| Immigration rule on background checks eases
A change in immigration rules will allow thousands of immigrants, already in the United States and applying for legal residency, to get their green cards before FBI background checks are completed, officials said Friday.Critics said the change could allow criminals to get through and threaten national security. The change, which affects only legal immigrants already in the country waiting to adjust their status to legal resident, was outlined in a memo dated Feb. 4 written by Michael Aytes, associate director for domestic operations with the Citizenship and Immigration Services. "In the unlikely event that the FBI name checks reveal actionable information after the immigration judge grants an alien permanent residency status, (the Department of Homeland Security) may detain and initiate removal proceedings against the permanent resident," according to the memo.One of the reasons for the decision, immigrant rights advocates say, is that the U.S.
Where Health, High Fashion Intersect
Hartford Hospital sponsored its "High Fashion With A Heart" fashion show Saturday at Hartford Stage to benefit the Henry Low Heart Center and the theater's stage education fund. Models sported new spring fashions for a sold-out crowd of mostly women who can't wait for the better weather — and a new clothes season — to arrive.
Among them was Ellen Dornelas, center director of Behavioral Health Programs, who put work aside to sit back and relax.
"I'm just looking for ideas for clothes," said Dornelas about the outfits from West Hartford's bk & co.
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For Jerry, comedy still the bee's knees
Your 50s is probably the best you'll ever be, because you still have a little youthful energy and you're smarter," he said. "You just get smarter as you get older, and then the 60s, there'll be the physical decline." Not that his visage, etched on our memories from an era of television has aged. "I'm feeling it," he said, smiling. "I may not look it but I'm feeling it." .
Another push from a Bush
Indiana has more money than any athletic department in the country and it's afraid of spending a couple million dollars to rid itself of perpetual phone caller Kelvin Sampson. The only price to be paid now is Indiana players hearing opposing pep bands playing the Blondie classic "Call Me" from now until the end of the season Mike Bibby was the last King standing from the great playoff teams, and if he wasn't the best player, he's the one who did the most to push the 2002 Kings to the brink of the Western Conference championship, and presumably, an NBA title. The rest of this season is going to seem like an eternity for deal-busting Maverick Devean George. The Warriors wouldn't make it out of the round, but after last week's 120-118 win over the Suns, it's hard not to dream of a Golden State-Phoenix playoff series.
HealthMarket critiqued
A multi-state market conduct review of health insurance company HealthMarkets Inc. by state insurance departments was critical of the company's consumer disclosures, oversight and training of agents, claims handling and complaint handling practices. .
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