TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
With the George Zimmerman murder trial churning toward conclusion, cities in Florida such as Miami and Sanford, where Trayvon Martin’s murder occurred, are nervously making plans to prevent any riots or explosions of violence if Zimmerman is acquitted. Miami has had a previous experience. The city became a tinderbox 33 years ago, after an all-white […]
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Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash got some welcome news when a judge dismissed three sex abuse lawsuits against him because his accusers had waited too long to sue. Clash’s attorney, Michael Berger, said Clash, who was suspended and later resigned from Sesame Street after the first allegations surfaced in November, “can go about the business of […]
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All of the prisoners at Virginia’s Richmond City Jail admit they made poor choices, and could be better fathers. “I am definitely failing as a parent right now, just by being out of her life,” Ronnell Glasgow said. A few examples: Julian Edwards is serving four years for drug distribution, Joey Atkins is awaiting trial […]
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