Beatrice Weston, 20, says she was held captive for a decade by her aunt, Linda Weston who has been convicted of starving to death her sister’s boyfriend. Weston is now suing the city of Philadelphia for placing her with her aunt. A 20-year-old woman whose aunt allegedly beat her and held her captive for a decade in the […]
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After Penn State report, it’s time to look at Second Mile
The following is a PENN STATE report which implicates four powerful men who failed to protect kids as written by Roxanne Jones for the Associated Press. To make a quick summary: She says they worried about money, fame, glory, turned blind eye to childrens’ victimization, and that Paterno was as guilty like rest; the entire Second […]
‘Parent Trigger’ Laws: Shutting Schools, Raising Controversy
In a barebones basement office in Buffalo, New York, Katie Campos, an education activist, is plotting a revolution.
Obama’s Counterterror Czar Steps Out of the Shadows
John Brennan works underground. His basement office in the White House has low ceilings and no windows
Arrest ‘imminent’ in Yale student’s killing, police say
An arrest is “imminent” in the killing of Yale University student Annie Le, a police spokesman said Thursday. Le’s body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building
Police release Yale worker in probe of student’s death
A Yale University employee has been released from police custody after investigators detained him Tuesday night to collect DNA, said a spokeswoman for the city of New Haven.
Copters attack car in Somalia, witnesses say
Helicopters attacked a car and its occupants Monday in the southeastern town of Barawe, Somalia, several witnesses said.
Most dangerous search terms on the Internet
If you like to search for "music lyrics" or "free" things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And "free music downloads" puts 20 percent of Web surfers in harm’s way of malicious software, known as "malware." A new research report by U.S.-based antivirus software company McAfee has identified the most dangerous Internet search words that places users on pages with a higher likelihood of malware. The study examined 2,600 popular keywords on five major search engines — Google, Yahoo, Live, AOL and Ask — and analyzed 413,000 Web pages.
Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta
Oscar Reynoso owed his bosses $300,000, and he was running out of time. Gunmen snatched Reynoso and locked him in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt. He was chained to a wall of the basement by his hands and ankles, gagged and beaten