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Clarke County officials check on sex offenders
Authorities in Clarke County recently completed their first-ever countywide sweep to make sure registered sex offenders are complying with state law. The Athens Banner-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/KTYWIa ) that the Clarke County Sheriff's Office visited more than 100 homes during the compliance check on May 16 and 17. Capt. Jimps Cole ...
Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks
The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of ...
Bosnia couple arrested for allegedly abusing girl
A couple who allegedly beat a young woman while keeping her locked up for years have been arrested in Bosnia, an official said Sunday. The 19-year-old girl was rescued after villagers tipped off authorities that she was being abused, the spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Tuzla, Admir Arnautovic, told ...
Mass. emergency workers learn to recognize autism
Norwood Police Lt. Martin Baker begins his training session with a startling new government statistic: 1 in 88 children in the United States has autism or a related disorder. Then Baker, whose son has autism, tells the class of 25 police officers, firefighters and other emergency response workers gathered at ...
Inmates, corruption rule Honduras' deadly prisons
Inside one of Honduras' most dangerous and overcrowded prisons, inmates operate a free-market bazaar, selling everything from iPhones to prostitutes. It's more like a fenced-in town than a conventional prison, where raccoons, chickens and pigs wander freely among food stalls and in troughs of open sewage. But guards do not ...
Trayvon Martin's parents speak against violence
The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin say there must be an end to "senseless gun violence." The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.ly/LRfFgM ) that they spoke publicly Saturday in Chicago with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and family members of murder victims in the Chicago area. Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton ...
Fla. man charged with attempted murder
A central Florida man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman says he drove up next to her while she was walking and tried to shoot her. The victim said she was walking along the highway with her boyfriend and young son when 20-year-old Malcolm Jamaal Robins pulled ...
Minn. Woman gets 5 years in fatal hit and run
A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crash that killed a 19-year-old. Tiffany Rose Fletcher pleaded guilty Thursday to leaving the scene of a crash involving a death. She was sentenced to five years in prison followed by 15 years' probation. She is also required ...
Woman shot by homeowner faces trespassing charge
A 21-year-old woman who was shot in the hip by a Colorado homeowner after police said she drunkenly wandered into a house now faces a felony trespassing charge, prosecutors said. Zoey Ripple, who graduated from the University of Colorado earlier this month, entered a couple's Boulder home through an unlocked ...
Arkansas hospital to get more time to fix problems
A Little Rock hospital run by the Department of Human Services has been given more time to fix problems with patient treatments before it loses its federal funding. The agency confirmed on Friday that the deadline by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been moved from July 18 ...
Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks
An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the ...
Fla. to review all child abuse deaths
In one year, the number of Florida child abuse deaths dropped 30 percent, from 197 to 136, according to a tally by the state. The dip between 2009 and 2010 seems remarkable, but wasn't due to a massive campaign to prevent child abuse deaths. Rather, it's because the state changed ...
Washington father defends locking up autistic sons
A Washington state man accused of locking his two young autistic sons in a room with a cage-like door says he heard on a television show that it's OK to do so for their own safety. John Eckhart, 31, testified at his trial Friday that he heard on either the ...
Break in Patz brings hope, tears to other families
After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of "closure." Patty Wetterling hates the word. Since 1989, she and her husband have writhed in the same hell as Stan and Julie Patz. Whatever path they might have been on, it was irrevocably ...
Fla baby sitter faces murder in girl's death
A 23-year-old central Florida man has been charged with murder for allegedly throwing a toddler against a bed. Brevard County deputies said Charles Foster became frustrated while babysitting the little girl earlier this week and threw her against the bed, causing severe head trauma. She was flown to the hospital ...
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