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6-Year-Old Misses School Bus, Takes Family Car Instead

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 7th 2009 10:00AM

I guess the range of maturity for six-year-old kids is pretty broad. On one end, you have a kid who turns to mom for some breastfeeding when life gets rough. On the other end, you have a kid who looks a problem in the face and comes up with a ...
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Puppies Save Boy Lost in Forest

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Dec 8th 2008 2:00PM

When three-year-old Jaylynn Thorpe wandered away from his babysitter last Friday night, his grandparents (who are also his guardians) were frantic ... with good reason. With winter-like temperatures dipping into the teens, they knew that a helpless ...
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Don't french kiss kids in Virginia

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 10th 2008 1:01PM

I'm not sure what's more disturbing -- that french-kissing a ten-year-old was not a sex crime or that Virginia needed to pass a law to make it so. Whatever the case, legislators there passed a new law that would make it a misdemeanor for an adult to ...
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State courts differ on rights of lesbian moms

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Jan 17th 2007 10:01AM

Two lesbian former partners are battling out child custody in court after their civil union failed. The two women were partners and conceived baby Isabella through artificial insemination after their 2002 civil union. The birth mother, Lisa, ...
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What NOT to say to a pregnant woman

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Dec 5th 2006 10:04AM

I can't help but love a pregnant woman that is so sick of insensitive things said by strangers that she writes the local newspaper. Seem a bit crazy? Perhaps, but that's exactly what a pregnant Virginia woman did. In the letter addressed to "Dear ...
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Vengeful dad ruins football for everyone

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Nov 7th 2006 3:36PM

Next time you lead your son or daughter's sports team to a dramatic overtime victory, watch your back. You might get fired. That's what happened to James Owens and Bill Burnham, coaches of the South County Raptors -- a football team of 12 to 14 ...
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