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MILWAUKEE (AP) _ A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun from Illinois pleaded no contest Monday to indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s. The nun, Norma Giannini, listed in online court records as living in Oak Lawn, Ill., and her attorney left the courthouse without comment after entering the pleas in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on the day her trial was to begin. Giannini faces a maximum 10 years on each of two counts when sentenced Feb. 1. "She decided to do...

(snip) (snip) "Our mission is to go out and educate and inform everyone about the dangers that tobacco use has not only on the person that uses it, but with secondhand smoke, the community and businesses," said Elizabeth Segarra, the CAT coordinator for Hudson County. Both Chiappone and Assemblyman Louis Manzo, D-Jersey City, have proposed anti-smoking bills that are pending in the Assembly. One, which Manzo co-sponsored, would permit municipalities, local boards of health or regional health commissions to prohibit smoking indoors in all public places. "Politics and what makes sense for public health don't always jibe," Manzo told the...

Six New York taverns - including two in Syracuse - sued the state Tuesday and asked a federal judge to stop authorities from enforcing the new law that bans smoking in all indoor work sites, including bars and restaurants. Buies Inc., the owner of Dodester's, a bar at 2426 South Ave., and Barmarsue Inc., owner of Murray's, at 2722 Burnet Ave., are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, along with the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and four other bar owners. The lawsuit - which seeks to block the law statewide - was filed in U.S. District Court in Syracuse because...

    It's not about smoking, it's about constitutional guarantees! 42 tyrants and a ring leader named Bloomberg It is saddening to see the people of one of our nation's 13 original states, whose founding fathers were among those who pledged their "...lives, fortunes and sacred honor..." in order to secure the blessings of liberty and establish protection of individual rights associated with property, allowing 42 tyrants and a ring leader named Bloomberg, to trample upon and disregard these fundamental protections written into our constitutions, state and federal. It is equally saddening to observe two factious groups in New...