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ELKHORN, Wis. - When Tallan "T-Man" Latz was 5, he saw Joe Satriani playing guitar on TV. "I turned around to my dad and said, 'That's exactly what I want to do.'" Three years and countless hours of practicing later, 8-year-old Tallan is a blues guitar prodigy. He's played in bars and clubs, including the House of Blues in Chicago, and even jammed with Les Paul and Jackson Browne. He has a summer of festivals scheduled and has drawn interest from venues worldwide.

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CINCINNATI, Aug. 24 A 10-year-old boy who said he hated snakes killed a 10-foot python at petting zoo by stomping on the reptile's head. Scott Braunstein, a reptile handler who brought the snake to the St. Bernadette Festival in Amelia, Ohio, last weekend, said he was shocked by the boy's violence, The Cincinnati Enquirer said Thursday. The snake, named Popcorn, was a non-poisonous albino Burmese python. Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles in Dry Ridge, Ky., said the boy approached him and told him that he hated snakes. The child then raised his leg and stomped down on the snake's...

Boy chases 'transformer' on national highway Created: 2007-7-17 16:05:52 Author:Alice Gu A BOY riding a bicycle was stopped on a national highway for chasing a truck that he mistook for a robot from the movie "Transformers" in Shandong Province yesterday, according to a newspaper. The 11-year-old boy was stopped at Penglai toll station on National Highway No. 206 and told attendants that he was chasing Optimus Prime, a transformer that leads the Autobots in a war against the evil Decepticons. The boy lives near Daxindian Town, which is close to the toll station, the report said. A few days ago,...

Roughing The Spectator By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist | January 19, 2007 Ends up, the most serious injury in the Patriots phenomenal playoff run hasn't been sustained by a player, but by a boy in the stands.

- Police and family members said a 10-year-old boy who died by hanging himself from a bunk bed was apparently mimicking the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his apartment bedroom, said Webster police Lt. Tom Claunch. Pelico's mother told police he had previously watched a news report on Saddam's death. "It appears to be accidental," Claunch said. "Our gut reaction is that he was experimenting."

If you have not seen this anti-abortion YouTube song presentation, you might enjoy it. It is not graphic at all and is a wonderful song. ANTI-ABORTION VIDEO

If the Democrats think the Islamic Jihadists will respect them more than President Bush then read this! This is an article everyone needs to read. If you think that because you refuse to be politically incorrect and see these inhuman animals for what they are that they will somehow respect you enough not to do to you what they did to these young girls, then think again! It will get worse. Beheaded girls were Ramadan ?trophies? THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan ?trophy? by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists,...

September 7, 2006 -- AN infuriated Warren Buffett has renounced one of his granddaughters - telling her she is no longer his relative "legally or emotionally" because she took part in a documentary about the lives of the very rich. Nicole Buffett, the adopted daughter of Buffett's son Peter and biological daughter of Peter's ex-wife Mary, was featured in Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon's documentary, "The One Percent," which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival this year and is a follow-up to Johnson's "Born Rich." Enraged that Nicole not only participated in the documentary, but also plugged it on National...

LONDON, August 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ancient quest of fashionable women to stave off the effects of age has always left them open to the claims of swindlers. The latest edition of the snake oil chronicles, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, has a more “scientific” cachet and involves injecting stem cells gleaned from aborted babies as well as umbilical cord blood directly into the skin. Scores of British women are opting for a procedure that stem cell experts are condemning as charlatanry. A private British clinic makes arrangements for well-to-do English women to travel to Rotterdam in the...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, JULY 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Life without children is a growing social reality for an increasing number of American adults. This is the conclusion of the 2006 edition of "The State of Our Unions" report on marriage, released last week by the National Marriage Project. The project is based at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Up until recently, for most people, the greater part of adult life was spent with young children forming part of the household. A combination of marrying later, less children and longer life expectancy means, however, that a significantly greater part of...

NEW PORT RICHEY - Last week, her son turned 10 years old. On Tuesday morning, she watched as police took him away in a patrol car, charged with a felony. A neighbor saw the boy break into her car and make off with a pocket knife, according to a police report. Police were originally uneasy about arresting the boy, who will be a fourth-grader this year. But New Port Richey Lt. Jeffrey Harrington said the mother insisted. They charged him with armed burglary. "The mother was at her wits' end," Harrington said Wednesday. "She thought he was just incorrigible. She...

Two fuzzy heartbeats—our doctor pointed to the black-and-white monitor of the ultrasound machine, and we both squinted and pretended to see what he was talking about. A lima bean, we thought, with a smaller lima bean next to it? Sensing that we weren’t getting it, he punched a few keys and suddenly the small exam room at Cornell’s Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility filled with a rapid-fire thump-thump-thump-thump: our embryos on speakerphone. So wait, it had worked? Twice? When we still didn’t say anything, our other doctor piped up: “This is good news, you guys.” How did we feel?...

