International Business News - Silence http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A federal judge on Thursday barred school districts statewide from holding the daily moment of silence suitable for prayer that is required under state law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/school-moment-of-silence-ban-extended-in-ill.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 22:41:16 EDT Apart from the sound of children crying, the town of Labutta is strangely silent. Traumatized by the ordeal of surviving Cyclone Nargis, few people have anything to say. But it is also fear bred by 46 years of repression by military regimes that keeps them quiet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45256-myanmar-cyclone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080510/stifled-by-regime-myanmar-cyclone-victims-suffer-in-silence.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080510/stifled-by-regime-myanmar-cyclone-victims-suffer-in-silence.htm Sat, 10 May 2008 15:47:50 EDT A man locked away 26 years for murder was granted a new trial and freed on bond Friday with the help of two attorneys who came forward with a client's confession after he died in prison. Alton Loga... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080418/man-who-spent-26-years-in-prison-freed-on-bond.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:54:20 EDT A man locked away 26 years for murder was granted a new trial and freed on bond Friday with the help of two attorneys who came forward with a client's confession after he died in prison. Alton Loga... http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/40786-the-26-year-silence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080418/man-who-spent-26-years-in-prison-is-freed-on-bond.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080418/man-who-spent-26-years-in-prison-is-freed-on-bond.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:50:55 EDT A man who spent 26 years in prison is free on bond while he awaits a new trial for a murder another inmate confessed to his lawyers. Alton Logan's family say they took up a collection in the lobby ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080418/after-26-years-man-freed-with-another-inmates-confession.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:23:20 EDT For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other ti... http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/39513-the-26-year-silence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080412/a-26-year-old-secret-could-free-inmate.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080412/a-26-year-old-secret-could-free-inmate.htm Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:56:31 EDT For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other ti... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080412/26-year-old-secret-could-free-inmate.htm Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:31:35 EDT A federal judge favors expanding a legal challenge to a mandatory moment of silence in classrooms into a class-action lawsuit that would include all Illinois school districts. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080319/class-action-planned-in-ill-school-suit.htm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:14:31 EDT Texas schoolchildren will continue to pray or meditate during a daily minute of silence after a federal court threw out a challenge to the state law. The ruling issued Thursday stems from a complaint by a North Texas couple who say one of their children was told by an elementary school teacher to keep quiet because the minute is a "time for prayer." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080104/court-upholds-texas-moment-of-silence.htm Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:08:18 EST