Former Teacher Indicted After Video Shows Girl Being Dragged By Hair

A Mississippi teacher, fired after a video appeared to show her abusing a special needs student, has been ordered to stand trial.
Washington County District Attorney DeWayne Richardson said a grand jury returned an indictment Monday charging Linda Winters-Johnson, 53, of Greenville, with...

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Doug Bandow: Donald Trump Challenges Washington's Bipartisan War Lobby: Developing a Foreign Policy for America

Donald Trump has become this season’s campaign phenomenon. He’s broken all the rules. Yet he could become the Republican presidential nominee and maybe even president.


GOP elites are in a frenzy. The Neoconservatives and ultra-hawks who have dominated Republican foreign policy...

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Chef Ran Part Of Multimillion-Dollar Drug Ring From Restaurant Kitchen

THE head chef at an exclusive inner-Sydney bar allegedly supplied shopping bags full of ecstasy from his kitchen as part of a multimillion-dollar drug syndicate.





In between serving up $34 plates of pork belly braised in orange, soy and cinnamon and salmon confit at...

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Paul Stoller: The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students

I am back again with more wake-up news about the state of the society you will soon inherit. I don’t know if you’ve heard about yet another incident of hateful violence on one our college campuses–Ohio State. the site of a car ramming and a series of stabbings. As of...

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Tim Knight: Watching the Watchdog: Stats Don't Lie, Political News Falls Short

Tim Knight contributes a regular media column to HuffPost Canada.
Publication: Occupiers and Legislators: A Snapshot of Political Media Coverage Samara Institute.
Date: June 27, 2012
Seems that when you spend an hour watching Canadian TV news stories about politics, you...

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UN Women: Building Hope For Survivors Of Violence In Ethiopia

Crossposted from UN Women.



A survivor at Association for Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) with her child. Photo: Womankind Worldwide/Maheder Tadese
 


“After I came to this shelter, it was like a new beginning. I am back in school and I am a good student. I want to help other gi...

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Another NFL Player Arrested For Domestic Violence

The NFL’s off-field controversies continued on Wednesday when Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was arrested on aggravated assault charges, stemming from two incidents involving a woman and a child.


Citing an unnamed source, Tyler Baldwin of KTVK-3TV first reported that...

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Riley Waggaman: Obama's Hiroshima Visit Will Give New Meaning to Meaningless Publicity Stunts

America’s trusted political pundits are all hot and bothered by Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Hiroshima. Will our Nobel Peace Prize-bedazzled president apologize for his nation’s “pragmatic” decision to drop an atomic bomb on a city with no real military...

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Greater Good Science Center: Can Empathy Improve Policing?

Overall crime rates are down in the United States. But looking at the news, it’s hard to not despair. Police killings of unarmed black citizens makes us question the integrity of our police forces, while retribution killings of innocent police officers make us fear for their safety on...

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Inmate Claims He Was Shot In The Testicles As Payback For Lawsuit

An Edmonton inmate claims he was intentionally shot in the testicles with a rubber bullet over the weekend as payback for a multi-million dollar lawsuit he filed against the Attorney General of Canada.
Shawn Keepness, 31, is one of three inmates who claim to have been kept in...

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Chicago Starts The Week With 14 Shot In 15 Hours

Chicago’s bloody weekend spilled into the workweek, as 14 people were shot in the city over a 15-hour period from late Monday night to early Tuesday morning.
At least six people died. They included a pregnant woman and her mother, who were struck by a “barrage of bullets”...

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Katie Ray-Jones: When It Comes To Consent, There Are No Gray Areas

And our laws should reflect that


Like many people, I was outraged when I heard about the Oklahoma court ruling that was recently in the news. Outraged and disgusted.


In case you missed it, a court in Oklahoma declared that it is not against state law to have oral sex with a person who...

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Well, This Isn't Good For Florida

Florida may be just the fourth most populous state in the U.S., but it contains more of nation’s 100 most dangerous cities — a total of 11 — than any other state, including California (10), Texas (five), and New York (four).


That’s according to...

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Widespread Problems On Rikers Island Tough To Fix

NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Woods shook uncontrollably, his body wracked by convulsions, as fellow inmates held him in their arms and shouted for help.


Amid the chaos inside a Rikers Island dormitory, surveillance video showed a lone figure of relative calm: a guard watching it all unfold as h...

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Woman Shot, Killed After Saying No To A Man's Advances, Detroit Police Say

Police say a man shot and killed a woman after she rejected his advances at an event in Detroit over the weekend. Five people were also injured during the incident.


Mary Spears, 27, was at the American Legion Joe Louis Post No. 375 on the east side of Detroit when the 38-year-old suspect...

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Four UK Men Killed Themselves Over 'Sextortion' Blackmail Scams In The Last Year

Four men killed themselves in the last year after being blackmailed as part of an increasing cyber “sextortion” racket.


International gangs of organised criminals are targeting more and more young men by luring them into potentially compromising positions, the National Crime Agency sai...

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Death Stalks The 'Bourbon Capital'

Anger, confusion and sadness ― and, from officials, silence ― have deepened the mystery surrounding a man’s recent death in Bardstown, Kentucky. The shooting death of the man, whose daughter is a missing person, is just the latest in a series of high-profile tragedies to plague this small to...

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Doug Bandow: Stuck in the Ukrainian Conundrum: U.S. and Europe Need to Drop Sanctions and Negotiate a Way Out

Many Ukrainians expect America and Europe to save them. Suggest that they are living a fantasy gets you tarred as a blatant fool and Russian stooge. Yet Ukraine shouldn’t waste time posing as a fairy tale maiden in distress waiting for rescue by the Western knight in shining armor....

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Armed Man Demands Food From McDonald's, Blames Pregnant Wife

“They had told him the store was closed,” [Scott County Sheriff Rick] Walter said. “He demanded one of the employees to open the window.”


The employee reportedly responded by advising only the manager could open the window.


“He told the employee he wanted...

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Feds and South Carolina Both Want to Execute Dylann Roof

FacebookYesterday the Justice Department further illustrated the unconstitutional absurdity of the federal hate crime statute by announcing that it will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, the man charged with murdering nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June....

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Key To Harper's Tough-On-Crime Agenda Gets Slapped Down

Mandatory minimum sentences are the backbone of the Conservative reforms to criminal law. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)




OTTAWA – An Ontario Court judge has struck down a cherished part of the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda.
Justice Paul...

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Oakland Police Follow Up Internal Sex-Crime Investigation by Launching Anonymous Online System for Reporting Prostitution

Oakland Police Department/Facebook“If you see something, say something” is how The New York Times characterizes an initiative to get Oakland, California, residents to play sex police in their neighborhoods. But a better slogan for the new program might be “do as we say, not...

