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Michael was such a handsome fellow. I think he had the broadest, most sincere smile I have ever seen. I remember my teen friend working out at the “Y”. He was lifting weights. His T shirt was off. He looked down at his slender teen arms and complained, “They’re so skinny. I’ve got to get some muscle.” What he did not realize is that the arms were not skinny; they were trim, perfect. I thought, “Beauty is wasted on the young, for sure.” At school I helped him with his English — how to construct a paragraph that made sense....

by Steven Ertelt Bristol, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new report indicates a teenager died just one week after having a legal abortion -- providing more evidence that legal abortions are not safe for women. Manon Jones, an 18-year-old student from Caernarfon, Gwynedd experienced heavy bleeding after the abortion and eventually died. After the abortion, Jones felt light-headed over subsequent days and began experiencing abnormal bleeding. She then became what is believed to be the fourteenth woman to have died after using the dangerous abortion drug

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Police say a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed about 20 times by a 13-year-old friend in his south Fort Worth home shot and killed the assailant on Wednesday. Investigators said the 14-year-old told police Danny Allen, 13, was visiting his house on Buffalo Springs Drive near Interstate 35 when an argument ensued and Allen began stabbing him at about 5:30 p.m. According to police, the two teenagers struggled before the 14-year-old grabbed his father's handgun and shot Allen several times. Neighbor Charles McDonald found the 14-year-old outside his house covered in blood. "Blake come running out...

A man is in the Bexar County Jail, accused of sexually assaulting a child. That child gave birth over the weekend and she says her infant son belongs to him. Police say 44-year-old Juan Manuel Cepeda was arrested Sunday night, after a 15-year-old girl came forward with the claims. Cepeda's arrest affidavit claims the rape happened in August last year. The teenager told police it was the only sexual contact she has ever had. The affidavit also shows the girl gave birth at Santa Rosa Children's Hospital on Sunday. The teen says Cepeda was a family friend who she knew...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Video was released late Monday afternoon showing a brutal beating at the hands of a gang of teenage girls. Their motivation for the attack was apparently so they could post the video on YouTube. The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That's when the sheriff's office started looking into it and learned about the video. The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he's never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home.

Ashley Qualls doesn't sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that's because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business. Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother. Now, just three years later, the website grosses more than $1 million a year, providing Ashley and her working class family a sense of security they had never really known. It all started with capitalism 101, the law of supply and demand. Ashley became interested in graphic design just as the online social networking craze...

Johannesburg - Thousands of South African teenagers were due to take part in 'kissathons' across the country Saturday in protest over a new law that bans all consensual sexual activity among under- 16s, including kissing and canoodling. The social networking site Facebook has become a rallying point for teens angered by the new Sexual Offences Act, which makes it illegal for teens to kiss, touch or rub up against each other, the Star newspaper reported.

LONDON - Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. An international group of researchers has identified 27 pre-galactic fragments, dubbed "teenager galaxies," which they hope will help astronomers understand how our own Milky Way reached adulthood. Cambridge University scientist Martin Haehnelt said his team used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Chile to monitor a section of the universe for 92 hours — the equivalent...

Teenager Charged with Hanging 6-Year-Old Neighbor GirlLast Update: 1:04 pm CORSICANA, Texas (AP) -- A neighbor of a 6-year-old girl found hanged in her family's garage has been charged in the sexual assault and death of the first-grader, police said Friday. Shaun Earl Arender, 19, is charged with capital murder in the death of Hanna Mack, whose body was found hanging from the garage rafters before sunrise Sept. 10 by her mother. Arender lived less than a mile from the Mack's rural home about 65 miles south of Dallas, Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. It wasn't immediately...

A teenager was rushed to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee. The 17-year-old downed seven double espresso coffees while working in the family's sandwich shop and was left "burning up and hyperventilating". Student Jasmine Willis, who thought the coffees were single measures, said the effects of the espresso were so severe her actions left customers bewildered. She said she started laughing and crying for no reason while serving them, but after being sent home by her father Gary the medical symptoms started. She developed a fever at home and was unable to breathe properly. Jasmine, of Stanley, County Durham, was...

METAIRIE, La. - A 17-year-old boy foiled an attempted carjacking, wrestling a gun from a would-be robber and shooting him after the man grabbed his mother, authorities said. Carl Chestnut, wounded in the head and torso, will face armed robbery charges once he is released from East Jefferson General Hospital, Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said Monday. The 53-year-old woman, whose name wasn’t released, and her son were in the drive-through line at an Arby’s Roast Beef Restaurant early Monday when Chestnut, 44, walked up and pointed a gun at her, demanding their money and the...

A Teenager is being treated in hospital for broken ribs and a punctured lung after he was attacked by a gang of Somalians in Bristol.Seventeen-year-old Andrew Webber, of Brislington, was walking back from the Avonmeads leisure park with friends on Tuesday night when he was surrounded by more than 20 men. He had gone to the Kentucky Fried Chicken take-away and was walking to the St Philip's Causeway underpass when the gang approached him and his friends carrying belts and broken pieces of wood. Andrew, a student at the City of Bristol College, is now in the Bristol Royal Infirmary...

<p>Hostage situation may be developing.</p> <p>Not many details available yet, but an incident has been reported from Mine Rd. in Bart Township in Lancaster County involving multiple gunshot victims. Dennis Buterbaugh reports live from our newsroom. abc27 has a news crew on the way. We will update with details as they become available.</p>

Junior takes the wheel BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published Oct. 8, 1995.) My son is learning to drive. This terrifies me. He's 4 years old. Well, OK, technically he's 15. But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between 4 and 15, except that when your child is 4, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles containing little toy Fisher-Price people who are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you. Whereas when your child turns 15, the state of...

