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It destroyed the fire station and blew away the roof of the town hall, where 69-year-old Mayor Douglas Gunnin survived to continue serving the town's 1,500 constituents.
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Reporting from Hackleburg, Alabama - The tornado that destroyed Hackleburg attacked the little town's first line of defense.
It leveled the town's tiny police station and crushed the police cruiser of Officer Jeremy Marbutt, who emerged unscathed after taking cover in the old town jail, built of steel and concrete.
It destroyed the fire station and blew away the roof of the town hall, where 69-year-old Mayor Douglas Gunnin survived to continue serving the town's 1,500 constituents.
It destroyed the fire station and blew away the roof of the town hall, where 69-year-old Mayor Douglas Gunnin survived to continue serving the town's 1,500 constituents.
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A 2-year old girl was raped by boys 7 and 9 and have been removed form their homes
A 2-year old girl was raped by boys 7 and 9 and have been removed form their homes
They are freshed-faced little boys who should be busy playing their video games and little league. To look at them you would never begin to imagine what they are capable of. Two young boys, age seven and nine, admitted that they raped a two-year old little girl.
After a trial last month in which the boys both pled guilty to the sexual assault, the controversy begin of what to do with the boys. Psychologist Dr. Charlotte Freeman has worked with children for more than 15 years and said it's not uncommon for young children to be curious about their body or the body of others. "As children grow they may encounter and engage in sexual play but as they get older, when we look at children who have an age gap of more than five years then we start to consider other issues in terms of what they have been exposed to. Children will have sexual play but as they grow older and the dynamics is different in terms of their age we start to consider another avenue," said Freeman.
But when it comes to the act of rape where penetration is involved, that is cause for serious alarm. That is not normal behavior for children of this age. "That's when you should really be concerned when you see children who are inserting objects into other kids, when you see when there is constant touching of other kids. That's when you should really be concerned," said Freeman.
Samantha Salaz, age 19, accused of trying to drown her toddler in toilet. Photo via Colorado Springs Police Department.
Two women have been taken into custody and held at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado, accused of trying to drown a 20 month old toddler girl. One of the women is reportedly the toddler's mother, Samantha Salaz, 19 and the other is a caregiver, Mary Horsley, 50. It is not yet known Horsley's relationship to the victim or her mother. One of the women apparently called police to report that the toddler may have drowned in the toilet. When police arrived, they found the unconscious tot who was brought to a local hospital and admitted into the pediatric ICU.
According to police, the toddler's body showed numerous signs of abuse as reported by the Denver Post. It was later determined that the baby had been severely abused and the near drowning incident was likely a botched attempt at murder. Police arrested the two women on felony child abuse charges and attempted murder. Both women are held on $500,000 bonds and have a preliminary court date today at 1:30pm in Colorado Springs.
The Gores have been charged in felony child abuse and now murder over the body of a child found in their yard, photo via
Police were responding to a home in Gloucester, VA on a burglary call, instead what they found caused Gloucester Sheriff's Maj. Darrell Warren to remark; I've done this for 20 years, and I've never seen anything like this in my life."
What authorities found when entering the home was a little girl, perhaps 5 or 6 trapped in a crib, as though it were a jail cell. There was a heavy piece of wood on the top of the crib in an apparent attempt to prevent her from escaping. The child was covered in feces.
The child was in guarded condition at a Norfolk hospital Friday. A month-old boy was found unharmed. Both children were turned over to the county Department of Social Services.
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They were wrong.
But instead of just fighting to hang on, we need to fight for the rights of all workers, we need to fight to grow union labor and grow workers rights if we are to save the middle class. We need to grow an army of people dedicated to workers rights who can and will protest peacefully and memorably as they did in Madison at the drop of a hat. We need to take the Madison spirit, the Egyptian spirit, and the Tunisian spirit - and plant it, feed it, nurture it.
City officials failed to discipline two traffic officers who appeared in a pornographic film while on the job, NBC4 LA has found.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has opened an investigation into the behavior of two uniformed, on-duty officers who appear in the sexually explicit movie. The investigation was prompted by the NBC4 LA exposé.
"It's absolutely disgusting," said Amir Sedadi, general manager of LADOT, after viewing a copy of the movie shown to him by NBC4 LA. "Immediately, we will conduct a full investigation. This is not acceptable to me."