Sikh bracelets, but no Christian rings at school bans pupils from wearing 'purity rings' A group of teenage Christians have been banned by a secondary school from wearing "purity rings" as a symbol of their religious belief in chastity until marriage. At least one of the dozen pupils, who all attend the same girls' comprehensive in Horsham, West Sussex, is considering legal action against the Millais School for "a breach of human rights". Although the school allows Muslim and Sikh pupils to wear headscarves or kara bracelets as a means of religious expression, the purity ring - a small band...

MACON, Ga. - A 27-year-old woman was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for leaving her newborn daughter in a Wal-Mart restroom last year. Amy Shorter covered her face after the verdict was read Wednesday, and several relatives cried as they left the courtroom. They declined to comment. The jury found Shorter guilty of felony murder for causing the baby's death while committing first-degree cruelty to children. Defense attorney Elizabeth Lane had argued that Shorter did not intend to kill her child. Lane said Shorter didn't know she was pregnant and panicked after giving birth in the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with behavior problems in children and pre-teens. While the study examined 5 to 11 year olds with asthma, the findings most likely could be extrapolated to include children without asthma who "act out" or experience depression and anxiety, according to Kimberly Yolton, Ph.D., a researcher at the Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author The study will be presented at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time Sunday, April 30, at the annual...

A funny thing happened to me the other day when my wife and I had, thank God, another baby (a boy). Many of my friends didn’t seem all that happy for me. Sure, they went through the motions of smiles and congratulations. But it was evident that many thought me insane. Why would a young man and his wife ruin their lives with eight children? Who could afford the day-school bills? Didn’t we want to live life a little, and not just be burdened with kids? It got downright surreal when a European film company pressed me, while my wife...

A NEW breed of educated women has discovered the secret of a happy marriage — opting to stay at home instead of pursuing a career. The phenomenon, in which wives prefer their husbands to be the main breadwinner, has been identified by American sociologists and is now gaining a foothold in Britain. Unlike the housewives of the 1950s, who had little choice over rearing children and acting as homemaker, this generation of women is building on the advances of the feminist movement to determine their optimum lifestyle. The women are predominantly drawn from the middle classes and have young offspring....

Jeremiah Clayton Jones discovered that his former fiancée was pregnant just three weeks before the baby was due, when an adoption-agency lawyer called and asked if he would consent to have his baby adopted. "I said absolutely not," said Mr. Jones, a 23-year-old Arizona man who met his ex-fiancée at Pensacola Christian College in Florida. "It was an awkward moment, hearing for the first time that I would be a father, and then right away being told, 'We want to take your kid away.' But I knew that if I was having a baby, I wanted that baby." Mr. Jones...

Weird kid up a tree I have seen people here come up with some good insights, so I thought I would take advantage of this forum to help me figure out the behavior of this weird kid. Yesterday my two boys and I were getting ready to distribute our Boy Scout popcorn to the folks who had ordered it. We were still in the house and I heard the neighbor's dog barking and someone yelling "ShutUp!" very loud. It sounded like it was in my driveway, so I went out and looked, but saw nothing. A little bit later, one...

This is CLASSIC. This son was caught stealing and his mother made him stand outside with a sign that read, "I AM 13 YEARS OLD, I STEAL, I WANT TO GO TO PRISON TO BE WITH DADDY". She gets a nomination for MOM of the YEAR for this one.

Seven-Year-Old Boy Dies on Water Ride at N.Y. Amusement ParkBy Jim Fitzgerald Associated Press Writer Published: Aug 3, 2005 RYE, N.Y. (AP) - A 7-year-old boy was found dead in the water of a boat ride at an historic amusement park Wednesday after he didn't emerge from a tunnel, authorities said. The boy apparently climbed out the boat and got caught in the conveyor belt of the Ye Old Mill, a boat-in-the-dark ride, at Playland in Westchester. The ride that killed the Norwalk, Conn., boy, whose name was not released, is "one of our most benign," County Executive Andrew Spano...

NEW DELHI: This one's straight out of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Five-year-old Tanishk Boyas took his three-year-old cousin Himanshu, who was hurt in a fall, to a hospital and got him treated. There's more. Tanishk drove Himanshu there in a Maruti van. Staff at the Mayur Vihar Phase-I hospital almost fell off their chairs when they saw Tanishk bring his cousin in. Himanshu was discharged after an overnight stay at the hospital on Saturday. The sequence of events began with Himanshu falling through an air vent left open on the first floor of his house. Tanishk promptly picked him...

