At the county jail in Birmingham, meanwhile, a 20-year-old program under which certain inmates were released pending trial, provided they wore electronic monitors and underwent drug tests, has been cut.
An emergency infusion of money from the fund can stave off a pending eviction, provide medication and medical equipment, send children to school in well-fitting clothes, or provide furniture for an empty home.
In fact, said Mika Salmi, chief executive of AtomFilms, which has deals pending to provide some 600 shorts to television, airlines, broadband and wireless companies this year, there's barely enough to go around.
As of 9 March 2011, 113 requests have been approved or are pending to provide biospecimens for such ancillary studies.
While it is pending, Medicaid has provided aid, but she says this must be repaid when the case is resolved.
But Mr. Armstrong's wife, Taylor, is one of the main characters in the series; their marital problems and pending divorce had provided a significant plotline in the show.
But investigators in some of the many agencies involved in the hunt for the suspects, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the pending prosecution, have provided some details.
Federal prosecutors said that the vice chairman, John Marshall, obtained nonpublic information about the pending deal and provided it to two business partners at a financial consulting firm, who also were charged.
The identities of the American casualties were not provided, pending notification of their families.
