Woman Charged with statutory rape

A 31 year old woman arrested and charged with statutory rape of a 13 year old male. Investigation began after school officials overheard a conversation between the minor and other students. According to Picayune Item a Purvis, Ms woman has been arrested and charged for...

Education is Neglected in India, Yet their Youth Will Lead World?

In India, schooling ranges from advanced degrees in colleges, to children being forced to study in one-room schools with no drinking water or toilets.  In Daliganj, an area of India, there is a school where this is just the case. This school is not new.  It has been around...

Amanda Brumfield, Daughter Of Billy Bob Thornton, Arrested

Amanda Brumfield, the twenty-nine year old daughter of American actor Billy Bob Thornton, has been arrested in Florida on Friday. She is facing charges of neglect that has led to the death of an infant whom she was babysitting in October of last year. Brumfield did not call...

Ringing for Attention at Restaurants?

In Food outshines service at Cetrella (SF Chronicle, October 15), Michael Bauer asks "What is it about empty restaurants that cultivates poor service? It seems like every time I go into a dining room with a sea of open tables, service is erratic". I think there are more...

Dad gets 18 months for forcing girl to kill cat

"MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. "I am extremely sorry for what I did," Danield J. Collins said during...

The Exiles: Film about Native Americans Exiled in Their Own Land Revived

Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...