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Pompano man accused of rape of 82-year-old woman
South Florida Sun-SentinelPolice have identified an accused rapist they arrested on a docked boat as James L. Carris, 53, of Pompano Beach. Carris, who was arrested Monday, has been charged in the Nov. 5 rape of an 82-year-old woman who was an acquaintance, police said. The...Tags: Police, Rape, Sexual Assault, Migration, Fort Lauderdale
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Man charged in sexual battery of 14-year-old
A 43-year-old man from Newport News has been charged with sexual battery following allegations he tried to kiss a 14-year-old girl and touched her buttocks. Hampton police spokeswoman Cpl. Paula Ensley said the girl told her parents Gregory Wright of...Tags: Prosecution, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Sexual Assault, Crimes
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AP Exclusive: DCFS suspends job seeker drug tests
AP Political WriterIllinois' child-welfare agency, looking for savings amid a budget crunch, has stopped a 10-month-old employee drug testing program officials say kept five dozen substance users from jobs that could have put them in contact with the state's most vulnerable...Tags: State Budgets, Health and Safety at Work, Defense Equipment, Government, Unions
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Judge: Suit against Green Bay diocese can proceed
A lawsuit filed by two sexual abuse victims against the Green Bay Catholic Diocese survived a test Monday when a judge ruled it may proceed under fraud statutes. Outagamie County Circuit Judge Nancy Krueger denied a motion by the diocese for dismissal...Tags: Corporate Crime, Trials, Fraud, Sexual Assault, Local Authority
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Solace, for some, is set in stone
Oakland's new Cathedral of Christ the Light stretches skyward, sheathed in gleaming glass that reveals a delicate skeleton of wood and steel.
Terrie Light has spent more than three years thinking about the elegant structure. She has attended more...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Sexual Assault, Migraine, Massacres, Jesus Christ
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Pakistani-German charged with al-Qaida membership goes on trial in Germany
KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) _ A German man of Pakistani heritage went on trial Monday on charges he raised money and recruited people for al-Qaida. Aleem Nasir faces a possible 10 years in prison if convicted of membership in a terrorist organization. Nasir,...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Prosecution, Terrorism, Trials, Prisons
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For U.S., escape from Guantanamo won't be easy
The cell resembled your average prison quarters in America, as far as I could tell. Concrete walls, a cot, standard-issue toiletries. Except through a narrow slit of a window facing south you can see the warm Caribbean Sea. And in the hallway nearby,...Tags: Terrorism, Wars and Interventions, Court Administration, Government, Local Authority
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New Haven officer sued over police brutality
Associated Press WriterA New Haven police officer is facing two federal lawsuits accusing him of brutality and an illegal strip search, while records show he has been subject to a history of complaints of excessive force. Union officials call Officer Dennis O'Connell "a...Tags: Police, Civil Laws, Law Enforcement, Crimes, James Lewis
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AG sounds off on voter lawsuit, rest of term
Associated Press WriterRepublican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen spent most of his first year in office keeping a low political profile -- so low that some in his own party wondered whether he was really one of them. Not so in 2008. Van Hollen threw himself into the...Tags: Sexual Assault, Government, Economic Policy, Budgets and Budgeting, Trials
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UN-backed forum says sex tourists should face crimes at home for child abuse abroad
Associated Press WriterSAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) _ Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax penalties, participants at a U.N.-backed conference concluded...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Juvenile Delinquency, Rape, Sexual Assault, Government
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Prevent the next tragedy
On Nov. 17, Veronica Williams, 28, entered a Baltimore City District Court in an effort to break a cycle of domestic violence at the hands of her spouse. She secured a restraining order and exited the courthouse. A few moments later, her husband...Tags: Society, Prosecution, Social Services, Business Enterprises, Court Administration
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Bush setting land mines on way out
You knew that W & Co. wouldn't go gently into that good night, didn't you? Please. We're talking about the people who brought us precooked intelligence, Guantanamo, torture and extraordinary rendition. Who developed bizarre legal doctrines, asserting...Tags: 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, Fishing, Election Day, Personal Weapon Control, Health and Safety at Work
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