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Michael Phelps Charged With Second DUI

Decorated Olympian Michael Phelps has been arrested and charged with a DUI in Baltimore after police pulled him over for speeding early Tuesday morning.


Maryland Transit Authority (MDTA) police told WBAL the athlete was driving a white Land Rover at a speed of 84 mph in a 45 mph zone at...

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Gordon Brown: We Must Investigate Russian-Syrian Forces' Role in This Deadly School Bombing

LONDON ― Evidence is mounting of a war crime allegedly perpetrated by joint Russian-Syrian military forces when a school in a rebel-held village of Idlib Province was bombed on Oct. 26, leaving dozens of pupils and teachers dead. The bombing may be the deadliest school bombing since the star...

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The United Kingdom Authorizes Broad Mass Surveillance on Its Citizens

Peter Nicholls/ZUMA Press/NewscomThe United Kingdom’s Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority is not part of an agency tasked with fighting terrorism. They are a licensing body monitoring labor rules in the U.K.’s agriculture industries.
Nevertheless, under a new mass surveillance...

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Alberta Boy Who Died Given Herbs Over Antibiotics, Trial Hears

CALGARY – A seven-year-old boy who was treated with holistic remedies by his mother before he died was riddled with an infection that caused all of his major organs to fail, the woman’s trial heard Tuesday.
Tamara Lovett, 47, is charged with failing to provide the n...

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Rev. Al Sharpton: Reducing Gun Violence and Reforming Our Criminal Justice System Simultaneously

On the premiere of my Politics Nation’ broadcast at its new time (Sundays, 8 a.m. ET on MSNBC) I sat down with Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who touched on a host of issues — including criminal justice reform. As she so eloquently highlighted, police are...

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Nina Flores: La Sierra University Mishandled This Case of Sexual Assault

Tensions are running high at La Sierra University where reports of mishandled campus sexual assaults are flooding a newly created website for survivor stories. La Sierra, a small Seventh-Day Adventist university in Riverside, California, is the latest school to face complaints from students...

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Execution Date Set For Killer Who Dismembered 9-Year-Old Miami Boy

The Governor’s Office announced Thursday an execution date for the convicted killer of a nine-year-old Miami-Dade boy.
Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, is sch…
Read more: Jimmy Ryce, Jimmy Ryce Killer, Juan Carlos Chavez, Florida Death Penalty, Miami News, Miami Crime, Juan Carlos Chavez...

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NY Judge Tried To Get Out Of Drunken Driving Charge: Cops

HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban New York town judge drove drunk, hit another car and then tried to persuade police to let him go because he was a jurist.


Harrison Town Justice Marc Lust was arrested on driving while intoxicated and other charges Dec. 19. Police said his c...

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Another Mistrial In Case Of Officer Who Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old To Death

A mistrial has been declared in the trial of the Detroit police officer who shot a sleeping 7-year-old to death.


The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said that Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway declared a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked. Jurors had...

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Football Abuse Scandal Now Involves More Than 20 Ex-Players

As many as seven professional football clubs are now embroiled in the growing child sex abuse scandal, with more than 20 ex-players alleging they were victims, the head of the players’ union has said.
Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor spoke out as the ...

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Burglary suspect shot, killed by LAPD officer in South Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES >> A burglary suspect was fatally wounded Monday in an officer-involved shooting in South Los Angeles.
No officers were injured in the shooting, which was reported just after 1 p.m., according to Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los...

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Ukraine's Eurovision Win Sparks A Political Uproar In Russia

KIEV/MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) – Ukrainians hailed their country’s unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smoldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics.
Ukrainian singer Jamala...

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Expired Food Found In School Cafeterias

Out-of-date food has been found lingering in public school cafeterias across Massachusetts, sent from warehouses up to six weeks past “use by” dates, the state department of education said on Friday.


Roughly a dozen schools reported expired food shipments or sought guidance...

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Public Library Reports Hate Crimes Against Muslims In Graffitied Books

Books are discussed as emblems for openness, ports in rocky political storms.
So, when librarians at the Evanston Public Library in Illinois discovered that some of their books ― copies of the Quran and other Islam-centered titles ― had been vandalized, they issued a statement and opened an ...

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Prison Population Explosion A Dud: Toews

WINNIPEG – Canada’s prison population has not exploded, contrary to opposition critics’ dire predictions about the government’s anti-crime laws, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday.
The number of inmates in federal prisons as of June 30 stood at...

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English Soccer's Governing Body Launches Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry

LONDON (Reuters) – The English Football Association (FA) has launched an internal review to examine allegations of children being sexually abused at professional soccer clubs.
English soccer’s governing body said on Sunday that it had appointed Kate Gallafent QC as leading independent ...

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Adam Banner: You Can't Have A Mastermind Without First Having "The Brain"

It takes a helluva lot of talent, and/or smarts, to allegedly pull one of the greatest sports fixes of all time. However, it takes even more oomph to never get caught.


Ever heard of the 1919 Chicago White Sox? Yeah, I figured you had. But in case you haven’t, go do a little...

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Danny Postel: Syria's Medical and Humanitarian Nightmare: An Interview with Dr. Zaher Sahloul

Since their days as medical school classmates, Bashar al-Assad and Zaher Sahloul have followed rather different paths: one became a war criminal; the other, a humanitarian advocate.


Dr. Sahloul is the immediate past president of and a senior advisor to the Syrian American Medical Society...

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The Vera Institute of Justice: A new vision for crime victims

By the chairs of the Downstate Coalition for Crime Victims and the Downstate Coalition Racial Justice and Legislative Committees


Christopher Bromson, Erin Eastwood, Michael Polenberg, Kimberly Sanchez, Danielle Sered, and Susan Xenarios


Many actions are taken in the name of crime...

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Edmonton Teen Killed After Being Hit By Bus That Kept Going

EDMONTON – A 13-year-old girl has died in Edmonton after police say she was struck in a crosswalk by a city bus that kept on going.
Police say the girl was crossing the street at an intersection in the city’s northwest on Saturday evening when the bus made a left turn across ...

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Lynn LaPlante Allaway: Let's All Point and Laugh at the NRA

Another mass shooting but I loathe to mention this most recent one by name, since if I leave the specifics out of it, this essay will remain relevant for a very long time. At least until the next mass shooting happens and the one after that, and the one after that. For there will be a next...

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Shanlon Wu: 3 Questions to Ask if Your Student Gets in Trouble at College

Disbelief is the most common reaction parents have to news that their college student is in trouble. Most parents think, “What’s the big deal? We all did silly/dumb/risky things in college.”


