directed toward healthcare givers and healthcare systems, government and legislative policy, and the clergy, all which leads to changes in public views. Myra has spent more than 20 years to achieve that goal through her collaboration to the Last Acts and other groups favoring euthanasia.

MINEOLA---Two Nassau County police officers have been charged with third degree grand larceny, a felony, in connection with the theft of unearned paid leave.

In 2003, when I was working as a volunteer media coordinator for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, I was contacted by a woman from Houston, Texas who told me she believed the prescription drug Ambien could help Terri to improve.

According to her, her adult daughter had been previously diagnosed as being in a chronic persistent vegetative state years earlier. A sympathetic physician prescribed Ambien and, after a very short period of time, the daughter began to show gradual but continuous improvements.

The Baumgartner free speech case has been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

No, not the Elsebeth Baumgartner case of Oak Harbor, Ohio.

The case of the United States against Carl Wilhelm Baumgartner.

Not only are the last names the same, but so is the core issue---government retaliation for the exercise of free speech and expression of opinion.

OAK HARBOR, OHIO---A judge may not hold in contempt one who ventures to publish anything that tends to make him unpopular or to belittle him.

So ruled the U.S. Supreme Court nearly 60 years ago, establishing the supreme law of the land.

In what appears to be an ongoing attempt to taint a potential jury pool and wrongly use the criminal justice system and his public office to malign and attempt to discredit a critic who has levied charges of public corruption against him, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Daniel Kasaris and Ottawa County prosecutor Mark Mulligan repeatedly attempt to ridicule and prejudice their critic, nemesis and Mulligan's past opponent for prosecutor, former attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner.

If you do not want life-sustaining treatment should you become permanently unconscious, New Hampshire law already provides a way for you to refuse it. It's called a living will. If you want someone else to make those decisions for you, state law already provides for that, too. It's called "durable power of attorney for health care." So why does New Hampshire need a long and complicated new law to address these issues?

LONDON,---ReGen Therapeutics Plc is developing an important new use for zolpidem, a long-established and safe treatment for insomnia.

The company has announced the publication of an article in volume 21 pages 23 - 28 of the journal Neurorehabilitation (Clauss, R P and Nel, W H) showing that the 'arousal' effect of zolpidem in three subjects in a permanent vegetative state resulting from brain damage is maintained after daily treatment over a period of up to six years. The publication states that the new use was first seen in a 30-year old man who was mute, incontinent and in permanent spasm after a severe traffic accident three years earlier. When given zolpidem for restlessness one night he was able to communicate verbally, spasms relaxed and he recognized people around him for the first time since the accident. The effect lasted while zolpidem remained in the body and has been repeated with gradually improving effect for six years since the first dose.

Both the final 2006-2007 State budget and the process that produced it are severely flawed, creating uncertainty and potentially serious problems for the State and the local governments, school districts, non-profit organizations and people who rely on it, according to a report issued Tuesday by State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi. The process began badly with a $110.6 billion Executive Budget that would have increased spending more than two times faster than revenues over three years, continued to rely on debt and non-recurring resources or "one-shots," and created a $7.8 billion two-year gap in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

MANHATTAN---At the same time that the U.S. Attorney's office for Southern District of New York filed a complaint in U.S. District Court that Harlem Hospital Center defrauded the government by doubebilling the Medicare program, the hospital has agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve the civil charges.

NEW YORK---A Canadian man has been charged in connection with what federal prosecutors have termed to be a massive insurance fraud scheme.

QUEENS---A New York City Department of Education employee has been sentenced to four months of weekends in jail for unlawfully representing himself as a licensed architect and fraudulently submitting official documents bearing a bogus architect's stamp and his signature to the City's Building Department.

Cleveland, OH-- Constitutional law professor, Stephen Safranek is arguing in the 8th district court of appeals that forcing routine no-fault divorce on a Christian wife and children is unconstitutional.

NEW YORK----The federal government has settled a civil rights lawsuit brought against the City of New York, alleging that the city violated the federal civil rights laws against employment discrimination by harassing women in the city's welfare-to-work program. A consent decree incorporating the terms of the settlement was approved today by United States District Judge Richard Casey.

NEW YORK---An international broker of property and casualty insurance who also served as the president and principal owner of Eton Management Corporation, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $4.2 million in restitution for fraud he perpetrated against Clarendon America Insurance Company.

ALBANY---The state has announced agreements with two leading title insurance companies to resolve investigations related to illegal rebates and referral fees.

ROTTERDAM---A man who allegedly got tired of waiting for police to book his friend on a drunk driving charge, ended up spending more time in the police station then planned.

ROTTERDAM---A Rotterdam man has been charged with four misdemeanors after his ex-wife says that he used the internet to harass her and discredit her.

