|
grove ok broadband wireless isp - broadband isp which
Click to Enlarge
In the past few months, Montgomery County Circuit Court has seen an outbreak in the number of criminal defendants using the insanity defense, and it's costing the county money.At a recent county council meeting, Circuit Court Judge Thomas Milligan appeared before the council to request that money from other areas of the court's budget be transferred to psychiatric services to cover the expenses of dealing with those who claim they are not responsible for their actions due to mental disease or defect.Milligan's court usually sees one or two defendants a year who use the insanity defense, but he has seen five or six cases since summer, he said. .
Before game, Steelers fans already win
Louis Rams on “free TV." Atlantic Broadband and the NFL Network reached an agreement that will enable the local cable company to broadcast the game to all local Atlantic Broadband customers, said David A. Dane, Atlantic Broadband vice president and general manager. “They came around to realizing they should do the right thing, that the game should be available to the largest number of cable customers as possible," Dane said. ‘‘We are elated that a solution has been reached that is a win-win-win for the NFL Network, Atlantic Broadband and, most importantly, the football fans in Johnstown, Altoona and Clearfield." The contest is part of an eight-game package carried by NFL Network that is available to Atlantic Broadband customers who have the digital tier package. Less than half of the company's customers have that service.
Most state workers to get 4.5 percent raise
Daniels announced that most state employees will receive 4.5 percent pay increases.
Those raises, most of which will be given out in February after performance reviews, include a 1.5 percent increase that all state employees are getting in their final 2007 check.
The news came as a relief to Shockley and other state employees. Only last week Daniels had announced that state revenues were falling behind expectations and ordered most state agencies to trim their budgets by 5 percent.
In the past, tight budgets usually meant state salaries were frozen.
"Yeah, I was concerned," said Shockley, who has worked 31 years for the state in the Department of Personnel. "I kind of assumed we wouldn't be getting a raise this year."
An e-mail sent to state employees Thursday, however, reassured them.
|
|