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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

SF Gate -- Carlos Sousa Jr.'s parents watched news coverage of the gruesome Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, but had no idea one of the victims was their son. "Someone called their house this morning," Patricia Fagunves, the teen's cousin, sai.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Army has asked Loudoun County public schools to distribute a survey to help identify students interested in the military, a proposal some parents contend would give the armed service an unfair recruiting edge over colleges and other career paths. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 4:47pm mrmdc

CBS News -- Do parents have the right to spank their children? It is a controversial issue, and while a Bay Area lawmaker wants it addressed in Sacramento -- a majority of those surveyed for a new CBS 5 poll expressed opposition to a spanking ban... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 17, 2007 @ 9:38am mrmdc

SF Gate -- Answering her doorbell just after 10 p.m. Friday, Mary Jo Cooney looked through her peephole in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood and saw nothing... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

Times Online -- Seattle parents instructed doctors to remove their daughters uterus, appendix and still-forming breasts. This will stunt her growth making it easier to take care of her in the future... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 4, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Just a fraction of the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch remain in foster care after parents traveled this sprawling state to reunite their families. By Tuesday, 397 children had been returned to their parents, leaving just a few dozen of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Children from a polygamist sect were the only subjects on the docket Monday at a west Texas courthouse where five judges began handling hundreds of hearings that attorneys for the children's parents decried for their cookie-cutter approach. State child.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 4, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A 15-year-old boy fatally shot his parents and two younger brothers as they slept, then spent more than 12 hours with friends before returning home and calling 911 to report that his father was dead, police said Sunday. Police went to their suburban Ba.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 9:40am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The 15-year-old O.C. boy had run away from his parents and was dashing through traffic, authorities said. Orange County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday defended their decision to use a stun gun on a 15-year-old autistic boy who ran away from his parents.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 12:43pm neoform

USA Today -- Pamela Moss worships every Sunday at Messiah Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., where they preach the Bible straight up, sing the old hymns "and then let me get on with my day." But her son, George, 24, is a fervent Evangelical, witnessing to stran.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

Washington Post -- When police showed up recently at a Walt Whitman High School graduation party, three young people were drinking in a vehicle parked outside the Bethesda home. Then three more teenagers walked up with a six-pack in a bag. While the police were dealing with.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:38pm neoform

FOX News -- A high school student broke into a Lancaster home last month to kill a classmate and went on to slay both the teenager and his parents, police charged Saturday. Alec Devon Kreider, 16, of Lancaster, was arrested after his father told police that he had.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:03pm neoform

FOX News -- An Illinois man was found guilty Thursday of killing his parents and three teenage sisters at their southeastern Iowa home last fall. Judge Michael R. Mullins read the verdict in Van Buren County District Court. The courtroom was packed with about 100.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that parents of disabled children do not have to hire lawyers to sue school districts when they attempt to ensure that their children's special needs are adequately met. The court found that the federal Individuals Wit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 3:57pm neoform

SF Gate -- While the parents of the Virginia Tech gunman have kept silent and out of public view, his uncle met with an official from a Korean-American association and said he assumes the parents are doing fine. The chairman of the Korean-American Association of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 6:08pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Some parents are protesting the "sex" edition of the student newspaper at Winnacunnet High School. Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, "Why men love women who love women," a quiz question abo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

FOX News -- A possible serial predator who stakes out children’s homes, waits for their parents to leave, then attacks his young victims, is being hunted by police in Arizona. The female victims are raped in their bedrooms and foyers, police said. The attacker c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 25, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

USA Today -- Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support. The idea came to Cynthia Brown, executive director of the Butler County Chil.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 2:54pm neoform

CNN -- A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside. Glynn County District Attorney Stephen D. Kelle.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 11:20pm neoform

CNN -- Police on Wednesday named a convicted sex offender, his parents and a family friend as suspects in the disappearance of a Georgia boy, 6, who has been missing since last week. George Edenfield, his parents David and Peggy Edenfield, and family friend.. Read More