Associated Press – November 9, 2007 TRENTON, N.J. – Lawmakers in New Jersey, which hasn’t executed anyone in 44 years, will decide within two months whether to wipe the death penalty off the books, legislative leaders said Friday. If approved by the Legislature and Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a death penalty opponent, the move would…

United Press International – November 9, 2007 BERLIN, Nov 9, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — The fall of the Berlin Wall 18 years ago Friday is not the only event in the history of Germany that occurred on the 9th day of November. At least four other significant events took place on that date, Deutsche…

United Press International LOS ANGELES, Nov 9, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — The Los Angeles Police Department announced a mapping program used by its anti-terrorism bureau to identity likely terrorist breeding grounds in Muslim areas. Michael P. Downing, a deputy Los Angeles police chief, detailed a joint program with the University of Southern California to…

Associated Press New York – A priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Rev. David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week…

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