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Nebraska Dad Who Abandoned Nine Children is Expecting Twins
Gary Staton dropped off his 9 children last September under Nebraska's Safe Haven law. He still feels it was the right decision. Photo: Jeff Beiermann, The World-Herald Safe Haven laws have been passed in all 50 states since 1999, as a way ...
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Man Sues Ex-Wife for Hiding Voice Recorder in Teddy Bear
Divorce is rarely a pretty thing. Throw in children and custody battles have been known to get pretty ugly (Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, anyone?). Many times, the children end up in the middle, and in at least one instance, so did their ...Family of nine abandoned in Nebraska
A family of nine children, ranging in age from one to seventeen, was left at a Nebraska hospital on Wednesday, thanks in part to the state's unique safe haven law. Generally, such laws are intended to protect newborn infants from being killed or left ...Abandoning your children now legal in Nebraska
Every state in the U.S. now has what is called a "safe haven" law. Intended to prevent unwanted babies from being abandoned just any old place, the law allows desperate parents to leave their babies at hospitals with no questions asked. Until ...
To heck and back
Well, in an interesting turn of fate, just before I found out I had strep throat, my husband's paternal grandmother passed away. This past weekend we piled one of the dogs, the baby, all his stuff and all ours into the car and hit the road once ...
Small schools becoming a thing of the past
In today's super-sized economy, it is hard to imagine that there are still one room schoolhouses out there. Heck, I graduated from high school as one of 804 students in my grade. But, in some rural parts of the United States, schools that have five ...
Teen brings gun to class, accidentally shoots himself
One particularly dumb-ass 10th-grader at Northwest High in Omaha, NE, decided it'd be a good idea to hide a gun in his pocket and bring it to class. It wasn't long before the gun went off, injuring the young man's hand and leg. While it's not like ...











