April, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

‘Menace’ jailed over child rape and abduction attempt

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A man who tried to murder a 60-year-old woman in an Aberdeen park during an attempt to abduct and rape her two young granddaughters has been jailed. Ryan Yates admitted stabbing the woman as the […] […]

Schwarzenegger wants to run for president

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BURBANK, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president — if he could. California’s actor-turned-governor was born in Austria and the U.S. Constitution prevents foreign-born citizens from holding the nation’s top job. […] […]

Detainee depicted as bomb-maker’s apprentice

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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Prosecutors in the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo replayed a video on Thursday showing Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr as a boy, learning to wire roadside bombs in […] […]

2 Ind. boys accused of killing stepdad to run away

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WARSAW, Ind. – Two young friends from a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in northern Indiana wanted to run away to Arizona so badly, prosecutors say, that they gunned down a stepfather who stood in the way […] […]

Italy investigates report baby lived through abortion

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A complete spontaneous abortion at about six weeks from conception, i.e. eight weeks from LMP Rome, Italy — Italian officials are investigating reports that an infant survived an abortion, living for “a whole day” after […] […]

Arizona police officer sues over immigration law

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Officer Martin H. Escobar has filed a lawsuit over the state of Arizona’s new immigration law. A police officer in Tucson, Arizona, asks that local law enforcement be exempt from enforcing the state’s new immigration […] […]

Abortion Legislation – ‘Oklahoma, what have you done?’

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Mary Alice Carr [right] is vice president for communications at the National Institute for Reproductive Health As a reproductive rights advocate and a proud mother of two, my blood ran cold as I read about […] […]

’70s musician faces new sex charges

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Richard Finch, who played with KC & the Sunshine Band, faces charges of havng sex with “multiple male juveniles.” A musician who played in the 1970s pop music group KC & the Sunshine Band will […] […]

Five children hurt in fresh attack on school in China

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Five young children have been hurt at a school in north-eastern China after a man attacked them with a hammer before killing himself. The incident was the third attack in China’s schools in three days. […] […]

Google’s nightmare: Facebook ‘Like’ replaces links

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London, England (CNN) — Facebook dropped a bombshell on the tech industry last week in the form of a Web-wide “Like” button and the launch of the “Open Graph.” Using this new platform, Web sites […] […]