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California teens drug parents' milkshakes, sneak web time: police

Olsen Ebright
NBC Los Angeles
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:58 UTC
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Daughter described family's Internet policy as "too strict," say investigators

Two Northern California teenage girls are accused of spiking milkshakes with prescription sleeping medicine to knock out the parents as part of an alleged conspiracy to skirt the family's ban on home Internet use after 10 p.m., according to police.

The incident happened on the evening of Dec. 28 in Rocklin, Calif., a city of about 60,000 people approximately 21 miles northeast of Sacramento.

"The 16-year-old daughter and her (15-year-old) friend were at a house in Rocklin and they say, 'hey mom and dad, how about we get you some milkshakes?' They go to a local fast food restaurant and get some milkshakes," Rocklin Police Department Lt. Lon Milka said Thursday.

The teens then allegedly spiked the shakes with some sort of anti-anxiety medicine, Milka said.

The parents finished about a quarter of the milkshakes -- which "tasted funny" and had a "gritty feel" -- before pouring them out, Milka said.
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Psychopaths in our midst: Indian politician beaten by villagers after 'entering a woman's home and raping her at 2am'

Sean O'hare
Daily Mail
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:39 UTC
Pictures have emerged of a leading Indian politician being beaten by villagers after allegedly raping a woman in her home at 2am.

Congressman for Assam's ruling party Congress, Bikram Singh Brahma, allegedly raped a woman at Santipura village in lower Assam's Chirang district before being caught by villagers today.

It is another shocking sex crime against a woman in a country that is trying to come to terms with the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old student last week, for which six men currently face trial.

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Member of Assam's ruling Congress party Bikram Singh Brahma is attacked following rape allegations.
'People raised an alarm late last night after Congress leader Bikram Singh Brahma allegedly raped a woman,' Chirang Superintendent of Police Kumar Sanjeev Krishna told the Deccan Chronicle.

He is said to have been visiting the village of Santipur on the Bhutan border when he entered a woman's house and raped her.

Brahma, who is the Baksa district Congress Committee chairman and Congress coordinator of Bodoland Territorial Council, was then beaten up by men and women who ripped his clothes off.

He was later handed over to the police who arrested him,Superintendent Krishna said.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, said anyone found guilty of the heinous crime 'would not be spared, whether he is Congressman or not.'

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© APPolice said Brahma was visiting the village of Santipur on the Bhutan border when he entered a woman's house and raped her at 2am.
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© APIn a sign that attitudes might be changing since the rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, police have arrested Brahma.
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Murder charges are filed against 5 men in New Delhi gang rape

Gardiner Harris
NY Times
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:11 UTC
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© Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesIndian lawyers protested on Thursday outside a court in New Delhi where charges were filed in a gang rape case.
Rape, murder and other charges were filed on Thursday against five men suspected of carrying out the gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who later died of her injuries in a case that has prompted outrage and protests across India.

A court official announced that beyond rape and murder, the charges include destruction of evidence and the attempted murder of the woman's companion, a list of crimes that could result in the rare imposition of the death penalty. A court official said the charges would be made public on Saturday. A sixth suspect is a juvenile and will have his case handled separately for now.

The case against the five men will be referred almost immediately to a new fast-track court set up in recent days to handle cases involving crimes against women, officials said. That court is expected to hold a trial soon in stark contrast to the apathy and years of delay that Indian rape victims often face when seeking justice.

The five are accused of luring the woman and her boyfriend onto a bus in South Delhi, beating them and abusing her so brutally with a metal rod during the rape that she sustained fatal internal injuries. The woman clung to life for two weeks but died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital, where she had been transferred for special care.
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Detroit mother charged with murder, child abuse in stabbing death of 8-year-old daughter


Washington Post
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:39 UTC
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© AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. JacksonIn this photo taken Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, Dornecia Helms, of Detroit places up balloons on the door step of an eight year-old stabbing victim Tameria Greene at the Martin Luther King Apartments, in Detroit. Semeria Greene was charged Wednesday with felony murder in the stabbing death of her daughter Tameria Greene, at their Detroit home just days before the girl's 9th birthday.
A 26-year-old woman was charged Wednesday with felony murder in the stabbing death of her daughter at their Detroit home just days before the girl's 9th birthday.

The mother, Semeria Greene, was also charged with one count of first-degree child abuse. Greene's four young sons have been turned over to Child Protective Services, police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said.

Neighbors called police to the Greene family's apartment just east of downtown in the early hours of Sunday morning. Officers arrived to discover Tameria Greene bleeding and unresponsive on the floor. She had been stabbed in the chest with a knife and was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Semeria Greene was taken into custody.

"This is only the second day of the year and we are charging a parent with a child homicide," said Kym Worthy, county prosecutor. "This case is made even more profoundly sad because today would have been Tameria's 9th birthday."