Well, that was then–and this is now. Decades ago, colleges often...

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Man Killed At Baby's Baptism Party During Fight Over Food

It was a celebration of new life, but death crashed the party.


21-year-old Wilson Alexis tried to intervene and stop the fight, but was shot twice and died at hospital. As many as 80 people fled the scene, making witnesses scarce.


“I feel sad. I feel so sorry for him,” said...

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Another Arrest In Brooklyn Bridge Attack On Cop During Protest

(Reuters) – A fifth person has been charged in connection with assaulting two New York City police lieutenants during a political demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge last month, officials said on Friday.


Police are searching for the remaining two suspects in the Dec. 13 attack...

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Facebook Fight Allegedly Led To 3-Year-Old's Fatal Shooting

DETROIT — A Detroit Police Academy graduation began on a sorrowful note Friday, as new officers and their families mourned for a toddler killed in an act of “senseless violence” a day earlier.


The ceremony, held at Greater Grace Temple, included a moment of silence for...

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Yasmin Qureshi: Record Suicide Figures Prove That, Under This Government, The Prison System Is Broken

Today the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Centre for Mental Health published a joint report which found that more than 300 people have been killed behind bars in 2016. This is the reality of Tory cuts to our prisons, it is not just felt by prison staff and prison inmates, but by...

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Christopher Zoukis: 'After Life Imprisonment' Examines Re-entry Of Parolees Into Society

Sociologists, criminologists, and other scholars regularly study and debate what works about the American criminal justice system, and what doesn’t. In the current political and social climate, where reform of our ravenously bloated criminal justice system is on the agenda, this...

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John Feffer: The Music of Hopelessness

If foreign policy had a soundtrack, it would be the opposite of easy listening.
Really, could anyone listen to a symphony of war and peace all the way through? In the first movement — devoted to death and destruction and played presto and fortissimo — the electric guitarists step to the fro...

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Guns Blaze After Hamburger-Marijuana Bait-And-Switch

Some meat aficionados would probably say that a great hamburger is better than drugs. And many drug-friendly carnivores would probably say that smoking marijuana makes any hamburger into a great hamburger. But it’s not likely that either cohort would be happy if they ordered hamburgers...

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Sen. Bob Casey Wants to Ban Gun Sales to "Anyone Reasonably Suspected to be Guilty" of Misdemeanor Hate Crimes

Office of Senator Bob Casey / Wikimedia CommonsIn the wake of this past weekend’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) announced in a press release today that he intends to introduce new legislation which “would prohibit the purchase, possession or ...

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Joan Ruzsa: Crime Doesn't Deter Tories -- Nor do Facts

There’s something I don’t understand about us humans. We can cure disease, explore outer space, access information from around the world in a split second and discover the God particle, and yet the best idea we have come up with to respond to crime and...

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Sex Offenders Say Idaho's Retroactive Registration Requirements Are Unconstitutional

Idaho State PoliceWhen Idaho first required sex offenders to register with police in 1993, most of them were not forced to do so for the rest of their lives. But over the years legislators extended lifetime registration to more and more crimes, and today it presumptively applies to all sex...

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Michael Phelps Suspended

Oct 6 (Reuters) – American swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was suspended for six months by USA Swimming on Monday following his recent arrest on a drunken driving charge.


Phelps, who recently returned to top-level competition after a two-year...

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Raghida Dergham: Iran Will Be the First Beneficiary From Trump's Policies in Syria

Raghida Dergham
The US President-elect Donald Trump has caused different kinds of reactions so far: an international keenness to follow up news of his decisions and cabinet appointments, an optimistic surge in the New York stock markets, and deep apprehension among a segment of Americans and...

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The Mexican Town That Kicked Out the Cartels—and Told the Police and Political Parties to Get Lost Too

Almost a thousand miles south of Houston, the Mexican town of Cheran was once afflicted by gangsters who had branched into the timber trade. They killed, they kidnapped, and they kept cutting down trees that they didn’t have a right to take. And so, the BBC reports,
Eneas De...

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Alberta Court Mistake Leads To Change In Double Murder Verdict

EDMONTON — An Edmonton judge has changed his murder verdict to manslaughter in the high-profile case of Travis Vader and the two missing seniors he was convicted of killing.
Lawyers had returned to court to argue about whether there should be a mistrial because Justice Denny T...

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Rasheena Fountain: Empowering Inner-City Youth Through Nature

Stepping foot onto Camp Hastings campground in Lindenhurst, Illinois, in the early 90’s, the crisp fall air comforted and welcomed me like a familiar distant cousin. It was my first time away from home without my parents for an extended amount of time and years since I had experienced...

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Marcia G. Yerman: Sexual Assault on Campus: We Believe You

The Hunting Ground, a 2015 documentary examining rape on college campuses, begins with scenes of ecstatic high school seniors getting into the colleges of their choice.


These clips grimly foreshadow the horrific experience that they will encounter when they join the ranks of the one ou...

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13-Year-Old Allegedly Forced To Dance At South Beach Strip Club

A 13-year-old Miami girl was forced into prostitution and also made to dance at a fully nude strip club on South Beach, according to police.


The girl, identified only as “D.J.,” allegedly went by “Peaches” when she was forced to dance at Club Madonna on Washington...

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ESPN Writer Anxious For Answers In Son's Mysterious Disappearance

Ivan Maisel, a senior writer for ESPN.com, is clinging to the hope that his missing 21-year-old son Max will be found safe.


“We’re scared and we’re heartbroken,” Maisel said at a Wednesday press conference on a pier in western New York, near where his son’s...

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Murder Charges Filed In Death Of 3-Year-Old Shot After Facebook Fight

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Amiracle Williams, a 3-year-old fatally shot last week in Detroit during a fight that reportedly started with a dispute on Facebook.


On Monday, 23-year-old Donnie Everett of Detroit was charged with first-degree murder...

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FA Launches Independent Inquiry After Child Abuse Allegations

The Football Association (FA) has launched an independent inquiry after more than 20 football players have come forward to seek help over allegations of sex abuse.
In a statement on its website, the FA said: “The FA has instructed independent leading counsel Kate Gallafent QC to assist it w...

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Letters To California Mosques Praise Donald Trump, Promise Genocide

Religious leaders in California are calling for a police investigation after identical letters were sent to local mosques hailing President-elect Donald Trump and calling for death to Muslims.
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a...

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Doug Bandow: U.S. and NATO Should End New Cold War With Russia

U.S. and NATO should end New Cold War with RussiaBy Doug Bandow


The NATO-Russia Council recently met in Brussels for the first time in nearly two years. “We are not afraid of dialogue,” announced alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Alas, the talks didn’t get...

