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The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline issued an order today that permanently removes Judge Elizabeth Halverson from the bench. Judge Halverson was suspended from the bench in July 2007. She lost a recent bid for re-election in the August primary election. She faced a disciplinary hearing in August on charges of misconduct. After two weeks of hearings in August, the commission heard a dozen complaints, including that the judge was accused of sleeping on the bench and treating her staff like servants. “Some judges are in office for an entire career and do not accumulate the type of dismal professional...

He won't rest until he finds the real forgers.

LETTERS: RECOUNTING THE RECOUNT Re "Sleeping with the GOP" [February 4-10]: Wayne Barrett unfairly characterizes the 2000 protest in Dade County as having shut down the recount there. The mob bloomed when Democratic election officials tried to move their efforts from public view to a secret back room. The mob relented and dissipated when the recount was resumed in public. So how can you honestly suggest that the protest's intent or effect was to shut down the recount? Michael Hagen Hell's Kitchen

NEW YORK -- Fire broke out Wednesday morning at the Harlem building that houses the offices of the Rev. Al Sharpton, one day after he filed papers announcing his candidacy for president in 2004. The fire was reported at 8:30 a.m. at 1941 Madison Ave., which houses Sharpton's National Action Network on the second story of the three-story building. It was extinguished by 10 a.m. Fire officials said the blaze was largely confined to a reception area where Sharpton holds rallies and news conferences. One man was being treated at Harlem Hospital for smoke inhalation. The fire also spread to...

The former chief executive and the former chief financial officer of Tyco International Ltd. were indicted yesterday on charges that they reaped $600 million through a racketeering scheme involving stock fraud, unauthorized bonuses and falsified expense accounts. The company's former general counsel was also indicted, on charges that he falsified company records to conceal $14 million in improper loans to himself. L. Dennis Kozlowski, 55, the son of a Newark police officer who as chief executive helped build Tyco into an international conglomerate, and Mark H. Swartz, 42, his financial adviser and second-in-command, are accused of using the money to...

Kausfiles is starting a collection to buy Aaron Sorkin drugs. According to a recently-posted fashionwiredaily story, the talk in Hollywood is about "'how bad The West Wing has gotten this season" now that the show's creator and writer is clean and sober. "Apparently, without the use of drugs, particularly psychedelic mushrooms, Sorkin cannot sustain the convoluted plot points and interwoven stories," says FWD. ... It's OK! It happened to the Velvet Underground too! ... Kausfiles knows a nice little place, right near the Four Seasons, with blacked out windows and everything. Sorkin will feel right at home, and everyone else's ...

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