The video, which is available on a popular adult subscription website, tracks the interactions of a porn actress as she approaches men in a range of work environments.
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The illegal Taurus 9MM semi-automatic pistol that an eight year-old swiped from his father to sell at school.
The illegal Taurus 9MM semi-automatic pistol that an eight year-old swiped from his father to sell at school.
Three live rounds were in the illegal 9-mm. pistol when the 8-year-old boy brought it into Public School 107 in Flushing and sold it Thursday, cops say.
The gun's serial number had been scratched off, police said.
Ignacio Galvan, 54, was arraigned last night in Queens Criminal Court on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child. He was being held in lieu of $3,000 bail.
The boy faces weapons possession charges in Queens Family Court.
"I can't believe my son took it to school," Galvan told cops, according to court papers. "Thank God no one was hurt. It's all my fault."
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This photo provided by Columbus, Ohio, police, shows a booking photo of Randle Lee Roberts II. Authorities in central Ohio have identified the man killed in a shootout with police that left four people injured, including three officers. Columbus police identified him as 27-year-old Randle Lee Roberts II. They didn't say where he lives. They learned after the shootout Saturday that Roberts might be a suspect in a quadruple homicide about 90 miles south in Adams County at a house along a rural state highway near the village of West Union. An Adams County dispatcher confirms the sheriff's office is investigating the four deaths but hasn't released details.
This photo provided by Columbus, Ohio, police, shows a booking photo of Randle Lee Roberts II. Authorities in central Ohio have identified the man killed in a shootout with police that left four people injured, including three officers. Columbus police identified him as 27-year-old Randle Lee Roberts II. They didn't say where he lives. They learned after the shootout Saturday that Roberts might be a suspect in a quadruple homicide about 90 miles south in Adams County at a house along a rural state highway near the village of West Union. An Adams County dispatcher confirms the sheriff's office is investigating the four deaths but hasn't released details.
Police in Columbus were responding to two calls about shots fired into homes when an officer spotted and pursued a vehicle matching a description given by the callers, Sgt. Rich Weiner said. The driver crashed the pickup truck in a residential area, fired at the officer and ran off, evading authorities for more than 10 minutes before a shootout erupted at about 11 a.m. (1800 GMT), Weiner said.
Twenty-seven-year-old Randle Lee Roberts II was killed in the shootout, police said.
Officers learned after the shootout that Roberts might be a suspect in the quadruple slayings near West Union, a village in southern Ohio.
A homeless man who allegedly robbed a Florida bank and then gave away some of his loot to passengers on a public bus was expected to be arraigned in Tampa on Friday, authorities said.
Elmer McGuirt, 27, gave a note to a teller at a Wachovia Bank on Thursday demanding money and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Witnesses told deputies McGuirt then boarded a bus and began giving some of the money to his fellow passengers. Deputies contacted the driver, who stopped the bus, claiming there was a mechanical problem. When McGuirt got off the bus with the other passengers, he was arrested and charged with robbery.
Deputies recovered some money from the passengers as well as McGuirt, who had stuffed cash in his pants.
Elmer McGuirt, 27, gave a note to a teller at a Wachovia Bank on Thursday demanding money and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Witnesses told deputies McGuirt then boarded a bus and began giving some of the money to his fellow passengers. Deputies contacted the driver, who stopped the bus, claiming there was a mechanical problem. When McGuirt got off the bus with the other passengers, he was arrested and charged with robbery.
Deputies recovered some money from the passengers as well as McGuirt, who had stuffed cash in his pants.
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When Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) incited outrage by proposing to confine the definition of rape to instances of "forcible rape" in H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Act, it was a little-known fact FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) had been using this classification since 1929 -- making the definition, as Ms. Magazine points out, almost as old as sliced bread.
The UCR's summary reporting system, which functions as the rubric for measuring national crime data, defines rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will."
It continues: "Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded."
While organizations including the Feminist Majority Foundation and the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia have been petitioning to change this outdated definition -- which excludes incidences of oral or anal rape, rape with a foreign object, and discounts all rapes of men -- for over a decade, even testifying about the necessity of broadening the definition's scope to a Senate subcommittee last September, they have reignited their campaign after seeing the reaction to H.R. 3.
