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Even as it girds for large cuts in state funding, the City Colleges of Chicago has released its biggest budget yet, more than $500 million to fund the district for the next year.

Editorial - Unparalleled and Denied - NYTimes.com : "In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that might prove ...

In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence.

A Supreme Court decision increases the risk that the wrongly convicted could be kept behind bars.

Better for you to die wrongfully in a vote-wealthy state-sanctioned murder than obtain true due process.

Tom Feddor has the lowest vehicle license plate number in Illinois on his Range Rover.

Tribune transportation columnist John Hilkevitch wrote a fascinating piece last week about how a glitch resulted in South Loop real estate agent Tom Feddor getting repeatedly ticketed for parking violations he didn't commit.

Be careful when you're traveling in rural areas today...what wasn't underwater last night might be underwater today.

He was determined to understand their impact on crops and to explore new control techniques to benefit farmers.

Rainboo said in the KTVA Anchorage Forum:

I keep forgetting how perfect our court system is, how a innocent man can be found guilty. So, presumed innocent until proven guilty - once found guilty you lose your rights for a DNA test? No DNA test should convict either then. DNA testing is NOT a perfect science, it's our excuse to convict without question but not excuse if we've made a mistake?

Thursday the United States Supreme Court ruled inmates don't have a right to try and prove their innocence through DNA testing after being found guilty.

Joel Pineiro pitched until he could pitch no more, writhing on the ground in front of the pitcher's mound, cramping uncontrollably.

Yadier Molina and Colby Rasmus supplied six of the St. Louis Cardinals' eight hits Wednesday night, helping edge the Detriot Tigers 4-3. The three-game home stand -- and series -- with the Tigers is already won for the Cards, now 2-0, and who hope to sweep Thursday night at Busch Stadium.

THE BURLY narcotics officer yanked down the young woman's underwear as they stood in the doorway of her second-floor Frankford apartment, she said.

This photo of Prattville resi dent Kelli Harris was taken shortly after a June 8, 2006, incident during which, court documents show, then-Prattville police officer Ron Davis hit her several times while trying to take her into custody.

Chris Duncan has hit better on the road than at home, but Tuesday night at Busch Stadium, he launched a bomb into the left center field bleachers in an at-bat that followed a blast by Albert Pujols that narrowly missed thumping into Bic Mac Land.

A southern Missouri prosecutor has resigned after the attorney general's office sought to remove her.Attorney General Chris Koster said Monday that Dent County prosecutor Jessica Sparks has resigned from office.Susan E. Bell said she was appointed prosecutor Monday.Koster's office had filed a petition asking a state trial judge to remove Sparks, ...

A Portland police officer was arrested Friday on 62 counts of telephonic harassment and 71 counts of official misconduct after allegations surfaced that he harassed a woman over the phone.

As she prosecuted Michael Corbett for sexual assault, Deputy District Attorney Jaime Stringfield presented some powerful evidence: two witnesses who claimed Corbett made phone calls from jail incriminating himself.

The essence of this quote forms the very cornerstone of the system of justice in the United States.