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Level -> From the news desk.... (5/17/2007 4:34:12 PM)
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HARTFORD, Conn. - The Connecticut legislature voted unanimously Wednesday to give $5 million to a man imprisoned for more than 18 years for a rape he didn’t commit, then gave him a standing ovation.
Moved by James C. Tillman’s humbleness and lack of bitterness, lawmakers said they hoped the money will let him live the rest of his life in relative comfort.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18715007
WASHINGTON - South Dakota has seen some fiercely competitive congressional elections in recent years. As the next Senate campaign approaches, however, partisans on both sides are uncharacteristically quiet.
They are deferring - for now - to Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, who is recovering from a brain hemorrhage he suffered in December. He is not yet able to walk unassisted and is undergoing speech therapy, preparing for an eventual return to the Senate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18716235
TOKYO - Japan's first anonymous drop box for unwanted babies triggered a wave of anger and soul searching Wednesday after it was discovered that a preschooler — and not an infant — was left by his father on the service's first day.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18709944
NEW YORK - Vincent Bugliosi is so obsessed with President John F. Kennedy’s murder he spent 21 years sifting the evidence and wrote more than a million words to find Lee Harvey Oswald did it alone -- the same conclusion reached by the official report 43 years ago.
Bugliosi, who prosecuted cult leader Charles Manson and told his grisly tale in the best-seller “Helter Skelter” and wrote about O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, says other cases pale beside the JFK assassination, which he calls “the crime of the century.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18708752
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