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Drunk Man Gives Police Taco Instead Of Photo ID

It happens to the best of us: a few beers in, you pass out clutching a half-eaten taco, sour cream and carnitas crumbs spilling onto your shirt. Hopefully, though, the last time (don’t try and pass it off like it was a one-time thing) you found yourself in this messy predicament, you...

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Kamran Pasha: Muslims Don't Hate American Values, But Some Americans Do

In the new world we live in, we are seeing a steady increase of hate crimes against Muslims in the United States. Even more troubling, I have seen an increasing number of people justify these crimes by claiming that “Muslims hate America for its values” and that we are simply...

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Canada's Crime Rate At Lowest Level Since 1972

OTTAWA – Fewer crimes were reported to police in Canada in 2011 than at any other time in the last 40 years, Statistics Canada said Tuesday — a revelation that comes as political leaders wrestle with how to curb gun violence on the streets of Toronto.
Finding an answer to t...

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U.S. Gymnast Says The Karolyis Ignored Doctor's Sex Abuse

An ex-member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team alleged that coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi ignored that she was being sexually abused by USA Gymnastics’ team doctor and dished out their own physical and emotional abuse at their Huntsville, Texas, training center.
In a lawsuit filed Thur...

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For Battered NFL Wives, A Message From The Cops And The League: Keep Quiet

(Alex Nabaum for The Washington Post)
Whenever Dewan Smith-Williams sees Janay Rice on television, she feels like she’s looking into a mirror. Smith-Williams, 44, remembers the denial, the secrecy, the sense of isolation, the shame. But most of all, she remembers the fear of ruining her h...

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Man Accused Of War Crimes In Somalia Works Security At A U.S. Airport

A CNN investigation found that Yusuf Abdi Ali, who is accused of committing atrocities while he was a military commander during Somalia’s brutal civil war, has been living a quiet life near the nation’s capital for about 20 years.
He is just one of more than 1,000 accused war...

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'For God's Sakes, Someone Speak Up': Missing College Student's Mom

The devastated family of Zuzu Renee Verk, a 22-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished in West Texas three weeks ago, is desperately seeking information on her whereabouts.
“Someone knows something,” Verk’s mother, Lori Verk, told The Huffington Post. “We just want to find her. Fo...

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Racist Alt-Right Posters Shock Edmontonians

Edmontonians were shocked to find racist posters promoting white nationalism posted around the downtown core Monday morning.
The posters proclaimed “It’s Only Racist When White People Do It,” and “Tired of Anti-White Propaganda? You Are Not Alone.”...

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Father Charged After Son, 6, Fatally Shoots 3-Year-Old Brother

A Chicago man is in jail after his 6-year-old son fatally shot his 3-year-old brother with a gun left in the kitchen.
Michael Santiago, 25, was charged with one count of felony child endangerment resulting in death for knowingly storing a loaded firearm on top of the refrigerator at his West ...

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Darius Adams: Dear NCAA: My Mom Is a Sexual Assault Survivor and You Can Help

My name is Darius Adams. I’m the son of Brenda Tracy who is a public rape survivor. It was 2010 when my mom first told me that she was raped. I was 17. We were sitting in our car in our driveway. I remember it because it was a life-changing moment for me. She didn’t tell me...

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Report: 'The First 48' Makes Millions Off Imprisoning Innocents

Taiwan Smart repeatedly said he didn’t commit or witness the murders. The cops didn’t listen.
Marta Xochilt Perez







No one thought twice about the gunshots. It was just before midnight on NW 77th Street in Little Haiti. At that time of night, neighbors would later...

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Missing Mom's Boyfriend: 'They Know Something Happened to Her'

The boyfriend of an upstate New York mother of three who has been missing since last month said police have told him to prepare for the worst.


“The cops sat me down and literally looked at me and said, ‘Don’t plan on her coming home alive,'” Adam Siskavich told The H...

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These Are The Major Cities With The Highest Murder Rates In America

The FBI has released its annual stats for major U.S. cities with the highest crime figures. Topping the list — with far and away the worst murder and violent crime rates — is Detroit.


The bureau on Monday published its 2013 Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which show in...

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The Women Jo Cox Tried To Protect As She Was Murdered Speak Out About Their Friend

Two women who worked with MP Jo Cox and were with her when she was murdered have said they are still trying to cope with the “surreal” loss of their friend.


Fazila Aswat and Sandra Major were leaving a car with the Labour MP for Batley and Spen as she arrived for a surgery in Birstall, Wes...

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Hawthorne teen on way home from church shot to death in Lynwood

A 16-year-old girl riding in a car with her family after attending church was shot to death in Lynwood in what authorities said Thursday was a gang-related shooting targeting someone else.
The victim later was identified as Danah Rojo Rivas of...

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James Sherr: Taking War Seriously: a Russia-NATO Showdown Is No Longer Just Fiction

NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, General Sir Richard Shirreff’s new book, “2017: War With Russia,” is a work of fiction. But its subject — a clash between NATO and Russia as early as next year — is not completely fanciful.


When Russia...

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Two Waffle House Employees Arrested For Armed Robbery Conspiracy

Theft takes a slice out of the bottom line of virtually every restaurant. Waiters and cooks munch on little handfuls of french fries and give free drinks to their friends all the time. But last month, the Waffle House in Richburg, South Carolina fell victim to a far more insidious form of...

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Watch Matt Welch Talk Policing and Black Lives Matter on MSNBC’s AM Joy at 10 a.m. ET

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Joan Ruzsa: Vic Toews and the League of Imaginary Crime Fighters

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So this is rich: the Conservatives are taking credit for the falling crime rate. On July 24, after Statistics Canada reported that police-reported crime was at its lowest level in 40 years, Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews tweeted “Crime rate down 6%...

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Electoral Politics Is a Horrible Context In Which to Talk About Sexual Consent

John Rudoff/Polaris/NewscomWith less than a month left until the 2016 presidential election, the focus has shifted from immigration, foreign affairs, free trade, and other (nominal) questions of policy to whether the Republican nominee is a sexual predator and how much room his opponent has...

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Steenkamp Lawyer: "Justice Was Served"

The parents of Reeva Steenkamp were satisfied with the five-year prison sentence received by Oscar Pistorius, according to a family lawyer. Revealed by Judge Thokozile Masipa on Tuesday in a South African court room, the sentence came several weeks after the double-amputee track star had...

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This African Nation Just Made Legal History For Victims Of Injustice Everywhere

A special court in the West African nation of Senegal reached a historic verdict this week.
It found Hissène Habré, the 73-year-old former president of Chad, guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, rape, kidnapping and sexual slavery. He was sentenced to life in prison.
“Today … will ...

