Posts Tagged ‘board’
Ga. board denies clemency for Troy Davis (AP)
AP – Georgia’s pardons board rejected a last-ditch clemency plea from death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday despite high-profile support from figures including the pope and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.
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GE’s Immelt to head Obama economic advisory board (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama is restructuring his economic advisory board to place an emphasis on job creation, and he is naming General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt as its new head.
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Fed board: Keep companies from oil spill evidence (AP)
AP – The credibility of the investigation into the Gulf oil spill is being undermined because representatives of companies that made or maintained a key piece of evidence — the blowout preventer — have had too much access to it as it is being analyzed, a federal board says.
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Election board: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP)
AP – Rahm Emanuel forged ahead with his campaign for Chicago mayor Thursday after an elections panel ruled his name can appear on the Feb. 22 ballot, rejecting arguments the former White House chief of staff forfeited his city residency when he went to work for President Barack Obama in Washington.
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Gunman fires at Fla. school board, kills self (AP)
AP – An ex-convict calmly held a school board at gunpoint, complaining about taxes and his wife being fired before shooting at close range as the superintendent begged, “Please don’t.”
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Official: Fla. school board shooting ‘surreal’ (AP)
AP – A gunman who fired point-blank at school board members before fatally shooting himself had for much of the meeting sat with the rest of the audience, listening to routine business.
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Gunman fires on Florida school board meeting before killing himself
A gunman who opened fire on a Florida school board meeting fatally shot himself during a standoff with local authorities, police said Tuesday.
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