CONCORD, N.H. - Six newspapers in New Hampshire have agreed to stop running real estate ads that suggest children aren't welcome at the properties following complaints that the ads violated federal law. Several dozens landlords and real estate agents also agreed to stop placing ads targeting adult tenants and to submit future ads to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for review. Federal law prohibits landlords from discriminating against children. The ads included promotions like "one mature person," "quiet adult location" and "great for a single person." They are discriminatory because they make it harder for families to...

/begin my translation China: Smoking Problems Among Young Kids 05/12/05| A small kid in tattered clothes is lighting up like an old pro. He must have done it for quite a while. It appears that he is a kid panhandling in front of a Buddhist temple. We can see an incense burner and a plastic bottle for collecting money, and on the left side, we see the appeal for help written on a board. Inhaling after lighting it up   Judging from the way he carries the cigarette between his fingers, he looks as experienced as any chain-smoking grownup. Inhaling again There is a wide...

Mohammad Hossein, 4, plays with his toy gun, in front of his mother, who is a member of a suicide commandos unit, during a meeting where more than 200 young men and women volunteers prepared themselves for special training to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and Israelis, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Click Here For VideoComments for each segment of the video street kids in miserable condition kids at work kids giving oath an interview with N. Korean kids(probably in Pyongyang) -- kids say they study hard and work in organizations to please the leader. They want unification because they feel so bad about S. Korean kids who are miserably poor, scavenging trash dumps. a news clip on a triplet (Gosh! They do dig triplets!) a brief segment on a group session a boy recites the Kim Il-sung's episode associated with the picture(of a spring) a boy explains what the miniature mockup...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4473579.stm A Head Start in Patriotism In Shanghai, angry Chinese defied government appeals for calm to launch anti-Japanese protests

I have on good word that SI will be doing an explosive story this week about Phil Mickelson. I don't want to get into rumor mongering so I'll let the story itself come out. But any fans here that would quit being fans if it comes out that he's not America's Golden Boy that his image portends? I've been a fan for a long time, and I don't know how the details will affect his reception.

Mosul, Iraq -- Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), 25th Infantry Division (Light), discovered a large cache of weapons and munitions based on a child’s tip during operations on Jan. 3 in northern Iraq. An Iraqi child led Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, to a large cache of weapons in an abandoned building during a patrol in western Mosul that consisted of 30 60 mm mortars, 21 rocket propelled grenade rounds, dynamite, various roadside bombs and components, five RPG launchers, more than 100 mortar fuses, grenades, ammunition and intelligence documents. Soldiers also discovered a stolen...

Eyewitness News has learned Senator John Edwards will be in San Antonio late next week for a campaign stop. Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president, will speak to a small group of people at a private fundraiser next Thursday or Friday. It is unclear whether the North Carolina lawmaker will hold a rally in public during his visit. Senator John Kerry will not be with Edwards. They are campaigning separately until the Democratic convention later this month.

A stubborn Kid Rocks the Bush vote It was a lazy afternoon at Russell Simmons' spread outside downtown East Hampton. The hip-hop and fashion mogul, his younger brother Joe (aka Rev. Run, who's filming a pilot of his own reality show for the ABC Family Channel), movie director Brett Ratner and his girlfriend, Serena Williams (recovering from her defeat in the Wimbledon final), were getting a little antsy on a rainy Monday, wondering what to do with themselves. Then Kid Rock arrived. So they all decided to drive into town and take in a movie. They jumped into various vehicles...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 23, 2004 NORTH MIAMI-DADEKid's green lunch spice wasn't oregano -- it was potA kindergartner found sprinkling his friend's food with marijuana at a Miami-Dade public school sparks questions from police and social workers.BY TERE FIGUERAStfigueras@herald.com A kindergartner's scattering leafy greens onto his friend's lasagna piqued a cafeteria worker's interest Monday and prompted a police investigation at a North Miami-Dade elementary school.The mystery ingredient: marijuana.Both students, the small plastic bag containing the green vegetable matter and the pot-laced entrée were marched to the front office at Gratigny Elementary.The students eventually returned to class. But now the...

Kerry kid blasts Bush over Haiti Daily News Wire Services STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Taking a page out of her father's campaign playbook, John Kerry's youngest daughter yesterday criticized the Bush administration for its handling of the crisis in Haiti. "I believe this administration just helped overthrow, basically overthrow, a democratically elected president," Vanessa Kerry, 27, said during a campaign stop at Stony Brook University of the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "We basically, in our silence, allowed him to be deposed." At a debate Sunday among Democratic presidential candidates in New York City, John Kerry said Bush's actions were "late,...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Terri Carlin wants to make Janet Jackson's bare breast into a federal case. Carlin filed a proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court this week against Jackson, singer Justin Timberlake, broadcasters MTV and CBS and their parent company, Viacom. Carlin alleges in the Feb. 4 suit that she and others who watched the halftime show during the Super Bowl were injured by the performers' lewd actions when Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her breast. In the lawsuit, Carlin charges that the exposure and "sexually explicit conduct" by other performers during the show injured...

