Posts Tagged ‘avoids’

May 30 2010

China premier avoids backing sanctions for NKorea

China’s premier expressed no support for proposed U.N. sanctions against ally North Korea over its alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, declining Sunday to join other key nations in blaming Pyongyang.

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May 22 2010

Ohio woman avoids prison when strangers repay debt

In this May 6, 2010 photo, Dorothy Rembert, 61, of Mount Auburn, Ohio, sits inside her home in Cincinnati. Rembert appeared in court Thursday, May 20, 2010, to answer to a nearly 30-year-old theft charge she thought was taken care of decades ago. Now, thanks to donations, the grandmother of seven who is blind and relies on a walker to get around, has paid the $3,000 legal debt. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong) MANDATORY CREDITAn Ohio woman with a $3,000 legal debt from nearly 30 years ago has avoided prison, thanks to strangers who paid it off.


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March 13 2010

Ex-Edwards aide avoids jail over sex tape

A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards has avoided jail again in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows Edwards and his lover in a sexual encounter.

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