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A Detroit lottery winners luck may have run out.

Freddie Young, who is accused in the shooting death of his daughter’s landlord, has been denied release from jail until his case goes to trial in January.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Linda Parker said Friday that Young, 62, could flee since he left the scene after the shooting.

Young is charged with first-degree murder. The charge allows judges to hold defendants without setting bond.

Young, a U.S. Postal worker, hit a $46.5 million jackpot with a lottery club in February.

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On January 18, 2011, President Obama ordered federal agencies (via Executive Order 13563) to review existing significant regulations to determine whether they should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed.

As time passes and technologies, legal standards, and circumstances change, regulations may become outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.

We want to make our regulatory program more effective and less burdensome while still achieving its regulatory objectives.

The Department sought suggestions from regulated entities and the general public. We incorporated those suggestions throughout the plan.

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DALLAS – Federal officials have issued grand jury subpoenas for at least two other local businessmen in connection with the John Wiley Price investigation. 

One of those businessmen is a former Dallas Cowboy, and both were in association with the Inland Port project in southern Dallas County.

Monday’s raid on the home and offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and two of his associates has led to rampant speculation as to what exactly federal agents are after.

Now comes word that on the same day, subpoenas were issued to two Dallas businessmen, former Dallas Cowboy Pettis Norman and developer Jon Edmonds.

However, few disagree as to why they are involved.

Both were identified in a series of articles in the Dallas Observer in 2008 that outlined an alleged initiative by Price’s associates, Norman and Edmonds, to force Inland Port developer Richard Allen to hire them as consultants.

The Inland Port is a massive rail, trucking and warehouse district located in south Dallas County off Interstate 45.

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Last week, the department celebrated John Wodatch’s 42 years as a career civil rights lawyer for the federal government. Wodatch, who is retiring today, is a disability rights pioneer who has been instrumental in crafting federal disability rights laws and enforcing those laws.

Wodatch began his civil rights career in 1969 at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where he worked on almost every aspect of civil rights: he worked to desegregate schools in the South; he worked to desegregate the blood supply in hospitals; he helped in efforts to bring African-Americans into trade unions in Philadelphia; he helped draft the Title IX regulations that have opened so many doors of educational opportunity for girls and women; and he worked to ensure that individuals whose first language was not English could access critical social services.

His first foray into advancing opportunities for individuals with disabilities was in 1973, when he helped to create and implement the first comprehensive regulations on disability discrimination in federal programs, the regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. He

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Some attendees at the Bixby Knolls Christian Church, 1240 E. Carson, questioned Johnson’s motivations behind the proposal, which would give him the eastern half of Bixby Knolls’ newly revitalized Atlantic Avenue corridor and nearby neighborhoods. Other residents said it doesn’t matter, while some just asked for Johnson and 8th District Councilwoman Rae Gabelich, who had her own emotionally-charged meeting Tuesday, to come to a compromise.

Bruce Alton, who lives in the area that would be affected, said he doesn’t mind which district he is in and likes both council members.

“However, I don’t think it’s either of your finest hours,” Alton said.

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