STATE SUPREME COURT MOVES TO STRIP SCOOTER LIBBY’S LAW LICENSE
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court took a step Monday to suspend the law license of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., the former White House aide convicted of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. Court system records show that Libby was licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania in 1976, and that his license is currently on inactive status. Caroline M. Brobeil, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia law firm Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis LLP, said Libby became an associate after his 1975 graduation from Columbia University Law School and left in 1981. Libby also was managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office of the Philadelphia-based firm Dechert LLP from 1995 to 2001. [via ASSOCIATED PRESS]
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TALK OF GINORMOUS BILLBOARDS ON INKY BUILDING PUTTING A BEE IN SOME BONNETS
PHILADELPHIA — A plan to temporarily drape the Inquirer-Daily News Building with a massive advertisement for the film Bee Movie was in doubt today, after community groups denounced the effort, calling it “garish” and “shocking.” [J]ournalism ethicist Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute said the proposed deal should raise questions for reporters at The Inquirer and Daily News and for readers as well. “Why do you need to take a time-honored building that houses two reputable papers and wrap it up and turn it into some kind of animated character?” Steele asked. “Is it strictly being done to make money? Are times that bad?” [via the INQUIRER]
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BIZARRE RACIST HILLBILLY SEX TORTURE KIDNAPPING BUSTED UP BY SHERIFF
BIG CREEK, W.Va. (AP) — For at least a week, authorities say, a young black woman was held captive in a mobile home, forced to eat animal waste, stabbed, choked and repeatedly sexually abused — all while being peppered with a racial slur. It wasn’t until deputies acting on an anonymous tip drove to a ramshackle trailer deep in West Virginia’s rural hills that she was found. Limping toward the door with her arms outstretched, she uttered, “Help me,” the Logan County sheriff’s office said. [via ASSOCIATED PRESS]