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Women make up fewer than 2% of the inmates sentenced to die on death row in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center .

Former Bell City Councilman George Cole was sentenced today to five years probation, 180 days of home confinement and 1,000 hours of community service for bilking public funds by receiving inflated salaries for sitting on city boards that rarely met.

Athens-Clarke County police have issued a lookout for one of two gunmen who robbed a Prince Avenue restaurant last week, pistol-whipping the manager and forcing him into a freezer.

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gestures as delivers a speech, beside his running mate Jusuf Kalla, on a phinisi boat, a traditional Indonesian ship, at Sunda Kelapa port after he was declared the winner of the presidential elec Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was declared the winner of Indonesia's presidential election on Tuesday, ... (more)

Over the past two months, I have toured the Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and the Department of Health and Human Services facility at Lackland Air Force Base where immigrant children without legal status are being processed.

Florida Libertarian candidate for governor Adrian Wyllie draws 9 percent support and makes the race between Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic frontrunner Charlie Crist too close to call, a new Quinnipiac University poll says.

Is it any wonder the ponderous freight trains laden with crude oil are the source of continuing concern for residents at the Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany, and elsewhere along the rails in the Capital Region and the state? Residents still do not have a satisfactory answer for how officials will keep a disaster like the one last year in ... (more)

Garner native and author Robert Louis Shepard will be present his new book,"Fulfilling My Destiny, Step By Step – An Autobiography" from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at 5th Avenue Coffee Café, 1350 5th Ave., #250, Garner.

In less than two weeks, Gresham will turn into Swingtown for two days when the Mt.

Iraq Now And In The Future, an exciting post show talk, has been scheduled to run in conjunction with The Nightmares Of Carlos Fuentes, at the Arcola Theatre, on Thursday 24 July at 9.00pm.

Melissa Myrick is photographed with her niece, 4-year-old Ariana Ashbrook, at their home in Fenton, Mo., on Friday, July 11, 2014.

I blogged over the weekend about the Ninth Circuit's puzzling new case stopping an execution to allow for First Amendment litigation over right to access the details of how the execution will be carried out.

The 25th annual Kids Count report from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation ranked Arkansas 41st in 16 indicators across four areas: economic well-being, education, health and family and community.

The mother of a woman sexually assaulted and killed by members of her husband's Marine unit testified today that she last spoke with her daughter the night of her death, and everything appeared to be fine before they ended the conversation.

Justin Morneau has played in 89 games for the Rockies in his first year with the club before being placed on the disabled list with a neck strain.

Ryan Pitts, of Nashua, N.H. talks with reporters Thursday June 26, 2014 in Concord, N.H. Pitts will wear the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor for combat valor after he continued to fight after being wounded in one of Afghanistan's bloodiest battles.

On Friday, after receiving citizen tips the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office was able to identify the three suspects in the photographs that were released to the press.

Revel in the literary embarrassment with New York's "Best Story Hour" , as Naked Girls Reading presents AWKWARD.

Mysore, July 21- Vijayanagar Police have arrested a dreaded criminal who had robbed 600 gram jewellery from a room in Hotel Grand Maurya on Hunsur Road on June 9 belonging to T.V. Umesh, a rice mill owner in Madhugiri in Tumkur District, who was in city to attend a wedding of a relative at the nearby Yashaswini Conventional Hall and recovered ... (more)

Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe inspect a refrigerator wagon, which according to employees and local residents contains bodies of passengers of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane, at a railway station in the town of Torez, Donetsk region July 20, 2014.