A 13-year-old boy who gave a girl a lovebite at school is facing an assault charge, an allegation his parents call excessive. Police in Richland, Texas, issued the teenager with a summons for assault by contact after the girl's parents reported the incident to Richland Middle School, officials said. The boy's mother, Patricia Singh, said her son had been punished with a three-day suspension from school. He was not named because of his age. Assault by contact, a class C misdemeanour, carries a fine of about $US280 ($400). The boy, who pleaded not guilty at his court hearing, told the...

Clay Teen Dies 8 Days After 'Sucker Punch' At School Grief Counselors To Be At Ridgeview High Today A Clay County family made a heart-wrenching decision to take their 15-year-old son -- in a coma for eight days after being punched in the head after school. The decided Friday to take the boy off life support. David Baez was in critical condition at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center for more than a week after he was hit in the head by a 17-year-old fellow student after classes at Ridgeview High School. He was knocked unconscious by what was described as a sucker...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The FBI have arrested a Minnesota teenager suspected of making a copycat variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm. Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota, a middle- class suburb west of Minneapolis, was arrested on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer, according to a St. Paul district court clerk.

http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_2178562,00.html Day care worker abused 3 kids, police say Battery, rape charged; 17 other cases viewed By Aimee Edmondson and Chris Conley edmondson@gomemphis.com conley@gomemphis.com August 13, 2003 A 30-year-old Memphis day care worker has been charged with sexually abusing three children in his care. Ivan Leonard Ward, of 1739 LaPaloma, was held late Tuesday in the Shelby County Jail on a $300,000 bond, charged with two counts of sexual battery and one count of rape of a child. Ward is accused of sexually abusing three children at two day care centers between July 2000 and April 2003. State child welfare...

LONDON - When Glen and Melissa Brown's home got too crowded, their son flew the coop — er, to the coop. They fitted their pigeon loft as a bedroom for their son, complete with bed, TV, video and DVD player. On Friday, the couple refused a request by local officials to pull down the loft, a wooden structure which was built without permission and which social workers say is unsafe for a child. Officials were alarmed to discover that 12-year-old Glen Jr. has been living in the loft for the past two years. Glen's stepbrother Xyron, also 12, had been...

As Bloomberg's ratings plunge, will the Comeback Kid strike again? By David Usborne in New York 13 June 2003 A plunge in the popularity of Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, is spawning renewed speculation that the Democrats will resort to their one nuclear weapon at the next election in 2005 - and that weapon is Bill Clinton. Rumours resurfaced this week that the former president - who heads a foundation based in Harlem focusing on issues such as the international Aids crisis and world peace - is seriously considering a challenge to Mr Bloomberg. A local Democrat asked...

Do you support the Greeley Central High School students’ decision to stage a walkout during school to protest the war in Iraq? Yes 65.26 % (1157) No 34.74 % (616) Total Votes: 1773

A six year old boy brought an unusual item to a show and tell session at his school: a small amount of marijuana and a pipe. Sheriffs detectives went to the boys house and arrested his dad Doug Ballard 41, and his live in girlfriend Heather Peterson, 32.They were booked into Morongo Basin Jail for investigation of child endangerment.Bail was set at $100,000.00 apiece.Sherrifs Sargent Fred Gonzalez said that the boy had about a tenth of an ounce of marijuana and apparently knew what people did with it and wanted to show his classmates.

July 26, 2002 (Martinsburg, WV) — Evidently this kid doesn't know about the Internet. A 13-year-old boy walked into Pepper's News Stand in Martinsburg last Tuesday morning apparently desperate to get his hands on some pornography. "He was standing at the counter looking at the porno magazines," said Officer Chuck Kittle. When store manager Ellie Masters asked if she could help him, the boy drew a silver .25-caliber pistol and pointed it at her, Kittle said. "He said, 'I want one of those,'" and pointed to the top-shelf containing the adult publications, Masters told The Associated Press. She said she...

<p>NEW YORK — A troubled 13-year-old Brooklyn boy found beaten to death and stuffed in a closet earlier this week was killed in a dispute over a dollar, police said.</p> <p>The grim details of Patrick Bhola's death came to light Thursday after an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were charged with his murder and kidnapping.</p>

Prosecutor will make decision on any charges against FBI agent; Agency doing separate review. Anne Arundel County police have submitted the results of their investigation into the FBI's shooting of a Pasadena man mistaken for a bank robber to county prosecutors, who are to determine whether criminal charges should be filed against the agent who fired the shot, officials said yesterday. Police Chief P. Thomas Shanahan said the case will remain under investigation until State's Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee decides whether charges are warranted. Until then, county police will not release details of their investigation or records relating to the...