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Get Your Tabloid Television On and Revisit Serial Killers, Karen Carpenter

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People Magazine Investigates: The Long Island Serial Killer. Investigation Discovery. Monday, November 7,...

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Crack Addicts Using Stolen Oilpatch Supplies To Make Pipes

CALGARY – When it comes to protecting thousands of remote oil and gas well sites scattered across Alberta’s prairies and foothills, RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters is more concerned about crack addicts than vandals.
The 854 crimes reported at those sites in the first 10 months of 2...

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NationSwell: This Veteran Refuses to Leave His Unemployed and Debt-Ridden Comrades Behind

This is one of six documentaries on American changemakers produced by NationSwell in partnership with NBCUniversal. Watch them all and vote for your favorite here.


When Eli Williamson returned from two deployments to the Middle East, his hometown of Chicago felt at times like a foreign...

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Did Colombian Hit Men Do It?

MIAMI, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Lawyers for a British man convicted in Florida for a 1986 double homicide sought to reopen the case on Tuesday, claiming that three Colombian drug traffickers were the real killers.


Krishna Maharaj’s lawyers have contended for years that Colombian...

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Steven Brill: Everybody Deserves a Second Chance, Right?

Former U.S. President George W. Bush said that “America is the land of the second chance; and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.” That may soon be true. To those with criminal convictions who have had a difficult time finding a job:...

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Murder Charges For Man Who Allegedly Killed Woman After She Rejected Him

A suspect has been charged in connection with the death of Mary “Unique” Spears, a Detroit woman shot to death after allegedly rejecting the man’s sexual advances.


Mark Dorch, 38, was charged with first degree murder and assault with intent to murder, among other...

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Starbucks Customer "Shocked" After Finding Spy Camera Above Toilets In London

A customer at a south London Starbucks has complained to police after finding a spy camera hidden in an air vent above a toilet 
Ricci Arcari tweeted video of the matchbox-sized device on Wednesday after discovering it behind a grille in the only customer toilet provided at the Vauxhall ...

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Video Shows Cop Punching Woman, But She Gets Arrested For "Assault"

A uniformed Arizona police officer who was filmed punching a woman has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated.
“Our agency is very concerned by what is depicted in this video,” police in Flagstaff, Arizona, said in a Wednesday evening press release.
The foo...

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Kathy Kelly: What"s At Stake

In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, we visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World War II.
Read more: Nuclear War, Cold War, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Crimea, Yalta Conference,...

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Policeman Brings Whopper-Spit Suit To State Supreme Court

Over the past few years, the Washington State Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Barbara A. Madsen, has heard cases involving meth addicts, stolen BMWs, coffee shop burglaries and taxes on cable TV. But if it agrees to hear the case of Edward Bylsma v. Burger King, as the Seattle...

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Mark O"Connell, L.C.S.W.: Tips To Survive Thanksgiving In Post-Election Turmoil

The election will come up at our Thanksgiving dinners.


We will have things to say and questions to ask.


And we will need to feel safe for those necessary exchanges to take place. (None of us can think or speak clearly when in physical or emotional danger.)


But how can we create...

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Senator Mobina Jaffer: Young Criminals Need TLC, Not Tough-On-Crime

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Canada has always been recognized as being one of the safest countries in the world, boasting exceptionally low murder and violent crime rates, particularly in comparison to our American counterparts. However, a recent rise in gun...

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Penn State Whistleblower In Sex Abuse Scandal Awarded $7.3 Million In Suit

A jury in Pennsylvania on Thursday awarded more than $7 million in damages to a former Penn State University assistant football coach who said the school retaliated by firing him after he implicated Jerry Sandusky as a molester of young boys.
The $7.3 million in compensatory and punitive...

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REPORT: Adrian Peterson Seeking Plea Deal In Child Abuse Case

Citing an unnamed source, Michelle Steele of ESPN reported that Peterson will enter a plea Tuesday to a lesser charge than the felony child-abuse charge he is facing in the case in Texas involving a four-year-old son. Also citing an unnamed source, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk reported...

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Tom Engelhardt: Banner Weeks for American War Crimes

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com


If you happen to be a potential American war criminal, you’ve had a few banner weeks. On May 9th, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter presented former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger with the Department of Defense...

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Chris Cognac: Policing In America: Where Do We Go From Here?

This weekend there seemed to be even more violence against police officers than we has become the “usual” or “normal” amount. This Saturday a young officer from my small police department was shot and injured. It just seemed to continue with the assassination of an...

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Hairless Cat Scam Uncovered After Kittens Grow Fur

Shayla Bastarache was looking for a hairless sphynx cat and thought she had found a good deal last month on Kijiji.
A woman was selling sphynx kittens for $650 – less than half the cost from a breeder.
There was no photo with the ad, but Bastarache agreed to meet the seller in a g...

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Tyshawn Lee, 9, Mourned As "Victim Of A Society That Has Lost Its Conscience"

As friends and family gathered Tuesday at the funeral of Tyshawn Lee — one of the youngest Chicago residents lost to gun violence this year — to mourn and remember the boy, Father Michael Pfleger delivered a fiery eulogy indicting the city over the execution of a 9-year-old ch...

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Amelia Roskin-Frazee: Why We Don"t Report It

Content warning: sexual violence and harassment


“Why don’t you report it?”


It’s up there on every list I’ve seen of things you shouldn’t say to sexual assault survivors, yet I keep hearing it.


“Why don’t you report it?” one of my...

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Hollywood Police Discover Untested Rape Kits Stored For Years

Police in Hollywood, Florida have discovered nearly 100 rape kits that have sat untested for years, as first reported by WSVN.


Some of the kits date back “as far back as we could tell, all the way to 2005,” said Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez. “It’s an...

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Aspiring Rapper Gets Life Sentence After Rap Lyrics Used As Evidence

(Reuters) – An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.


Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron,...

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Detroit"s Staggering Murder Rate Is "A Public Health Issue"

Following news that Detroit was exiting bankruptcy and officials talking with optimism about the road ahead, grim new statistics drive home how much there is to do before the city’s future truly appears bright. Detroit has the highest murder and violent crime rate of any major city in...

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Outrage Over Police Dating App Advice After Grindr Serial Killer Case "Failures"

Police have been ridiculed for urging dating apps to take greater responsibility for protecting users in the wake of the Grindr serial killer case where their “failures” have led to more than a dozen officers facing a misconduct inquiry. 
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) made the s...

