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U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Authorities who took 220 women and children from a polygamist compound weren't sure whether the teen girl whose phone call prompted the raid was among them. State troopers raided the 1,700-acre West Texas ranch on Friday to look for evidence that the t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Don Imus returned to the airwaves Monday — eight months after his firing for racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team — by introducing a new, diverse cast that included a black woman. As he did several times in the days a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:33pm neoform

FOX News -- A 41-year-old man stormed a beauty salon and bludgeoned four grandmothers with a hammer, fracturing one's skull, before making off with less than $90, police said. Thomas Leyshon III, of Mountain Top, was arrested after a daylong manhunt Friday. The.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 12:15am neoform

desmoinesregister.com -- A Detroit man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for trying to burn down a women's health clinic that he mistakenly thought performed abortions. David McMenemy, 46, pleaded guilty in January to arson against a business affecting interstate co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell will be fired. Norberto Cappas, 32, was found guilty by a police tribunal of conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation, the department said Tuesday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that women who are forced to abort their pregnancies by governments such as China's can be awarded asylum in the United States. Courts previously have allowed victims of forced sterilization to seek asylum here... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

USA Today -- A nursing student told women he met on an online dating site that he was a doctor, an astronaut or spy in a ruse to lure them out so he could drug and rape them, a prosecutor said Monday. Jeffrey J. Marsalis, the 34-year-old on-and-off student, met six.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

USA Today -- It's gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people. Only 25% of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 8:52pm neoform

FOX News -- Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire's Irish Pub have played jokes on customers for years — sending women to the men's room and vice versa. But the father of a girl who was interrupted by a man in the women's room and Florida's Department.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

FOX News -- A millionaire couple were arrested on federal charges that they kept two Indonesian women as slaves in their swank Long Island home for more than five years, beating and abusing them and paying them almost nothing. Authorities uncovered the alleged abu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 9:52pm neoform

SF Gate -- Two women in their 70s pleaded not guilty Thursday to drugging two transient men and killing them with a car so they could collect nearly $3 million in insurance money. Helen Golay, 76, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 74, pleaded not guilty before Superior Cou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- This was supposed to be a big week for Anand Jon. The fashion designer, who earlier this year was on Newsweek magazine's list of people to watch in 2007, was about to unveil a new line during L.A. Fashion Week. Instead, the headlines are focused on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Cobb County police tell CNN that the two women they picked up and questioned earlier Thursday in connection with a bank robbery have been arrested. Dubbed the Barbie Bandits, the two young women are believed to have robbed a supermarket bank branch and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 1:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces. The two handed a Bank of America branch t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 2:16am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- In an experiment that's opening a new front in the culture wars, a growing number of states are paying antiabortion activists to counsel women with unplanned pregnancies. At least eight states — including Florida, Missouri and Pennsylvania — use pu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 20, 2006 @ 12:38pm mrmdc

CNN -- More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Three women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to child abuse and other charges involving a 5-year-old boy who was burned, starved and beaten. A Superior Court commissioner received the pleas in an abuse case against the boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

SF Gate -- A 37-year-old chiropractor accused of drugging two women in Antioch and sexually assaulting one of them surrendered Thursday, a day after he called one of the victims in an apparent attempt to intimidate her, police said. Accompanied by his attorneys,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A jury that returned five guilty verdicts against two elderly women in the murder-for-profit deaths of two homeless men still has work to do. Helen Golay, 77, was found guilty Wednesday of the first-degree murders of Kenneth McDavid, 50, in 2005 and Pa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 14, 2008 @ 10:59pm neoform

CNN -- Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chinese leader Mao Zedong made what Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, Chinese women to the United States. "You know, China is a very poor country,.. Read More