UCP-Land of Lincoln expands to serve more adults with disabilities
May 19, 2012
UCP-Land of Lincoln has brought out the welcome mat to McLean County adults with disabilities who want life skills and vocational training to improve their independence.
UCP (United Cerebral Palsy) has moved to a larger facility in Bloomington and is expanding its programs and hiring additional staff to serve more adults with physical and development disabilities, including developmental delays, mental illness and < < Read More >>
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Girl With Cerebral Palsy Shows Off Her Moves – WBOY
May 19, 2012
Earlier this week we told you about Mia Janes, a young girl with cerebral palsy.
Mia took the stage at Bridgeport High School Friday night, joining her dance classmates in two separate numbers.
Her teachers, Kristi Kiefer and Julie Garvin, say they’ve seen Mia come along way in her two years at Dance Unlimited, and that she’s taught them something along the way.
“Our main objective, our main goal, < < Read More >>
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Cerebral palsy, various setbacks couldn’t slow Beck’s career at Heath
May 19, 2012
HEATH — Chris Beck wears his yellow “Livestrong” Lance Armstrong bracelet with more meaning than most.
It’s for his older brother Alex, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2009 and is in remission.
Living strong also is the best way to describe how Chris has dealt with adversity during his 17-plus years. Despite being born premature, having cerebral palsy, undergoing three surgeries < < Read More >>
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Fatal Hit-and-Run Bicycle Accident in Dublin; Lawyer Arrested
May 19, 2012
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On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 a hit-and-run driver struck and killed 57-year-old bicyclist, Mr. Bo Hu, in Dublin, California. This fatal bicycle accident occurred on Dougherty Road near Fall Creek Road about 11:30 p.m. We just recently learned that the man arrested in regard to this bicycle hit-and-run is a local San Francisco attorn < < Read More >>
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Relative of BU crash victim backs driver
May 19, 2012
One week after a car crash that killed three Boston University students in New Zealand, the grandmother of a Salisbury woman seriously injured in it expressed concern that the driver, also a BU student, has been charged.
Stephen Houseman, 20, of Massapequa, N.Y., was charged in an Auckland courtroom with three counts of careless driving causing death and four counts of careless driving causing injury.
House < < Read More >>
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1 dead after military trainer jet crash in California
May 19, 2012
CAMARILLO, Calif. – A privately owned jet contracted by the military to play the enemy in training exercises crashed Friday in a Southern California farm field, killing the civilian pilot, authorities said.
The Hawker Hunter jet trainer went down near Naval Base Ventura County, fire department spokesman Steve Swindle said. The pilot was the only person aboard.
The high-performance military-style aircraft took o < < Read More >>
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Is a Facebook ‘like’ entitled to First Amendment protection?
May 18, 2012
The continuing proliferation of social and digital media in our everyday world continues to have dramatic and previously unseen consequences. Recently, social media law came into the spotlight again as a court ruled on whether a Facebook like is entitled the free speech protections afforded by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. One of the most well known rights received a crash course in social media a < < Read More >>
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Does First Amendment trump antitrust law? In FTC case, Google hopes so
May 18, 2012
May 18 (Reuters) – We don’t know yet whether the Federal
Trade Commission’s investigation into Google’s search
compilation practices will turn into antitrust litigation. But
Google is already asserting that its search results are an
editorial product under the First Amendment — and that freedom
of speech trumps antitrust concerns. It’s a bold argument, but
does it stand up?
The < < Read More >>
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Federal Judge: Terror Law Violates 1st Amendment
May 18, 2012
A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said in a written ruling that a single page < < Read More >>
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Appeals Panel Weighs Question on Press Rights
May 18, 2012
Nearly an hour of oral arguments here before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concluded with no definitive answer as to how the court will rule about whether the journalist, James Risen, can be forced to testify in a high-profile leak case that has raised a significant test of the First Amendment.
One judge, Roger Gregory, sharply criticized prosecutors’ contention that the Cons < < Read More >>
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