Murder-plot-accused singer’s split amicable

Divorce documents show that the lead singer of metal band As I Lay Dying had an amicable split with the estranged wife he’s now accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill, but she was concerned about how recent changes in his behaviour would affect his parenting. Meggan Lambesis, the wife of Tim Lambesis, said in the court papers obtained by The Associated Press that she worried about his ability to care for their three adopted children, but she gave no indication she felt in danger

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Ruling Halts Federal Funding of Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research

A year and a half after President Obama loosened restrictions on government funding of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, a federal judge on Monday, Aug. 23, declared all such studies temporarily off-limits for taxpayer dollars, on the grounds that they violate a 1996 law.

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The Supreme Court: Espousing Easier Escheat

Each year billions of dollars' worth of property is abandoned all over the U.S. When that property is something as tangible as buildings or land, there is no question about who takes it over.The state in which it is located gets it through “escheat,” a feudal doctrine by which the land of a man who died without heirs reverted to the original grantor, or lord of the manor

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