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Moore Trial to Be Held in Small Court Room

Court Orders Moore Trial Open to Public
The judicial ethics trial of suspended Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore will be open to the public, but getting a seat may require planning and patience. The Court of the Judiciary ruled Wednesday that the November 12th trial of Moore would be held in the courtroom of the Alabama Supreme Court in the Alabama Judicial Building. Lawyers for Moore had asked that the trial be moved to a larger venue, like the Davis Theater in downtown Montgomery. The court ruling said moving the trial would be too expensive and would present security problems.

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Latest on Ten Commandments Monument Battle

Cherokee Ponders Commandments Display
CANTON - The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners is being asked to approve a Ten Commandments display at the county courthouse. A group of local church pastors say they plan to present granite tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments to the board on the steps of the Cherokee County Justice Center on Friday.

Rabbi's Home Splits Neighbors
At its simplest, this is a story about zoning laws and building permits. But Congregation Etz Chaim's three decades in Hancock Park are, in fact, a much more convoluted tale about a neighborhood aching from the pains of change. A long-running legal battle continues over Etz Chaim's right to gather in prayer and to build an expansive new house of worship. Beneath the legal briefs and appeals are cultural tectonic plates that have been grinding against each other as two passionate groups struggle over who defines a community.

Some May Hate Us, But Here We Stand
The chattering classes - educated men and women who are comfortably off, rise with the Today programme and retire after some dinner-party philosophising - pride themselves on being tolerant, sensible and humane. Yet they share one prejudice that turns them into rabid persecutors: Christians. Christians are seen as creationist fundamentalists who are anti-women, anti-gays and anti-semitic. Their churches are led by child abusers and autocratic bigots; their faithful are out of touch and out to convert.

Barrow Discusses ACLU Plan
WINDER — The Barrow County Board of Commissioners took talks of potential defense attorneys in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against them into executive session during Tuesday night’s meeting. The county decided to drop their first choice for defense, the American Center for Law and Justice, for undisclosed reasons, earlier this month.

Ridge: U.S. and E.U. Should Pioneer Facial Technology
BERLIN -- The United States and the European Union should lead the world in setting international standards for biometrics such as facial recognition technology, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Wednesday. Ridge said agreement between America and Europe on ways to combine fingerprints and facial recognition in travel documents could lead to a global standard.

Man Suing For Compensation
Over Stolen Bill Of Rights
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A Connecticut man is suing federal authorities over North Carolina's original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights that he possessed until this year. Bob Matthews is suing the feds for what he calls their "illegal sting operation," which brought the 1789 document back to Raleigh 138 years after it disappeared from the state Capitol during the Civil War.

90 Percent of Kids Use Computers
WASHINGTON -- If kids today seem more wired than ever, it's because they are. About 90 percent of people ages 5 to 17 use computers and 59 percent of them use the Internet - rates that are, in both cases, higher than those of adults. Even kindergartners are becoming more plugged in: One out of four 5-year-olds uses the Internet.

God said 'Let there be light'
Forget the big bang, tune in to the big hum
THE big bang sounded more like a deep hum than a bang, according to an analysis of the radiation left over from the cataclysm. Physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle has created audio files of the event which can be played on a PC. "The sound is rather like a large jet plane flying 100 feet above your house in the middle of the night," he says. Giant sound waves propagated through the blazing hot matter that filled the universe shortly after the big bang.

Posted by Editor at October 30, 2003 10:34 AM