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Police Explosive Maimed Woman During Dakota Access Pipeline Protest, Witnesses Say

A woman who may lose her arm from an injury she sustained this week during a Dakota Access Pipeline protest was hit by a police concussion grenade, according to two people who say they witnessed the clash.
The witnesses, whose accounts were reported by the Montana Standard on Wednesday, c...

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Dr. Ariel Cohen : NATO Should Stand Up Black Sea Command Before It"s Too Late

At its summit in Warsaw on July 8 and 9, NATO should take urgent steps to protect its allies and partners on its southeastern flank. Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey, as well as Ukraine and Georgia, are all under severe pressure from Russia and require NATO assistance.


Stephen Blank has...

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$119,000 Booze Heist By Moet-Hennessy Manager

Romain Brunot, a brand manager at Moet-Hennessy in the UK, was sentenced to 15 months in prison this week for gradually stealing approximately £75,000 (or about $119,000) of booze from his employer, the Independent reports.


Brunot’s loot came in the form of 400 bottles of Krug and ...

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Against Hate Crimes Laws, for Attacks on Cops or Anyone Else

This morning I appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy to talk about this week’s police/protest controversies. Part of the conversation centered on the role of hate crimes laws, and whether it makes sense to extend their protection to law enforcement, as Louisiana did six weeks ago with its...

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Sukanya Pillay: What to Think About on Prisoner"s Justice Day

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August 10 is International Prisoner’s Justice Day — a day now recognized around the world, but which began in Canada 37 years ago.
On August 10, 1974 a Canadian man, Edward Nalon, died in the segregation unit of an Ontario prison. The...

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Pulp Fiction, Pope Francis Figured In Case of Alleged Foot Fetishist Charged With Child Sex-Trafficking

Is paying a 16-year-old boy to kiss his feet the same thing as forcing children into prostitution? For those connected to reality, the answer should be a pretty obvious no. But for government officials devoted to the idea that America is gripped by an epidemic of sex-trafficking, reality...

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A-Rod Reportedly Confessed Drug Use To DEA

Based on the public statements of all parties involved, Alex Rodriguez would seem to be the person most surprised to learn that Alex Rodriguez confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs as part of the Biogenesis scandal that rocked Major League Baseball.


MLB officials, who initially...

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First Man Convicted Of Sexual Violence In War By Global Court Gets 18 Years

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for heading a 2002-03 campaign of rape and murder in neighboring Central African Republic.
Bemba, a former Democratic Republic of Congo...

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Free State Project Supporter Shot in Fight That Began Over Its Porcupine Flag

A bizarre and disconcerting bit of politically motivated violence, which happened on November 5 pre-election but just came to my attention today: Jarrod Ean-Dixon, a participant in supporter of** New Hampshire’s Free State Project (FSP), was shot multiple times during a conflict that...

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Calgary Police Get Super Serious For Chilling Mannequin Challenge

The mannequin challenge has been dominating our social feeds for what feels like forever, but this is one you won’t want to ignore.
The Calgary Police Service has teamed up with emergency crews and Alberta Health Services to put together the most chilling challenge we’ve...

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Police Investigating After 8-Year-Old Shoots 10-Year-Old Relative

Chicago police are investigating after an 8-year-old child shot a 10-year-old relative Thursday morning. 
Officers responded to a call of a shooting in the city’s South Side Brainerd neighborhood around 9 a.m., according to a Police News Affairs spokeswoman. The 10-year-old was ...

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John Pavlovitz: To Brock Turner"s Father, From Another Father

I’ve read your letter to the judge on behalf of your son Brock, asking for leniency in his rape conviction.


I need you to understand something, and I say this as a father who dearly loves my son as much as you must love yours:


Brock is not the victim here.


His victim is the...

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3-Year-Old Boy Tortured To Death, Police Say

A North Miami toddler’s lifeless body told a tale of torture so harrowing it made a seasoned detective emotional.


Little Ghanson Debrosse, 3, was pronounced dead after being found with indications of severe trauma and sexual abuse at his mother’s home early Tuesday morning,...

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Police Recover Body Of ESPN Writer"s Missing Son

The Rochester Police Department has confirmed that a body found Friday in Lake Ontario is Max Maisel, the son of ESPN writer Ivan Maisel. Max Maisel disappeared nearly two months ago.


“[This is] merely the postscript to our sad story,” Ivan Maisel, a well-known sports writer,...

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10 Most Dangerous Cities In America

The number of violent crimes across the United States is estimated to have dropped by 4.4% in 2013 from the year before, according to data recently released by the FBI. In all, the number of such crimes declined by nearly 15% in the last 10 years.


Putting this drop into context, John...

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Sam Mottahedan: In the US, The Death Penalty Has Now Become A Way of Life - Is There Any Hope?

“To survive, you need to occupy your mind”, Ricardo, an inmate at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Texas’s death row, explains to me from behind the thick, soundproof glass that separates us. He is encased in a claustrophobically small booth and his voice reaches me through a...

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Glendale man arrested, accused of groping Uber driver during ride

A Glendale man was arrested Saturday, accused of sexually assaulting a female Uber driver while he was a passenger in her car, and police are asking other potential victims to come forward.
At about 2 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, the 23-year-old...

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Admiral Jim Stavridis (Ret.): NATO Summit: a Stable Europe Must Include Russia

As the heads of state and government for the 28 members of NATO gather in Warsaw Friday and Saturday, there are choppy waters ahead for the venerable alliance.


At the top of the agenda is the fraught relationship with Russia, which has been especially roiled since the invasion of Georgia...

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This Month In Food Crime

As always, we’d like to suggest that we all take a deep breath and eat the food in front of us, instead of attacking one another with it.


We’re not sure if it’s the heat, drought or something else, but there seemed to be a rash of food-related crimes breaking out this...

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White Jews Have A Duty To Stand With Muslims And People Of Color

There’s been a lot of (justified) outrage about anti-Semitism lately.
Over the past year, anti-Semitic tweeters have increasingly trolled journalists. Last week, Adam Yauch Park in New York City, named for a late Jewish member of the Beastie Boys, was defaced with swastikas. And on Mo...

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Our Greatest Person: Michelle Coombs Of Elizabeth Fry Toronto

Michelle Coombs of Elizabeth Fry Toronto (HO) | HO



For Michelle Coombs, executive director of Elizabeth Fry Toronto, work has always been most meaningful when it has the potential to change someone’s life.
Early in her career, she helped adults with...

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Maile Zambuto: Reflections On Wednesday Night"s SVU, The Stanford Case, And My Own Pursuit Of Justice After Sexual Abuse

Wednesday night’s episode of Law & Order: SVU was one of those “ripped from the headlines” stories. Like many of you who followed the news back in June about Brock Allen Turner’s six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster...

