Appeals court considering Va. inmate's release

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Barber, who made a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, testified that Wolfe hired him to kill Petrole to get out of a drug debt. Barber later recanted and said he acted alone. U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson tossed the conviction and death …
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Ark. lawmakers weigh drug-testing proposal

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas state lawmakers are weighing a bill that would require prospective and current recipients of unemployment benefits to pass a drug test and a proposal to require the same of the state's elected officials and public …
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Audit blasts Texas cancer agency over transparency

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… most significant revelation concerns the cancer agency's biggest grant, $ 25.2 million awarded in June 2010 to the Statewide Clinical Trials Network of Texas, which was created to speed up the process by which clinical trials are done for cancer drugs.
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