QUEENS----A traffic enforcement agent assigned to summons enforcement duty in Queens has been charged with writing dozens of fraudulent parking tickets in one day while, in some instances, sitting in her City vehicle which was parked at a handicapped parking space in the rear of a Long Island City municipal lot.

In 2003, when I was working as a volunteer media coordinator for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, I was contacted by a woman from Houston, Texas who told me she believed the prescription drug Ambien could help Terri to improve.

According to her, her adult daughter had been previously diagnosed as being in a chronic persistent vegetative state years earlier. A sympathetic physician prescribed Ambien and, after a very short period of time, the daughter began to show gradual but continuous improvements.

Since January of 2005, the New Hampshire legislature has been ping-ponging a bill to address end-of-life care and advanced directives for healthcare.

The bill's text seems to start out innocently enough:

"The state of New Hampshire recognizes that a person has a right, founded in the autonomy and sanctity of the person, to control the decisions relating to the rendering of his or her own medical care. In order that the rights of persons may be respected even after such persons lack the capacity to make health care decisions for themselves, and to encourage communication between patients and their attending physicians or ARNPs, the general court declares that the laws of this state shall recognize the right of a competent person to make a written directive"[...]

This particular article about the suicide in Queensbury, as ruled by Sheriff Larry Cleveland, and questioned by his daughter, is a good example why the people of Warren County need to become proactive and start a recall or at least vote him out of office next year.

ALBANY-Sen. Joseph Bruno finally got off the dime in making state government more accountable. Bruno announced Monday that the Legislature has reached agreement with the New York Newspaper Publishers Association on legislation that would help stop government stonewalling of requests made under the state's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).

ALBANY---Violent incidents in New York State high schools have not been accurately reported to the State Education Department (SED) and SED has not done enough to address misreporting problems or to effectively identify schools with serious violence problems, according to an audit released by Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.

ALBANY---New York motorists will get some relief at the gas pump beginning June 1 as Gov. George E. Pataki has signed legislation into law that will cap the state tax once it goes over $2 a gallon, making New York State the first state in the nation to take action to lower taxes to provide motorist relief.

The New York Post story http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/68676.htm reveals NY State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver probably receives a seven figure annual salary from a NYC Law firm that benefits from his pro-trial lawyer stance on legislation Speaker Silver blocks from a floor vote in the State Assembly, at the expense of the rest of New York state.

ALBANY---Legislation was unveiled Monday that would establish a new independent State Canal Corporation and Erie Canal Greenway that will revitalize and transform the Canal System into a world-class recreational destination. The legislation would also make possible statewide reductions in Thruway commuter tolls by $110 million over the next six years.

NEWTOWN, CT-- Citing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that blocks unwarranted lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles W. Stoll ruled Monday from the bench ordering complete dismissal of all causes of action against defendants Beretta, Smith & Wesson, Colt and Turners Outdoor Sports, a California firearms dealer, in a case involving the gang murder of a Burbank police officer.

LONG BEACH, CA---The owner and operator of Media Solutions, a now-defunct computer hardware and software store in the City of Industry, has been convicted of seven federal criminal charges for trafficking in counterfeit Symantec and Quicken computer software.

OLDSMAR, FLA---A small business owner in the Tampa Bay area has learned that it's not wise to anger an attorney.

Tampa attorney William Ebsary didn't just get mad about the unsolicited faxes he was getting from the Twins Luncheon restaurant, he got even.

BOCA RATON, FLA---A former medical doctor will be spending the next 12 1/2 years in prison for illegally issuing prescriptions for the powerful pain killer Oxycontin.

She wasn't Lucy Ricardo and she didn't have red hair.

Nevertheless her brother-in-law says "she can be somewhat ditzy".

As a result of testimony by this "somewhat ditzy" individual, accepted as clear and convincing evidence, an innocent disabled Florida woman was sentenced to die and a precedent for forced death was set in the United States.

Where's Joan Schiavo now?

Why hasn't Joan Schiavo ever been interviewed by police or mainstream media about her testimony and her knowledge of the Terri Schiavo case?

CHESTERTOWN---An Albany-area woman who was supposed to begin a job Monday with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security won't be punching in.

She's lodged in the Warren County Jail on charges of conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance for her alleged role in the theft of prescription painkiller drugs from the Brooks Pharmacy in Chestertown.

The brainwashing in the Terri Schindler Schiavo case continues, fueled by Floridian lawyers and jurists who are consciously compelled to try to justify to themselves and others the judicial murder of an innocent handicapped woman.

For more than five years the legal and judicial sector has been trying to sell the public a verdict of justifiable homicide based solely on the self-serving hearsay testimony of a domineering, jealous husband and his family members, aided and abetted by a egomaniacal judge with a death cult agenda. They have tried to accomplish this with reciprocating pats on the back and a spate of hollow awards accompanied by taking their show on the road to bioethics symposiums and conferences up and down the Eastern seaboard. Apparently they think that if they tell the same lie enough times it will become the truth.

