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Fast thinking moms stop crimes with kindness

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jul 9th 2008 2:00PM

When you have a guest in your home, Miss Manners says that the polite thing to do is to offer them a refreshment. And though she never said anything about being polite to intruders, two moms recently thwarted intruders by offering their attackers ...
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Crayon fight leads to felony charges

by Sandy Maple, Posted Apr 25th 2008 3:29PM

A second-grader at the Royal Palm Exceptional School in Fort Myers, Florida has been charged with aggravated battery after a violent outburst in the classroom. It all started with a disagreement over crayons and ended with 8-year-old Deshawn Williams ...
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Father acquitted of assault for shoving daughter

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 4th 2008 3:02PM

She was fifteen and rebellious -- much more so than her two older siblings had been. She snuck out, yet again, to meet up with her boyfriend, the drug dealer, and to attend a party with him. Her dad went looking for her and found her at a phone ...
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Zahara Jolie-Pitt result of rape

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 21st 2007 1:18PM

The mother of the two-year-old girl that was adopted by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has come forward to reveal that Zahara was the result of rape. Mentwabe Dawit says that she was attacked at knife-point one evening as she walked home from work. ...
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10-year-old arrested for aggravated robbery of a 6-year-old

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 22nd 2007 3:32PM

What has the world come to when 10-year-olds are pulling knives on 6-year-olds? That's what police in Garden City, Kansas say happened last week in front of Victor Ornelas Elementary School. Picture this: A six-year-old girl waiting for her mother ...
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Update: Baby-flinging mom convicted

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 16th 2007 10:59AM

It's been a year now since Chytoria Graham picked up her four-week-old baby boy and "swung him like a bat" at her boyfriend, the baby's father. The baby suffered a broken skull and airlifted to a children's hospital, but recovered completely. Ms. ...
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Sweaty guy foiled by mom

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 3rd 2007 4:03PM

Sharonda Wilson, a mother of two boys and aunt to four nieces, has been bothered lately by news reports of children being molested. So when she saw two teenage girls being chased by a "sweaty guy" and "screaming their lungs out," she had to do ...
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Wynonna Judd on saving herself and her children

by Sandy Maple, Posted Aug 9th 2007 2:04PM

Wynonna Judd has something to say to women who think their love and devotion can fix a broken man. "... all you women out there who say love can change anything? You know what it can do? It can get you in a lot of trouble," she says. She knows of ...
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Student's mom and sisters storm classroom

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Nov 18th 2006 8:07AM

How many times, as a parent, have you wanted to step in and defend your child? Probably a couple, I bet. But, I can safely assume that you didn't actually step in to defend your child...at school. Unfortunately, one mom and her daughters didn't get ...
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