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REPORT: A-Rod Revealed His Urine Test Trick

It doesn’t seem that Alex Rodriguez was afraid to get his hands dirty when it came to evading detection from Major League Baseball’s drug testing policy. The New York Yankees’ PED pariah told Drug Enforcement Administration agents and federal prosecutors that he was...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/report-a-rod-revealed-his-urine-test-trick/

Eisenhower Fellowships: Doctors Without Borders Receives Eisenhower Medal, Pleas for Help

Eisenhower Fellowships recently recognized the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, with the 2016 Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service.



Thank you for this generous introduction, and for inviting me to ...

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Jorge Newbery: "Unfinished Foreclosures" Hinder Housing Recovery

“When I got the offer, I actually cried. When my lender called and said they were willing to work with me, I made up my mind that whatever I needed to do, I was gonna do it.”


Two years ago, Laesther Jones, a single mother of five from Buffalo, New York was diagnosed with...

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Calgary Cancer Faker Also Claimed To Be Wildfire Evacuee

CALGARY – A Calgary woman who pretended to have cancer and claimed to be a Fort McMurray fire evacuee to cash in on donations has pleaded guilty to fraud.
Jennifer Halford, 34, entered guilty pleas on seven counts of fraud Tuesday dating back to the beginning of the year.
Halford c...

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Woman Flips Out Over All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Rule, Police Say

An argument over the meaning of all-you-can-eat has led to assault charges for a woman in suburban Chicago.
Police in Oak Lawn, Illinois, said 27-year-old Natasha West flipped out at a Denny’s restaurant after the waitress told her she couldn’t share her $4 all-you-can-eat...

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NYC Schools Punished Students For Being Victims Of Sexual Assaults, Lawsuit Claims

The New York City Education Department has a pattern of discrediting and punishing victims of sexual assault, particularly if they are black and poor, according to two complaints filed in recent days with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
The complaints w...

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Burglars Hang, Slit Dog"s Throat

FORT LAUDERDALE — The burglary that left philanthropist Elaine Vasquez’s home thoroughly ransacked was bad enough. But that was not the worst of it.


A blood trail led toward a bedroom closet where the homeowner’s pet dachshund, Papi, was found slain, police said. He was...

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Intoxicated School Bus Driver Crashed With 35 Students On Board: Police

A New York school bus driver is accused of drunken driving after crashing a bus carrying 35 students into a telephone pole on Monday.


New York State Police arrested 56-year-old Mary Coletti, of Cortlandt Manor, after the crash. Cortlandt Manor is a hamlet located in the Town of Cortlandt,...

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Detroit Ends 2014 With Fewer Murders, Violent Crimes

Detroit saw a draw drop in most crimes in 2014, with murders down nearly 10 percent and robberies down 33 percent from the previous year.


The Detroit Police Department released its end-of-year crime statistics Tuesday, also touting a 10 percent decrease in non-fatal shootings and...

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Fabric Nightclub To Reopen After Deal Reached With Council

A judge on Monday approved a decision to allow Fabric nightclub to reopen after it earlier reached an agreement with Islington Council. 
The Islington Gazette said judge Robin McPhee authorised the deal at a hearing at the Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court this afternoon. 
Under new reg...

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"Macabre" Tattoo Is Vital Clue In Throat-Slash Slaying

This criminal suspect’s apparent love of tattoos may be his downfall.
Police in Germany who found the body of a 20-year-old woman stuffed inside plastic garbage bags late last month knew someone had cut her throat, but they were unable to determine when the crime occurred. They now believe t...

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It Appears Donald Trump Doesn"t Know About The Crimea Annexation

Donald Trump appears either unfamiliar with Russia’s annexation of Crimea or directly supportive of the intrusion that began in the winter of 2014, further chilled U.S.-Russian relations and has left thousands dead.
In a conversation about Trump’s nebulous relationship with Russian Pre...

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800 Pound Beer-Canning Machine Stolen From Brewery

If you’re about to open up a brewery in Iowa’s Quad-Cities, you might want to keep your receipts for proof of purchase, just in case. That’s because overnight last Sunday, someone stole Great River Brewery’s 800 pound canning line.


Cellarman Tyler Krutzfeldt told...

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Policing Online "Hate Speech" Against Police Following the Dallas Massacre

ERIK S. LESSER/EPA/NewscomTensions are high, people are angry, many are looking for someone to blame, and some of them are lashing out on social media with statements that have been variously described as “hate speech” or “criminal threats.”
In a week where...

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Judge Strikes Down Part Of Tories" 2008 Crime Bill

TORONTO – An Ontario judge has declared another plank of the Conservative government’s 2008 omnibus crime bill unconstitutional.
Superior Court Judge Alan Bryant struck down a section of the Criminal Code dealing with dangerous offenders in a decision published...

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Operation Cross Country X: Everything You Need to Know About the FBI"s Annual "Underage Human Trafficking" Sting In One Chart

The results have been pouring in from Operation Cross Country X, the FBI’s tenth annual, nationwide sex sting targeting what the agency describes as “underage human trafficking.” Each year, FBI agents across America team up with police officers, sheriff’s deputies,...

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REPORT: NFL Player Got Special Treatment After Domestic Violence Accusation

Minutes after Mr. Merling was taken into custody, Stuart Weinstein, the Dolphins’ longtime security director, was working his contacts in the Sheriff’s Office, trying to confirm the arrest and get information on Mr. Merling’s status. At one point, Mr. Weinstein asked a commander who worked si...

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Sabbir Khan: Bangladesh, Even India, Should Follow Europe On Genocide Denial Law

The historical amity between India and Bangladesh came to the fore during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, when people from both countries joined hands against the oppression of an evil, religious force. Apart from the Pakistani Junta, other South Asian countries also joined in...

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Why Did U.S. Marshals Shoot at a Man 76 Times? Don’t Look to Video for an Answer

Family PhotoThe mother of Jamarion Robinson wants to know why U.S. Marshals felt the need to shoot at him 76 times in a deadly encounter in East Point, Georgia, last August.
She’ll probably never get answers she can trust, partly because her son is dead but also because none of the...

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Calgary"s Domestic Violence Rate Soars As Economy Tanks

CALGARY — Police say domestic violence in Calgary is on the rise at least partially as a result of a severe economic downturn that has cost thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industry.
Figures released by the Calgary Police Service Tuesday show officers have responded to 2,796 d...

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This Woman Started A Sex Strike To Help Stop Violence In Chicago

Similar to the premise of “Chi-Raq,” April Lawson from the South Side of Chicago, wants both married and single women to join her in a sex strike until the violence in their city ends.
“In a patriarchal society, a problem will not be addressed until it directly affects...

