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Thursday, June 26, 2008
DA: Charges not likely in Diboll election case
No criminal charges will likely be filed against five Angelina County residents who inappropriately voted in a recent Diboll city council election where they are not registered to vote, according to Angelina County District Attorney Clyde Herrington.
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Citation to lose 128 jobs
About one quarter of Citation’s jobs at the Lufkin foundry will be lost beginning in August due to consolidation efforts, according to an Internet company press release.
Citation announced Thursday via its Web site at www.citation.net that it was cutting back its Lufkin workforce by 128 hourly and salaried employees. The location has a total of 466 workers. The move was a strategic decision to support capital investments at its plant in Brewton, Ala., eliminating process redundancies and optimizing its manufacturing footprint, the release stated.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense in their homes, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms restrictions intact. — The Associated Press
