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Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Monday a measure that would ban elected officials - from Sacramento down to the smallest city or school district - from running for public office once they are convicted of a felony. The measure, AB 2410, was introduced by Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Arleta. It's unclear now how it will affect a number of local officials around Los Angeles County who are facing various felony charges, including City Councilman Richard Alarcon, because it applies to those who are convicted after Jan. 1, 2013. Alarcon and his wife Flora are fighting voter fraud and perjury charges...

MADISON, WI (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin System was unaware it employed a total of 40 felons this fall, including two who committed homicides in the 1970s and four child sex offenders, according to an audit released Tuesday.UW System President Kevin Reilly promised a review of all 40 cases cited by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau to determine whether the crimes were related to their employment and the system should dismiss the employees. He said 12 of the employees no longer work for the system and 25 committed the crimes before they were hired. State law prohibits job discrimination...

EAST ORANGE, N.J. -- If Sunni A. Salahuddin is not in when you call, his voice mail message instructs you to leave not just your name and number, but your "date of arrest or conviction." That's the kind of information Salahuddin needs, so he can make it go away. Clear Your Record! That's the name of Salahuddin's business. Salahuddin calls himself an "expungement technician." For a few hundred dollars, a fraction of what a lawyer would charge, the paralegal helps people scrub their records clean of arrests or convictions -- blots that can mark them for life, foreclosing opportunities to...

(FindLaw) -- As the scandal over the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity has continued to unfold, there is a renewed focus on Karl Rove -- the White House deputy chief of staff whom President Bush calls his political "architect." Newsweek has reported that Matt Cooper, in an e-mail to his bureau chief at Time magazine, wrote that he had spoken "to Rove on double super-secret background for about two min[ute]s before he went on vacation ..." In that conversation, Rove gave Cooper "big warning" that Time should not "get too far out on Wilson." Rove was referring, of...

Fast Eddie Rendell (Gov. Pennsylvania) is on Fox News Sunday tomorrow. Chris Wallace is the host. Email Chris and respectfully ask him to ask Rendell about the local CBS News footage catching local Philadelphia Democratic operatives hand-carrying voter registrations from felons out of the local prison. It’s illegal to hand-carry registrations. It’s illegal for these people to have access to inmates. It’s illegal for felons to vote. And Fast Eddie is more concerned about the felon vote than the military vote. Here’s where to check for local listings and airtimes. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137085,00.html Here’s how to contact Chris Wallace: fns@foxnews.com