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Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department that accuses him and his officers of systematically discriminating against Latinos.
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Nikolai Beshkarev, chief of the basketball office of the Soviet Sport Games Department, rarely traveled abroad with the national team. He made an exception to attend a pre-Olympic tournament from June 30 to July 2, 1972, in Munich for the Soviets and three other European squads.
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It was more than a routine case of teenage shoplifting.
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To Marvin Barnes, an African- American college basketball standout whose run-ins with the law earned him the nickname “Bad News,” Tom McMillen was the great white hype.
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Beth Cox works at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where her grandfather was a mechanic and a United Auto Workers official.
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The fistfight at the Short Branch Saloon in Neenah began after Dan Wintheiser, a union worker at a manhole-cover foundry, altered a yard sign promoting Wisconsin’s governor to read “I Can’t Stand Walker.”
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With the threat of his removal gone, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker turned his attention to a campaign promise -- creating 250,000 jobs in the remaining two and half years of his first term.
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When Greg Eckert joined the painter’s union in Fort Wayne 25 years ago, one of every five Indiana workers was a dues-paying member of organized labor. The ratio now is one in nine.
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A Maryland public pension fund was named lead plaintiff in a consolidated shareholder lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. accusing the carmaker of failing to disclose defects related to sudden-acceleration of its vehicles.
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