Opponents of a 1998 law authored by an Indiana congressman that denies federal aid to thousands of college students with criminal drug records are trying to work around the law by offering financial help to those affected. A coalition of drug-law reform groups plans Tuesday to inaugurate a scholarship for those denied aid because of drug records. The John W. Perry Fund scholarships honor a New York police officer who decried the war on drugs and died saving people in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. [continues 736 words]
Opponents of a 1998 law that denies federal aid to thousands of college students with criminal drug records are trying to work around the law by offering financial help to those affected. A coalition of drug-law reform groups plans Tuesday to inaugurate a scholarship for those denied aid because of drug records. The John W. Perry Fund scholarships honor a New York police officer who decried the war on drugs and died saving people in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. [continues 717 words]
Efforts to ease a ban on federal financial aid for college students with drug convictions have reached an impasse. So far this school year, more than 43,000 would-be college students face the possible denial of financial aid under a law passed in 1998. The chief lobbying group for colleges and universities would like the ban repealed, as would students on nearly 200 campuses who have organized to fight it. Federal officials said they had hoped to ease the ban through administrative action but could not find a way. They said it is up to Congress instead to amend the law. [continues 276 words]
A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law: Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 525 words]
A ban on giving federal aid to college, graduate and professional-school students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. The change has brought louder protests against the ban. Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 173 words]
A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law. Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 659 words]
Legislation More Harsh Than Author Originally Intended A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law: Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 454 words]
A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law: Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 354 words]
Education Department Could Screen Out Three Times As Many As Last Year A ban on giving federal aid to college, graduate and professional-school students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. The change has brought louder protests against the ban. Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 719 words]
Souder Bill Denies Aid To More Students Than Intended A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year - more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law: Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 736 words]
A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase reflects a clarification in the U.S. Education Department's aid application, which screens for people with drug records. But the change has brought louder protests against the law: Even the measure's author says enforcement has been taken too far. [continues 761 words]
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A marijuana smuggler sentenced to die for the murders of three men who betrayed him stands to become the first person executed by the federal government since 1963. Juan Raul Garza also is first in line to die by injection at the new federal death house outside Terre Haute. He's one of 20 men, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, awaiting federal execution at the U.S. prison here. In July, Garza filed his final possible appeal, a step none of the other prisoners has yet taken. The Supreme Court is expected to consider the appeal within the next month. [continues 505 words]
EASLEY, S.C. – Late in the afternoon of Feb. 5, 1992, the police chief, a detective and two social workers entered the maternity ward of Easley Baptist Medical Center and took custody of 3-day-old Tevin Dashuan Whitner. Not finding the infant's mother, they left a notice on her hospital bed. The next morning, police came back, arrested Cornelia Whitner and led her away handcuffed and weeping. She had smoked crack cocaine before going into labor and the drug was found in her newborn's urine. To authorities this was child neglect. [continues 1957 words]
