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The former principal of a middle school in Savage who was arrested in an underage prostitution sting intends to accept a plea deal, pending a judge’s approval. Mohamed Ali Selim, 38, entered a petition to plead guilty during a court hearing Friday morning. The deal still needs a judge’s approval but would result in Selim getting 16 more days in jail with work release, 30 days in a sentencing to service program and requires him to complete a psychosexual evaluation and follow any recommendations. Additionally, it would include a stay of imposition on up to three years of probation, which...

Epstein accuser says she once took Bill Clinton's seat on private jet, saw bedroom floor made of mattress foam A woman who came forward with accusations of child sex abuse against Jeffrey Epstein on Monday described a disturbing encounter with the now-deceased sex offender, said she took former President Bill Clinton’s seat on the “Lolita Express,” and noted bizarre bedroom floors made of mattress foam and being encouraged to cry after sex with the disgraced money man. The accuser, who went by the name Jane Doe 15, enlisted high-powered attorney Gloria Allred who held a news conference Monday in Los...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is most likely going to run in 2020. He’s prepping. He’s laying down the groundwork. And Democrats are either unenthused, thinking his time is done (or that he’s a relic of the past), or impatient—some viewing him as a stabilizing force in a field that’s far left, unknown, and rapidly becoming a clown car. Biden's word choice could also pose a problem with a new generation of Democrats who view the rhetoric at the time as perpetuating harmful myths about the black community. They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale,"...

Well, they pulled this a couple years ago. Here is a newer version. If Nikoula's "movie" can stay up, they should not censor this. MOHAMMED'S GIRL

Man dies while raping elderly South Texas woman Associated Press Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM Updated today at 5:50 PM Tivoli, Texas View larger map REFUGIO, Texas (AP) — Investigators said a man has died while in the act of raping an elderly South Texas woman. The Refugio County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Wright said the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his 77-year-old victim in the tiny coastal community of Tivoli.

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) - The top police officer in a remote eastern Missouri town was ordered to stand trial Monday on charges that he sexually assaulted two members of the Boy Scout troop he led after an investigator testified that the officer had confessed to the crimes. Kenneth Tomlinson II, 42, faces 16 counts of sodomy. Madison County Judge Robin Fulton set an arraignment date of March 18 following emotional testimony at the preliminary hearing, at which only prosecutors presented evidence. Fulton determined they had enough to warrant a trial. Tomlinson, who stands about 6-foot-2 and weighs well over 300...

LA officials made extradition requests from England to Thailand, it emerges, as director's lawyers file to get him released Details of attempts to arrest Roman Polanski half a dozen times around the world since 1978 have emerged today as his lawyers filed a request for his immediate release on bail from a Swiss cell. Authorities in Britain, Canada, France, Israel and Thailand had been asked to detain the film-maker over the years before he was held at Zurich airport on Saturday, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said. The release of a list of extradition attempts came in response to...

PHILADELPHIA — Seven years ago, Russian courts convicted a wealthy American motel owner of molesting children, sent him to prison, then expelled him from the country. The experience did little to keep Anthony "Mark" Bianchi stateside. Over the next few years, U.S. officials allege, he traveled to Moldova, Romania, Cambodia and Cuba to recruit destitute boys for sexual trysts. Bianchi, 44, of North Wildwood, N.J., faces trial beginning Monday under a controversial federal law aimed at thwarting "sex tourism." He is accused in this country of committing crimes -- assaulting nearly a dozen minors -- on foreign soil. More than...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy defended her decision to bring John Mark Karr back from Thailand to be investigated in the 1996 slaying of JonBenet Ramsey. "The decisions were mine," Lacy said, one day after she dropped the case against the 41-year-old schoolteacher. "I should be held accountable." Just as she began taking questions, a fire alarm disrupted the news conference, but it resumed a few minutes later. JonBenet's father found the little girl's body in the basement of their Boulder home on the day after Christmas 1996. For years, suspicion has focused on either...

<p>August 26, 2003 -- BOSTON - The suspect in the prison cell slaying of defrocked pedophile priest John Geoghan planned the killing weeks in advance, a prosecutor said yesterday.</p> <p>Joseph Druce, a fellow inmate in the maximum security prison in Shirley, tore apart a book to make a tool for jamming the door of Geoghan's cell, Worcester District Attorney John Conte said. Druce, who's serving a life term for killing a gay man, "has a longstanding phobia, it appears, toward homosexuals of any kind . . . He is filled with longstanding hate," Conte said.</p>