LINCOLN, Neb. -- EXCERPT FROM BOOK: "When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive," writes Jason, "a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you...
If there is justification for the taps on the wrist given two Department of Human Services managers implicated in the death of Danieal Kelly, then the public deserves to know what it is. Danieal died in August 2006 while under the care of her mother and the supervision of the...
The city has dealt out minor punishments - brief suspensions without pay - to Pamela Mayo and Wesley Brown, senior Department of Human Services managers who supervised workers implicated in the starvation death in 2006 of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly. A third worker, Janice Walker, retired before the investigation was completed,...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Justice Department has appealed to nation's highest court to re-hear a major death penalty case involving sentencing for child rapists, saying the ruling was made without all the facts. The Supreme Court last month ruled 5-4 against the death sentence for child rapists, but...
TEHRAN AFP — The rights group run by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday protested at the hanging by Iran of 29 criminals in a mass execution and said it doubted the convicts had been given a fair trial. "The Defenders of Human Rights Centre... is against capital...
WASHINGTON AFP — A man convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy was put to death on Tuesday in Starke, Florida, state prison officials said. Mark Dean Schwab, 39, died from lethal injection a year after his execution was put on hold while the US...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Two US Marines have been disciplined for their role in an Internet video that showed a puppy being thrown off a cliff by a soldier in Iraq, the military said in a statement Thursday. A press release from the US Marines Corps base in Hawaii...
PARIS AFP — France's women's 1500 metres world championships bronze medallist Bouchra Ghezielle was handed a three-and-a-half-year suspension on Thursday by the French Athletics Federation for failing a dope test for banned blood-booster EPO. The 29-year-old, Moroccan-born runner received a heavier punishment than French cross country champion Khalid Zoubaa,...
NEW YORK AFP — National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell brought down the curtain on the "Spygate" scandal here on Tuesday after meeting with former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh. Goodell spoke for more than three hours with Walsh about the Patriots' videotaping coaching signals of rival...
BEIJING AFP — Ten doctors and officials in China have been punished for mishandling a virus that has killed 26 children, state media reported as the number of infected youngsters rose to more than 12,000. The punishments have been meted out in the eastern province of Anhui, where most...
BEIJING AFP — Ten doctors and officials in China have been punished for mishandling a virus that has killed 26 children, state media reported as the number of infected youngsters rose to nearly 12,000. The punishments have been meted out in the eastern Anhui province, where the bulk of...
'PROGRESS" in human civilization has been marked by prohibitions against certain instinctual, innate practices, many now considered primitive. These achievements include ending human sacrifice, cannibalism, incest, slavery, and wife-beating. Virtually every society now deems these practices immoral. Abortion is at the forefront of ethical controversy in the United States and,...
LONDON AFP — De Wet Barry was cleared of a deliberate late tackle on Mathew Tait by an Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel here Monday, with officials deciding the Springbok centre's red-card against Newcastle last weekend was sufficient punishment in itself. Barry was sent-off during Harlequins's 15-9 English Premiership...
LIVERPOOL AFP — Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez wants to meet with Premier League referees boss Keith Hackett following the controversial sending-off of Javier Mascherano at Old Trafford. Mascherano was ordered off the field by Steve Bennett for showing dissent and Benitez, while accepting his player was wrong to argue...
LINDSAY Lohan and Paris Hilton can breathe easy - the search for the year's worst film is over and they are nowhere to be seen in Meet The Spartans. Or rather, their likenesses appear in Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's execrable spoof of the sword and sandals romp 300,...
PARIS AFP — Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party suffered losses in French local elections Sunday, poll projections showed, in what the opposition Socialists called a "punishment vote" for the reforming president. The vote, the first major test of Sarkozy's popularity since he defeated the Socialist Segelone Royal last May, was...
Advocates and opponents of updating Utah's animal cruelty statutes resumed a battle this year that's been waged for at least the last two legislative sessions, and people on both sides of the issue could claim victory with passage at the end. SB297, a second proposal this session on...
Byline: By DENISE MOORE THE Archbishop of Canterbury has been criticised for claiming the adoption of elements of Islamic sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable". Dr Rowan Williams said there was a place for finding a "constructive accommodation" in areas such as marriage which could allow Muslim...
LONDON AFP — The head of the Anglican church said Thursday the adoption of parts of sharia law in Britain looked "unavoidable", calling for "constructive accommodation" over issues like resolving marriage disputes. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, told BBC radio that people should approach Islamic law with an...
TEHRAN AFP — An Iranian firing squad on Saturday executed a man who raped 17 children, the Fars news agency reported, in a rare use of this method of capital punishment which is usually carried out by hanging. The man, identified as Reza Sharifi, was executed in the central...
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