REGIONAL BRIEFING- July 6, 2008http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501506.html?nav=r... Fundraising Ruling Prompts a Scramble- July 6, 2008 In summer 2003, an Illinois state senator used a new law to collect campaign contributions six times the normal limit for his insurgent U.S. Senate race against a multimillionaire securities trader.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501562.html?nav=r... Chicago Ban May Test Ruling- July 6, 2008 CHICAGO -- One small reflection of Chicago's bloody year is a sign outside a South Side school that says, "Congratulations Class of 2008. Stop the Violence." The school is not a college or a high school, but Carnegie Elementary in Woodlawn.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501736.html?nav=r... WEEK IN REVIEW- July 6, 2008http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501552.html?nav=r... Employers use federal law to deny benefits- July 6, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070500593.html?nav=r... After DC gun ban overturned, city seeks new rules- July 6, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Dale Metta, who manages a gun shop just outside the District of Columbia limits in Maryland, has had to turn away dozens of city residents wanting to buy handguns in recent days. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Washington's 32-year-old ban on possessing handguns.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070500781.html?nav=r... Supreme Slip-Up- July 5, 2008 WHEN A NEWSPAPER gets its facts wrong, it's supposed to publish a correction, and, if someone's reputation has been harmed, a retraction and apology. It can be embarrassing, but the occasional taste of crow probably does more good than harm to the media's credibility.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402146.html?nav=r... Woman Accused in Tax Scam Is Aiding Probe- July 5, 2008 The woman at the center of the D.C. tax scandal has spoken extensively with authorities in recent months, providing them with a detailed outline of the largest embezzlement scheme in District government history, according to law enforcement sources and others familiar with the investigation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402357.html?nav=r... Unclear future for 10 men on Nebraska's death row- July 4, 2008 TECUMSEH, Neb. -- For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070401594.html?nav=r... VIRGINIA BRIEFING- July 4, 2008http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303663.html?nav=r... |