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Woman released from life sentence A woman sentenced to life in prison for getting caught with $40 worth of cocaine is now enjoying her freedom. By Corey Rangel KSNT-TV May 18 A woman sentenced to life in prison for getting caught with $40 worth of cocaine is now enjoying her freedom. Gloria VanWinkle had been in prison for 12 years before a Geary County judge ordered she be released for time already served. Last month, the secretary of corrections had reviewed her case and recommended her sentenced be shortened. The judge agreed and freed her. Since then she's already...

The 2004 American presidential election is shaping up to be a rough one by recent standards with questions already rife about President Bush's National Guard service and Senator John Kerry's private life. But in historical terms, this is quite mild stuff and there is a moderating influence these days in that the heavyweight US media are reluctant to get involved in what they see as private issues. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post, for example, have written about whether President Bush actually carried out his duties as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1973....