Divorced parents not always required to pay for children's college expenses in MississippiIn a case last week out of Washington County, Mississippi, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed a decision requiring a father to pay 75% of his son's future college

More than 100 residents impacted by a flood early this year filed a personal injury lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week. The flood victims are seeking compensation regarding negligence, infliction of emotional distress, and personal injury . Specifically, the

Two months ago, federal food regulators said that they were unable to find a safety threshold for the industrial chemical of melamine in baby formula. Now, they have found a way to settle on a standard that allows for higher

A family of four were found dead in a home with high levels of carbon monoxide where they were meeting friends for the weekend. A team of technicians determined the house's hot water and snow melting systems malfunctioned, causing the

A Walmart employee was killed on Friday morning after an unruly crowd rushed to the doors of the store and trampled him. Also, a 26 year old woman suffered a miscarriage after being overcome by the throngs of shoppers. The

A 2-year-old boy was killed in a house fire in Chicago's South Side's Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood. The fire occurred in a 1 ½ story house in the 5700 block of South Hoyne Avenue. When firefighters arrived they found the blaze "fully

Last week, an Illinois city council finance committee approved seven Illinois workers' comp settlements totaling about $270,100. Some of the workers' comp injuries are several years old, but the council had to wait until an injured party completed treatment to

As an IT professional you are tasked with balancing the often conflicting goals of confidentiality, integrity and availibility, the corner stone of information security. In addition to these core business objectives, many of you currently face regulatory pressures, or will

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THE Juba peace process brought to the fore the old debate on restorative justice against retributive justice as a means of remedying the injustices caused to the people of Northern Uganda during the 21-year-old armed conflict between the UPDF and

TWO American lawyers formerly working for the International Criminal Court and other experts on war crimes are in the country to help Uganda in implementing the key aspects of the Juba agreement on accountability and reconciliation.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Osun State Command said at the weekend that it had discovered and destroyed 16 Indian Hemp Farms within the state.

Joseph Kasirye of Masaka was only 12 when death struck him in the most gruesome way.

Former Rwandan Mayor, Elie Ndayambaje on trial alongside five other accused from Butare prefecture, South Rwanda, Wednesday described a Kinyarwanda word "gukora" literary meaning "to work" used during the 1994 genocide as propaganda against the Hutu elite.

The top United Nations humanitarian official today stressed the need to ensure the protection of civilians and the safety of aid workers in Sudan, particularly in the strife-torn Darfur region, where the world body and its partners are aiding some

Global moves to improve the rights of indigenous communities over their local knowledge have largely failed, say experts.

A delegation from the Angolan National Assembly (Parliament) led by MP Carolina Cerqueira, chairwoman of that institution's Human Rights Commission, participated on 20-25 November 2008 in the fifth inter-parliamentary session of Human Rights and Religious Liberty Conference, organised in Scranton

Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has defended an election commission appointed by the regional government, but rejected by many presidential candidates.