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- The New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resolution the lawmaker assailed as an injustice to the people who elected him.
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- Industrial gas supplier Airgas Inc. on Tuesday rejected the unsolicited $5 billion buyout bid from larger rival Air Products and Chemicals Inc., calling it a "bargain basement price."
- Gov. Tim Pawlenty defended the constitutionality of his power to cut state spending Tuesday, arguing in a brief to the Minnesota Supreme Court that he acted within his authority when he cut funding for a state food program for the poor without legislative approval.
- Things got a bit testy at a Florida Cabinet meeting Tuesday as potential gubernatorial rivals Alex Sink and Bill McCollum sparred over whether the state should sue the Bank of America, where Sink was once a top executive.
- Gov. Bill Ritter took a dispute over campaign finance laws straight to the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the court to rule quickly because he believes inconsistencies in the state constitution are "likely to cause widespread confusion as the election season begins."
- Could hundreds of millions of dollars in Georgia sales taxes be going uncollected every year?
- A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that San Francisco jail guards did not violate inmates' constitutional rights when strip-searching them without any reason to believe that they had weapons or contraband.
- Dozens of irate clients in the U.S. Virgin Islands are scrambling to recover at least $2.5 million from a missing real estate agent who is a mother of six.
- A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.
- A judge says televangelist Joyce Meyer doesn't have to submit to a deposition in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving a woman slain with her two children.
- A judge won't change a decision that allows a Detroit newspaper reporter to assert a Fifth Amendment right to protect unnamed sources.
- A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit against an Illinois community college by an administrator who claimed he was retaliated against because of his Muslim religion and Iraqi roots, even undercutting his bid to head the school.
- The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.
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