Judge sentences teen to church in Oklahoma

What do you think about a judge as part of a sentencing deal, mandating attendence to a mosque for 10 years? If you are the average American, you would be up and arms. If you are many on the Christian right-wing, you might even offer death threats to the judge. But Judge Mike...

Teen cannabis use may damage brain for life, warns major study

Fears that drug 'rewires' adolescent minds as scientists find persistent smoking reduces IQ Teenagers who smoke cannabis regularly could be permanently damaging the development of their brain and are likely to...

Smart teen of illegal parents faces deportation

Here is a case where two illegal immigrant parents: one from India and the other Bangladesh came to America and raised a teen from age 14 months to now 17 years of age. The parents have been deported, though the...

Suicide: Desensitization and the "Doctrine of Can't"

            For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...

Teen Locked Up In Closet For Years

A 14-year-old, Oklahoma boy, had escaped from a home after he was kept there for 4 1/2 years, with most of his time locked in a bedroom closet. LaRhonda Marie McCall, 37, mother of the 14-year-old boy and friend,...

Last of Teen Sex Ring Suspects Arrested

Finally 35 year old Ronnie Presley has been arrested for his hanis crimes. After bening taken back to Tulsa, Presley will face human sex trafficking charges for running one of the largest human sex trafficking...

Teen wanted to 'catch a body,' jury told

On July 10, 2007 in Castor Gardens, Philadelphia on the 1300 block of Greenby St. a man, Kwok Wai Ho, 69 yrs. old died from a head injury at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after he was beaten and "robbed" by...

Canadian Officials Knew US Abused Teen Prisoner at Gitmo

"A federal appeals court in Canada ruled Friday that because officials knew about the abuse of a young Canadian detained at Guantanamo Bay, they must ask the United States to repatriate him.In the ruling, Canadian...

A Staten Island teenager fell into a manhole while texting

Texting is useful at times butit is out of order at other times.Driving while texting is dangerous and many have been killed while doing so.  It is less dangerous while walking but still it is not a good idea...

American Teen's Wild Night on Australian Ghan Train

An American visitor to the Australian Outback has experienced the ride of his life and lived to tell of it. Chad Vance, aged 19, of Alaska, was about to miss the Ghan, their trans-continental train, and clung onto...

Request for $45 million Punitive Award in Train/Car Crash

The verdict of $21.6 million to the families of four young adults killed in a 2003 train-car accident was among the largest wrongful-death awards ever in Minnesota. But the case is bigger than that, the families'...

When Flirting Becomes Pornography

A 14-year-old New Jersey girl faces charges of child pornography for posting nude pictures of herself on MySpace, and if convicted she could be forced to register as a sex offender. Apparently, the young lady...

Canadian Student Foils Attack of U.K. School

Montreal's Concordia University student J.P. Neufeld was browsing the forum of technology website newgrounds.com on Tuesday when he came across the first of a string of alarming threads, along with a picture of a gas...

Amber Alert Teen Justin Lee Wainwright Still Missing

"WXYZ) - An Amber Alert is still in effect for a teenage boy missing from his home in Plymouth Township. Police are investigating the disappearance of 15-year-old Justin Lee Wainright. Officers...

Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?

" An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of...
 

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