LANSING, MICH---Mayer Morganroth, the attorney representing Dr. Jack Kevorkian, filed application with the Michigan Board of Parole and Governor Jennifer M. Granholm Friday seeking the pardon, parole or commutation of Dr. Kevorkian to time served.

WALDRON, ARK---An Arkansas mayor is facing two felony counts of abusing the public trust and four misdemeanor counts of patronizing a prostitute after he allegedly solicited sex from women as payment for their delinquent water bills.

WASHINGTON---Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has filed a "motion to compel" with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to force the U. S. Secret Service to comply with a court order to provide Judicial Watch with all White House visitor logs detailing the entries and exits of admitted felon and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

ROCHESTER---A New Jersey tissue bank and a funeral home near Rochester are being sued for allegedly illegally harvesting body parts.

NEW YORK--- "Internet Filters: A Public Policy Report," a detailed survey of tests and studies documenting how the widespread use of filters limits the free exchange of ideas necessary in a healthy democracy, has been released by the Brennan Center for Justice. The report shows that filters are an unreliable and inefficient means of preventing children from viewing material that their parents find offensive. Some filters censor political and other information, casting a net far wider than is necessary for any legitimate goal.

MIAMI---A new Florida law that imposes crippling fines on voter registration groups is being challenged in a lawsuit filed in federal court. The plaintiffs, civic organizations and voting rights groups that have been working in Florida through many election cycles without government interference, say that the law has shut down or dramatically curtailed their efforts to help eligible voters get on the rolls.

MIAMI---The federal government has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed against Abbott Laboratories Inc. (Abbott), alleging that the company violated the False Claims Act. In its complaint, the government alleges that Abbott, a pharmaceutical manufacturer that sells brand and generic drugs that are reimbursed by the Medicare and Medicaid programs, engaged in a scheme to report fraudulent and inflated prices for several pharmaceutical products, knowing that federal healthcare programs established reimbursement rates based on those reported prices.

QUEENSBURY---The skeletal remains of a man founding hanging in a tree have been identified by a forensic pathologist as Izell "Izzy" Parrott, who had been missing since last February.

Warren County Sheriff Larry J. Cleveland issued a statement that said the cause of death has been ruled a suicide and that the investigation into the man's death was closed.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA---Mr. Kibbles is home, no thanks to a Fort Lauderdale firefighter and his wife.

NEW YORK---An officer with the New York Police Department and two other individuals have been charged with allegedly participating in a conspiracy to steal cocaine from drug stash houses in Manhattan and to share the proceeds of those robberies.

CANTON---A Queensbury man has been charged with third degree burglary and criminal mischief after be allegedly broke into a St. Lawrence County funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin.

SYRACUSE---A teacher's aide at a Syracuse junior high school has been charged with smoking marijuana with a 16-year-old female student on two occasions.

ROCHESTER---Despite objections from prosecutors, a federal magistrate judge has granted the request of the former Town of Greece assessor Charles A. Schwab and his wife, Karen, to access $40,000 of his bail to pay for their living expenses while he awaits trial on federal bribery charges.

We tell our children how to be safe from stranger abuse and that they can come to us for help if someone is touching them in any way that makes them feel uncomfortable. Many mothers like myself, had gone through the proper steps when we and/or our children were being abused by a family member. We were assured that we would be protected and we trusted the judges to do what is legal, moral and ethical. How many of us have been betrayed as this young girl was? How many of our children were then placed in the sole custody of the very person who hurt and abused them?

NEW YORK-The regional director of the state Division of Human Rights has been fired after being accused of sexual harassment and allegedly misusing state resources for his state Senate campaign.

ALBANY---There are pervasive operational problems and substantial money missing in justice courts around the state, the state comptroller says, and he has called upon the state Legislature to reform the local justice court system.

Have you ever been electronically frisked? Or digitally probed?

It's hard to tell, of course, since you don't feel a thing.

That's because government agents who sift through the megabytes of data that ordinary citizens spin off in their daily routines do their work secretly, silently and from far away.

OCALA---A Florida doctor has been sentenced to four years in prison for possession of child pornography.

NEW YORK---The New York-based law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman and two of its name partners were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for allegedly participating in a scheme in which several individuals were paid millions of dollars in secret kickbacks in exchange for serving as named plaintiffs in more than 150 class-action and shareholder derivative-action lawsuits. The indictment alleges that the firm received well over $200 million in attorneys' fees from these lawsuits over the past 20 years.

LOS ANGELES--- A former official with the Mojave Water Agency (MWA) has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges for orchestrating a scheme that funneled contracts to an associate's surveying firm and brought the official more than $1 million in revenues.

HUNTINGTON, LI---The former sanitation supervisor for the Town of Huntington pleaded guilty Thursday in Suffolk County court to charges of second degree bribe receiving and forgery i