Her slaying came at the end of a particularly brutal year in Detroit. By Thanksgiving, the city had surpassed the 344 homicides reported in all of 2011. As of Dec. 16, the city had recorded 375 murders.
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Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement

Jacob Devaney
Huffington Post
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:34 UTC
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Flashmobs with dancing and drumming at a malls in Olympia, Wash. Tempe, Ariz., Denver, Colo., a giant circle dance blocking a large intersection in Winnipeg, rail blockades in Quebec, this movement is using cultural expression combined with modern activism to get attention, and it is working. From their website, "Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water."

Idle No More was started in October by four ladies; Nina Wilson, Sylvia McAdam, Jessica Gordon & Sheelah McLean who felt it was "urgent to act on current and upcoming legislation that not only affects First Nations people but the rest of Canada's citizens, lands and waters." On December 11 Attawapiskat Chief, Theresa Spence, launched a hunger strike requesting a face-to-face meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss broken treaties and protection of natural resources. Spence is staying in a tipi on the frozen Ottawa River facing Parliament Hill and has gained the support from many natives and non-natives who are in solidarity with this movement.
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Man attacked by coyotes in Washington State


Huffington Post
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:32 UTC
Three coyotes attacked a Washington man in his own backyard last week, prompting officials to warn people who are vulnerable to encountering potential "urban coyote issues" to be more vigilant.

According to Q13Fox.com, Faron Scarberry of Kent, Wash., was ambushed by the three coyotes last Friday while he was out with his dog in his backyard.

"They were coming around the bush and I guess they were going after my puggle," Scarberry, whose house is located close to a school, told KCPQ-TV.

"One of them lunged up toward me and I kind of pushed it away with my hand and its front claws scratched my hand and wrist," Scarberry said of the encounter. "Then one of the grabbed me by the pant leg and started shaking my leg so I just started kicking and hitting at them to get them off of me and they ran back under the fence."

Following the attack, Scarberry rushed to the emergency room, where he was treated for a coyote bite and scratches. He reportedly got 24 rabies shots in his leg and two in his hip.
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Breeder Abby Conder says man sexually abused her miniature horses

David Lohr
Huffington Post
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:23 UTC
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Joy, a 2-year-old horse, was the first animal attacked and injured at Abby Conder's farm.
An owner and breeder of world-class miniature horses in Florida is hoping video surveillance footage will help identify the person suspected of sexually assaulting several of her horses and killing her watchdog.

The sexual assaults have been ongoing since May 2012, according to Abby Conder, of Marion County.

"Since May, we have had someone come into our barn on several occasions in the middle of the night and take our miniature show horses and sexually attack them," Conder told The Huffington Post.

On Sunday, Conder got her first glimpse of the apparent perpetrator when she reviewed video footage from inside her barn recorded earlier that morning.

"Someone's got to know this man," Conder said. "He's been in this area at least eight months now. These are babies I have raised and it's affected them psychologically. It's hard to get in a stall with them and I can't get near their rear ends to put a harness on them."

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Paraguay police arrest 4 alleged parrot smugglers with 211 wild birds, many taken from nests


The Republic
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:13 UTC
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© AP Photo/Paraguay's Environmental MinistryIn this Dec. 15, 2012 photo provided by Paraguay's Environmental Ministry, rescued Blue-fronted Amazons parrots, whose scientific name is Amazona aestiva, are taken from a box by veterinarian Carlos Britos, right, at the Teniente Agripino Enciso National Park in Paraguay on the border with Bolivia border
Police have rescued 211 protected parrots taken from the remote forests of Paraguay, and made four arrests.

Veterinarian Carlos Britos of Paraguay's environmental ministry identifies the rescued birds as blue-fronted Amazon parrots, whose scientific name is Amazona aestiva. He says many are still juveniles and were taken from their nests.

He said Wednesday that the birds are being cared for by government biologists in a national park, and will be returned to the wild once they can fly.
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6 year-old suspended for pretend gunshot

Matt Connolly
Washington Examiner
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:21 UTC
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A Montgomery County elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot a week after Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The 6-year-old, who attends Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, made a gun with his hands, pointed it at another student and said "pow," according to Robin Ficker, the boy's attorney. He was given a one-day suspension, with a conference on the matter planned for Jan. 2, the day students return to school from winter break.

"What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old," Ficker said. "This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that."

According to a letter sent by Assistant Principal Renee Garraway to the child's parents, this was not the first time something like this had happened.

"Your son ... was involved in a serious incident," Garraway wrote. "[He] threatened to shoot a student. He was spoken to earlier today about a similar incident."

Ficker said the boy's family was never told about any previous issues. "They won't say what the similar incident is," Ficker said. "It just shows the overreaction."
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Woman dies on plane from Brazil to Texas


Global Post
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:57 UTC
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A passenger died aboard an American Airlines flight to Texas. The passenger, a 25-year-old woman, showed no signs of trauma, the Associated Press reported. The flight was diverted to Houston after her death.

American Airlines officials said the flight later continued to Dallas, its original destination, The Houston Chronicle reported.
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