Month: June, 2008
30 June, 2008 (16:59) | Entertainment, News | No comments
The rate of sexually transmitted diseases in people over 45 doubled over the last decade, researchers found by checking reports from 19 sexual health clinics.
In 1996, the overall infection rate was 16.7 per 100,000 people in that age group. By 2003, it had risen to 36.3 per 100,000 researchers said.
They found 4,445 infections among people […]
30 June, 2008 (16:48) | News, vermont | No comments
RANDOLPH, Vt. — A probe into the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl zeroed in on her uncle Monday, with police searching his home while he was being arraigned on sex charges in an unrelated case, authorities said.
Police said Michael Jacques, 42, of Randolph, had been identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of […]
29 June, 2008 (20:43) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | 1 comment
An Australian woman jailed in 2003 for the sickening “hog-tying” death of her 18-month-old daughter has revealed she is going to be a mother again.
In an interview in Saturday’s Qweekend magazine, Rebecca Mae Haliday, 27, who lives in Victoria and is a free woman after her parole expired in February, speaks of her fears […]
29 June, 2008 (20:37) | News, vermont | No comments
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal grand jury has indicted an Ascutney man on charges that he paid a guard at the Addison County Jail to allow a woman to come to the jail after visiting hours for sex.
Frank Sargent faces three counts of bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. The U.S. […]
29 June, 2008 (20:34) | News | No comments
CLEVELAND — A stroke victim who had gone outside in his wheelchair to get some fresh air at the urging of relatives was struck and killed by a drug dealer’s stray bullet, police said.
Two men were arrested Saturday after one of them turned himself in and provided information about the shooting the night before. […]
29 June, 2008 (20:31) | News | 2 comments
AUSTELL, Ga. — A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area Saturday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said.
Six Flags officials are uncertain why 17-year-old Asia Leeshawn Ferguson of Springfield, South Carolina scaled two six-foot fences and passed signs that […]
29 June, 2008 (09:31) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | No comments
PHOENIX, AZ — A Phoenix father has been indicted child abuse charges for leaving his four young children home alone for nearly 10 hours.
In a news release on Tuesday, the Maricopa County Attorneys Office said a Grand Jury had indicted Carlton Anderson on four counts of child abuse, class four felonies.
The 28-year-old told police he […]
29 June, 2008 (09:23) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments
ST. HELENA, La. — A local police officer was arrested on Thursday and charged with molesting a juvenile and aggravated rape.
St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessie Hughes was arrested as a result of a complaint of an alleged rape of a juvenile, the Louisiana State Police Department said.
Hughes was initially placed on administrative leave […]
29 June, 2008 (09:21) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | 1 comment
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime.
Drug charges against brothers Jose Colon and Maximo Colon, along with two of their friends have been dropped.
The undercover NYPD officers are seen on video dancing in […]
27 June, 2008 (21:33) | News, vermont | No comments
A 12-year-old girl who vanished after being dropped off to meet a friend apparently lied and was actually going to see someone she’d been communicating with online.
The family of Brooke Bennett believes the girl made up the story of accompanying a friend to visit a sick relative in the hospital, police said Thursday.
Instead, she […]
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