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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. wants to revive the idea of a regional booking center to better serve the public and police in Allegheny River Valley communities.
Zappala, who discussed the plan on Tuesday with District Judge Carolyn Bengel and the police chiefs for several municipalities, said the proposed center would be in Harmar's municipal building and would serve about a dozen communities.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Egencia(R), an Expedia, Inc. company, today unveiled its 2011 Corporate Travel Forecast and Hotel Negotiability Index, finding that average ticket prices (ATPs) for top corporate travel destinations will remain relatively flat to slightly up and average daily rates (ADRs) will be slightly up overall in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. New to this year's forecast is an Advance Purchase Advisory that identifies ideal advance booking windows and potential savings for flight purchase in nearly 40 markets around the world. After a year of significant flexibility, Egencia's Hotel Negotiability Index suggests that corporations will face a more challenging negotiating environment in 2011.
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Here's a reach: Mike Leach just so happened to be landing Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport, conveniently while the college football team from Westwood was out of town, perhaps for some stealth negotiations regarding a potential coaching vacancy.
Or, the former Texas Tech coach is just in town for a book signing.
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Lawyers for several online travel companies and three local governments were back in federal court Wednesday, with both sides asking the judge to grant their motions for summary judgment.
Much of the argument in U.S. District Court in Baltimore focused on whether the e-booking sites act as operators of the hotels for which they book rooms.
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TROTWOOD -- The Hara Arena Conference and Exibition Center has entered a new era with the help of a former employee.
The six-building complex has hired VenuWorks, an Iowa-based management company, to oversee marketing and booking for the next three years.
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lawyer, of the term "courtesy booking." He said he's heard of FBI officers using a police facility to fill out their own paperwork, but not local police booking federal suspects. Jeffrey Meyer, a former U.S. attorney and now a law professor at Quinnipiac Law School, said he also had never heard of the term, but that's not to say it is illegal.
Meyer said citizens want a degree of cooperation among enforcement agencies. He said it becomes an issue when it "effectuates an arrest for which an agency has no authority.
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Elements of a "pluralized" drug policy have been emerging in the United States that attempt to augment punishment with an emphasis on enhanced public health and therapeutic measures. While much of this reform involves compulsory treatment diversion, a "middle ground" to reform has involved the use of pre-arrest/booking strategies in support of harm reduction policies and noncompulsory treatment diversion. In this examination of the cities of Baltimore and San Francisco, we argue that such strategies have proven problematic because of the contradictions inherent in pluralized drug control models that attempt to reconcile abstinence and prohibitions against drug use with tolerance and outreach. We identify two primary factors contributing to these contradictions. The first is an emphasis ...
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Usually you hunt around home, but a few years ago decided to start saving money for a guided hunt somewhere. Maybe you've always wanted to hunt elk or...
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Glenda Williams has been the director of the Long Beach Public Library since 2009.
Question: Have you read "Fifty Shades of Grey"?