Correction: Canada-the Other Candidate Story
Correction: Canada-The Other Candidate story
TORONTO (AP) – In a story Nov. 23 about Toronto politician George Smitherman, who lost the 2010 race for mayor to Rob Ford, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Smitherman said he was criticized during the campaign for being a big-spending …
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New Canaan man arrested for taking dad's car, crack possession
23, around 8:13 a.m., after he allegedly used his 84-year-old father's car without permission and police found what appeared to be crack cocaine and a facsimile firearm in the vehicle. Police responded to the Park Street residence after the father …
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John Nichols: Rep. Trey Radel won't be joining the half a million Americans …
More than four out of five of these arrests were for mere possession, and 46 percent of these arrests (750,591) were for marijuana possession alone. — Arrests and incarceration for drugs — even for first … The bill would lower mandatory minimums …
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The Power of the Presidential Pardon
Angelos was sentenced in 2004 to 55 years' imprisonment for possessing a firearm in connection with selling small amounts of marijuana. … In 2010, Congress finally addressed the crack-powder cocaine disparity, but the law wasn't made retroactive.
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