Category: ‘Odd Blends’
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Staff Sgt. Christopher Barberi, a U.S. Army Europe non-commissioned officer, was sentenced Friday for sodomy of a minor and possession of pornographic photos of the girl following conviction on 2 July. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Barberi allegedly committed statutory rape of the young girl from the time ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
chicago sun times: With an out-of-control car bearing down, Joseph Richardson grabbed his 4-year-old daughter and held her up out of harm's way.
It was his last act -- and one that apparently saved his daughter's life.
Richardson, a 39-year-old father of three, was killed Monday evening by the car, driven by ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Austria
Police in the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten have arrested a 73 year old man who is alleged to have kept his daughter, now aged 42, locked in the cellar of his house in Amstetten since 29th August 1984.
The man, identified by police as "Josef F.", is alleged to have ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
133 women and 401 allegedly abused children have been taken into state custody after officials received a call from a distressed 16-year-old girl in Eldorado, Texas (160 miles (260km) northwest of the Texan town of San Antonio). The children were found in a 1700-acre compound belonging to the Fundamentalist Church ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
cnn.com: ALTON, Illinois (AP) -- Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 82 U.S. youths have died since 1995 engaging in "the choking game" in which they try to experience a fleeting "high" by cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
An unknown number of youths, mostly boys, ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
newsWeek.com: Hustler magazine and Wal-Mart haven't had much in common over the years. After all, the megaretailer won't even carry Hustler's explicit publications. But now they have at least one area of overlap. As of this month, Wal-Mart will be selling Wet, a sexual lubricant that has been a ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
msnbc: BEIRUT, Lebanon - A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Apparently the drug bust netted a few extra items:
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
bbc news: An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing in the Irish Republic after a pilot apparently suffered a breakdown.
A passenger said the pilot was carried from the plane shouting and swearing, saying he wanted to talk "to God".
The flight from Toronto to Heathrow landed at Shannon airport ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
cnn.com: BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A former priest began a seven-year jail term Wednesday for murdering a young nun during an exorcism ritual when she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days.
Irina Cornici, 23, died from dehydration, exhaustion and suffocation during an ordeal ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
careFair.com: Is this really something that you should be concerned about? Apparently so. Cell phones have been proven to emit a form of radiation that has led to health problems such as infertility and brain injury. While the proof is scant, studies are leaning toward the damage risks being ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
nyTimes.com: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Wayne Spath is a bail bondsman, which means he is an insurance salesman, a social worker, a lightly regulated law enforcement agent, a real estate appraiser — and a for-profit wing of the American justice system.
What he does, which is posting bail for people ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
pajamasMedia.com: No orgasms for you, you naughty, wicked hussy of a child.
In the article, an Italian physician who is also a World Health Organization official states: “To judge them (the female mutilators) “harsly is to isolate them. You cannot make change that way. These mothers believe they are doing something ...
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