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State lawmakers consider laws to protect gun owners from employer bias

Last updated Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 8:07am

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some Missouri lawmakers want to protect gun owners from any threat of workplace discrimination, just as state residents currently are protected for race, religion and gender.

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Wilcox bill aims to protect minors

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Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 8:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A bill sponsored by a local lawmaker would protect the rights of a minor who is unlawfully detained by an older boyfriend.

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SLC undie run, Sept. 24, 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 5:10pm

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London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks at a press conference at City Hall in London, Monday July 18, 2011, following the resignation of London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates, in less than 24 hours, as the fallout from the phone hacking scandal continued.(AP Photo/Ian West, pa)

UK PM calls for emergency session of parliament

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Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 9:33am

LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called for an emergency session of parliament to brief lawmakers on the spreading phone hacking scandal, trying to gain control of a crisis that is threatening Rupert Murdoch's media empire, the upper echelons of London's police force and the country's leader himself.

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Mystery surrounds drowning death of wife of prominent Idaho lawmaker

William L. Spence Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 9:37am

McCALL, Idaho -- Police are awaiting the results of a toxicology test as they continue to investigate the drowning death of Mary Jo Roberts.

Roberts, the wife of Idaho House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts of Donnelly, went missing last Friday. Her body was recovered the next day from the North Fork of the Payette River, about six miles south of McCall.

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