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Ruth Starkman: Open Letter to Brock Turner

Open Letter to Brock Turner,


Now that social media has judged you much more harshly than the all too lenient court, here are some suggestions for restitution and public service.Given your very short sentence for multiple counts of sexual assault on an unconscious woman last January on the...

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Ex-"Sabado Gigante" Star Makes Strange Request At Child Porn Trial

Adonis Losada once made people laugh whenever he wore a gray wig and granny glasses for his acting role on the popular Spanish-language TV variety show “Sabado Gigante” on Univision.


But now the diminutive comic known as the clumsy abuela Dona Concha wears a blue jail jumpsuit...

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Survival Expert: "Don"t Underestimate" New York Escaped Murderers

Two murderers who’ve eluded capture two weeks after escaping from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York may be hiding in the wilderness, which could give them an advantage over authorities attempting to hunt them down, according to a survival expert.


“There has been a...

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Here"s What Happened When Detroit Youth Got Real With Police

As activists across the country question police tactics and the number of black men and boys killed by cops, a group in Detroit is hoping conversations with officers can begin to heal the mistrust some youth have toward authorities.


More than 50 teenagers, along with their parents and...

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Brit Tourist "Gang-Raped" In Dubai Faces Jail For "Extra-Marital Sex"

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A British tourist who claims she was raped by two British men in Dubai is facing jail after being accused of having sex outside of marriage



The woman was on a five-day break in the United Arab Emirates when she was allegedly lured to a room by the ...

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Texas Police Officer Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop

A San Antonio police officer was shot and killed on Sunday while sitting in a squad car during a routine traffic stop outside the Texas city’s police headquarters, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded when a second vehicle pulled up behind the patrol car, its driver exited and fired two s...

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Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Traveled To Russia Prior To Changes In GOP Platform

WASHINGTON ― Just days before Republicans adopted a new, more Russia-friendly plank into their party platform, one of Donald Trump’s top advisers visited Moscow in July to deliver speeches criticizing decades of U.S. foreign policy.
Global energy investor Carter Page joined Trump’s team in Ma...

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Troy Police Report Food-On-Car Crime Wave

A vehicle on the 2000 block of Avalon was vandalized when someone left bologna and mustard on the vehicle last week, making it at least the third inci…
Read more: Food Crime, Troy Crime Wave, Food Crime Wave, Troy Michigan Food Crime Wave, Troy Michigan, Troy Michigan Crime, Troy...

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Brian Levin, J.D.: Jeff Sessions Will Be In Charge Of Enforcing The Federal Hate Crime Law He Vehemently Opposed

Questions and Controversy Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s new nominee for United States Attorney General, was one of the chief opponents of the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crime Act passed by Congress in 2009 over his vigorous objections. Significant questions...

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New Controversy Over Omnibus Conservative Crime Act

Federal New Democrat MP and justice critic Françoise Boivin is warning of growing tensions between the federal government and the courts, following a series of rulings that saw fit to deem the government’s tough-on-crime agenda unconstitutional, four years after the ...

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Accused Train Masturbator Done In By Own DNA

A registered sex offender is behind bars after his DNA was found on the pant leg of a woman who accused him of masturbating on her.
The alleged incident happened Oct. 6 on the No. 4 train in New York City.
The 41-year-old victim told police that a man later identified as 50-year-old Rodney...

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Dwight Howard Investigated For Child Abuse

ATLANTA, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Authorities in Georgia are investigating child abuse allegations against National Basketball Association star Dwight Howard, a center for the Houston Rockets who is among the league’s marquee performers, police said on Tuesday.


The allegation...

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UN Launches Investigation Into Peacekeepers" Response To South Sudan Attack

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched an investigation on Tuesday into accusations peacekeepers in South Sudan failed to respond properly to an attack on a Juba hotel by uniformed men who killed a journalist and raped several civilians.
Ban...

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Noodle Bar Owner Gives Knife-Wielding Robber A Taste Of His Own Medicine

A noodle bar owner in Brisbane, Australia, fought back when a knife-wielding robber burst into his business and demanded cash.
When the robber handed over a note reading “I have one knife, give me money,” eatery owner Hunter Hu said he pretended to go in the back and fetch his bar’s money box...

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Woman Brutally Attacked In Lethbridge Comes Out Of Coma

Age: 32
Description: Male, Caucasian, 5’9″ tall, 190 lbs., brown eyes, brown hair.
Wanted: Assault with a weapon.
If you have any information about the people listed here, contact Calgary Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or submit a tip anonymously online at...

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Deborah Douglas: Holtzclaw Defense Uses Verbal Tics, Troubled Past, Lack of Education to Deflect and Implicate Witnesses in Okla. Sexual Assault Case

Somebody should be in the courtroom watching out for the interests of the 13 black women who have accused former Oklahoma City policeman Daniel Holtzclaw of rape and sexual assault. Even the prosecution can’t get it right.


Twice last week, accusers appeared in court wearing orange...

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Kicker: Every Major Development in the Stanford Rape Case, in One Place

The Stanford Rapist, Brock Turner. (jocelynbyrd/Flickr)


On January 17, 2015, Brock Turner, then a student at Stanford University, raped an unconscious woman behind a dumpster.


The sexual assault was witnessed by two grad students passing by on bicycles, who tackled the rapist, who...

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Photos Reportedly Show Miami Beach 911 Dispatchers Sleeping At Work

Photos sent to Local10 appear to show several employees slumbering at their desks in November, eyes closed and heads lolling to the side. A retired dispatcher told the station that while forced overtime is the norm, sleeping on the job is “very unacceptable. You never know when...

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Bombs And "Nazi Imagery" Found After Explosion

Authorities in New York say they found white supremacist propaganda in a garage where a former corrections officer blew his leg off last month.
A judge on Wednesday ordered 45-year-old Michael O’Neill held without bond after hearing evidence in the case.
During the detention hearing,...

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Michigan Cop In Violent Arrest Video Previously Accused Of Excessive Force

A Michigan police officer who appears in a recent video punching an unarmed black man more than a dozen times has a record riddled with allegations of planting evidence, falsifying police reports and using excessive force.


Dashcam video from January released by Click on Detroit last week...

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Twickenham Road On Lockdown After Man Hurls Bricks At Police From Roof

A man reportedly throwing bricks from a roof is in a stand-off with police.
Officers were called to Heath Road in Twickenham, south-west London, shortly before 5am on Saturday and found a man, in his 30s, with a head injury.
After they arrived a man climbed on to the roof of a building and...

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