Father to appeal anti-grounding ruling Judge ruled could not ban daughter from trip TORONTO — The father of a feisty 12-year-old girl says he’s going to appeal a decision by Quebec’s Superior Court that ruled last week he had no right to discipline his daughter by barring her from a school trip. The Globe and Mail reports that the man first banned his daughter from going online after she posted photos of herself on a dating site. Then the Grade 6 student, whose parents are divorced, allegedly... Read Full Story

By Tamara Jolee Story Created: May 8, 2008 at 7:48 PM CDT Story Updated: May 9, 2008 at 9:06 PM CDT TYLER - Shauntel Mayo - the woman that organized the “Mineola Swinger’s Club” and forced her own children to perform there - was found guilty in a Smith County Courthouse Thursday. The jury decided 29-year-old Shauntel Mayo’s fate in less than five minutes. She received the maximum sentence of life behind bars and required to pay a $10,000 fine for engaging in organized criminal activity... Read Full Story

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia’s capital — until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died. Police said Friday that no one ever reported Golik missing and no one has come to claim her body. Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik’s flat after deciding that the apartment should belong to... Read Full Story

Mon Jun 9, 9:24 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother’s handgun from the woman’s purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam’s Club store, authorities said. A witness, Lueen Homewood, said store workers grabbed first-aid materials off store shelves to help the grandmother as she cradled the wounded child near the store’s pharmacy, The (Columbia) State newspaper reported on its Web site. The girl was rushed to a hospital... Read Full Story

Freedom of expression or racism/sexism? A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC yesterday. According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama”. The artist thought his racist views were protected under... Read Full Story

Billionaire Drug Bust (Cocaine, Ecstasy, and Meth) Broadcom’s co-founder charged in tawdry narcotics indictment JUNE 5 – A technology billionaire was a drug fiend who trafficked in cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine, spiked the drinks of business associates and employees, hired prostitutes for himself and others, and maintained several narcotics dens, including one in an underground lair at his Los Angeles mansion, prosecutors charge. In a remarkable federal indictment unsealed today... Read Full Story

Wed Jun 4, 1:11 AM ET UTRECHT, Netherlands - Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a “mooning” that went horribly wrong. A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back “for a joke.” It says that at one point the 21-year-old “pushed his behind against the window of a restaurant” that broke and resulted in “deep wounds to his derriere.” The statement released Tuesday says police detained the... Read Full Story

Drunk ‘Darth Vader’ punished for Jedi attack LONDON (AFP) - A booze-fuelled Briton pretending to be Star Wars villain Darth Vader was punished Tuesday for a bizarre surprise attack on two Jedi fanatics. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27 — who has a chronic alcohol problem — donned a black bin bag for a cape and used a metal crutch for a lightsabre when he impersonated the Dark Lord of the Sith on March 25. He then lept over the wall of a “Jedi Church” where Barney Jones and his cousin Michael were... Read Full Story

POSTED: 2:58 pm MST May 2, 2008 RAINBOW VALLEY, Ariz. — An 18-year-old illegal immigrant has been arrested in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl, Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies said. Enrique Jacobo-Valdez was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail on two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. Jacobo-Valdez is currently unemployed and had a warrant out for his arrest from Pinal County for possession of dangerous drugs, deputies said. He was living with the child’s family at the... Read Full Story

http://www.money.co.uk/article/10003…uy-hookers.htm A 13 year old boy from Texas is convicted of fraud after using his Father’s credit cards to hire escorts. A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad’s credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order. Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company, and took his friends on... Read Full Story