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Friday, May 20, 2005

Reserving The Right To Ban Sex Offenders

On the back of a season's pass to Six Flags Amusement Park (there are thirty nationwide) there is a legal statement that maintains that the respective park reserves the right to ban entrance to a known sex offender. The company says that this statement was added because of advice given by a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

She Lived Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, Rape, And, Finally, Murder

David Onstott, the man accused of sexual battery and murdering the 13-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, has a history of aggression against women. He was convicted of rape in 1995. Sadly, the little Florida girl, Sarah Lunde, who was killed and left in a pond, lived a life of physical, emotional,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Finger's Owner Found

The Wendy's chili finger case has just about run its course; basicly, it's all over but the trying. The owner of the severed finger Anna Ayala put in a bowl of chili in a San Jose Wendy's in order to extort money from the fast-food chain has been identified. However, authorities are keeping the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 9, 2005

Cohabitation -- Keeping The Divorce Rate Down

North Carolina is one of seven states that still has a cohabitation law -- making it illegal for two people of the opposite sex to cohabit a residence without being married -- on the books. They have had their law since 1805. The ACLU means to do away with it and is challenging the law on behalf of... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Serial Killer's List Could Have Been Abbreviated

It seems that when Douglas and Carroll Counties in Georgia sent the FBI the fingerprints of a John Paul Chapman for comparison on three separate occasions in 2003 and 2004, the Bureau failed to match Chapman to a set of fingerprints for Jeremy Jones, who was wanted for sexual assault in Oklahoma at... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 1, 2005

A Story Too Good To Be True

After receiving what they thought was a prank 911 call, the Boulder, Colorado police found an unemotional 14-year-old Margaret Rich, who told them her father had taken his own life. They subsequently found Garrett Rich upstairs with bullet wounds to the head and to the chest. The girl wounld later... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Ohio Shooter Guilty But Not Guilty

The defense lawyers of the Ohio Shooter, the man who terrorized the Ohio higway system in 2003-04 and killed one woman, are hoping to convince a jury that their client, Charles McCoy Jr., is a paranoid schizophrenic of such magnitude that he "heard voices" and couldn't distinguish right from wrong... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Tell It To The Judge

"My client has always maintained his innocense, " asserts Michael Rubin, lawyer for Fletcher Worrell a.k.a. Clarence Williams a.k.a. Umar Abdul Hakeem. The latter name is the name he has used as part of the Muslim community in Atlanta for the past decade, which his lawyer states is not the act of a... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Brat Caught On Tape, As Was Arrest

It has come down to a lawsuit, as anyone who has been in this country for more than fifty years knew it would. Inga Akins', the mother of the 5-year-old St. Petersburg girl, lawyer has filed suit against the school and the police for excessive force. And they have a tape of the incident, part of a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Bi? Gay? A Foster Parent? Not In Texas

The Texas House overwhemlmingly passed legislation today (135-6, with two abstentions) to ban persons who are gay or bi-sexual to serve as foster parents. People who apply to be foster parents must answer truthfully to their sexual orientation and they must be heterosexual to actually become one.... Sign in to see full entry.

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