Teen charged with trying to poison dad BY BETH AARON AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Lubbock police arrested and charged a 13-year-old girl with aggravated assault after she admitted trying to poison her father. Officers responded to a domestic disturbance in the 4800 block of 55th Street on Friday. The girl's father, 42, told police he had instructed his daughter to complete chores the night before. He said she refused and went to bed, Sgt. Scott Farmer said. The next morning, the father reported he woke his daughter up before he left for work and told her to complete the chores she had avoided...

My little friend C.C. has cancer and is in a worsened condition as she fights for her young teenage life. Her mother writes: "Well I guess I should have prayed for her not to get sicker instead of praying for a good day. She is still throwing up and now having chills and low grade fever..and still a lower blood pressure then normal. They are culturing her lines again. So please pray for her." FReeper are the best prayer warriors so pray please and fast.

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...

Our daughter just got her driver's license. I know that a common practice is to add such a driver to the policy, as a named insured. However, is that always necessary? I was reading the policy, and it seems to make no distinction between liability of a named insured and liability of a "family member" (which our daughter would be, according to the policy). If my reading is correct, therefore, it seems that we can leave the named insureds as being my wife and myself. Of course, I'll double and triple check. What has anyone else done in this regard?...

Soldiers’ Angels Salutes Michigan Teenager and Legislators on Efforts To Establish March 26, 2006 as First National Support The Troops DayFri Mar 24, 7:00 AM ET In this hand out photo released by U.S. military, Iraqi Army Soldiers of 4th Iraqi Army Division exit a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in support of Operation Swarmer in Samarra, Iraq, Thursday, March 16, 2006. U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest airborn assault in nearly three years, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said. The Operation Swarmer was aimed at clearing 'a suspected insurgent operating area' northeast...

BATAVIA, Ohio -- A man who neighbours say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn is charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard. Charles Martin, 66, of Union Township, near this city about 30 kilometres east of Cincinnati, shot next-door neighbour Larry Mugrage in the chest with a shotgun about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The youth was pronounced dead at hospital. Martin was being held without bond yesterday in Clermont County Jail. Police said he told them he had several disputes about neighbours walking on his lawn. But Union Township...

(AP) WAUKEGAN, Ill. A man convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl even though the victim repeatedly recanted her allegation has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The 14-year-old girl Geoffrey Donehey was found guilty of raping testified in his defense Friday, telling Associate Judge George Bridges she made up the story about her sexual encounter with Donehey. "It is a story I made up," the girl said. "And I have been writing stories I make up -- horror stories, sex stories, you name it -- since I was 3 years old." She made similar statements from the witness stand...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A 15-year-old boy allegedly killed his father then set their home on fire because he was afraid his father would find out he was failing some classes, prosecutors said. Ryan Watts was charged Friday with murdering his father, 50-year-old John E. Bruner, who was initially believed to have died in the fire earlier this week. He was charged as an adult. Watts was arrested Wednesday after an autopsy determined that Bruner died from multiple gunshot wounds and not from the fire, Santa Clara police said. According to court documents, Watts told police he took a .45-caliber...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Nov. 29, 2005) -- While many 19-year-olds juggle a busy college class load or their first part-time job back in the United States, one peer carries the responsibility of ensuring his battalion’s weapons are prepared for battle here. “It is an awesome responsibility,” said Lance Cpl. Christopher Ruiz, 19, battalion armorer, Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Radio Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force (FWD). “I don’t know too many 19-year-olds back home who can say the same thing about what they are doing.” Ruiz, whose unit is based out of Marine Corps Base, Hawaii, has been in Iraq...

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...

Teenager finds sperm donor dad on internet Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday November 3, 2005 The Guardian (UK) Using nothing more than a swab of saliva and the internet, a 15-year-old boy has tracked down his anonymous sperm donor father, according to details released today. By sending a swab taken from the inside of his cheek for genetic testing, the teenager was able to use genealogy websites to trace his father by looking for men with a matching Y-chromosome, which is passed down the male line. The genetic detective work has major implications for men who have donated sperm under...

Hi my fellow christians,Im back again asking for advice. I have a 14 yr old son who is an honors student, athelete just basically a great kid... So i think :( I have never really found a reason to snoop on him until recently, i felt very very uneasy about one of his friends. Well he has computer priveleges and i allow him his privacy. I Trusted him alot. But a few days back i installed a keyboard logger. wow Much to my surprise i found out soemthings that have me in shock. Basically the big thing is this past...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ryan Mauro, the 19-year-old author of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq and the youngest hired geopolitical analyst in the country. He is an analyst for Tactical Defense Concepts and Northeast Intelligence Network and is the owner of WorldThreats.com. He will be speaking at the 2006 Intelligence Summit on his work in open-source intelligence. FP: Ryan Mauro, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Mauro: Thank you for having me. FP: You are quite a young fellow. It is quite exceptional for a 19-year-old to be an expert in geopolitical affairs. What got you involved in...

Several houses in the 13900 block of Royal Wood Drive in Fishers were evacuated Tuesday afternoon when Fishers Police found an explosive device located inside a home. Fishers Police Officer Edward Gebhardt said a student at Hamilton Southeastern High School's Freshman Campus reported to a school resource officer that another student talked about an explosive device on the bus that morning. The resource officer then found information in the school that made him believe the student had explosive devices in his home. The student had information about bomb-making he had printed from the Internet. After finding the device, the 14-year-old...

To get a glimpse into the personal side of what Hurricane Katrina has done, read this talented teen's journal of everything that's happened to her since she learned a storm was headed towards her hometown outside of New Orleans. It's amazing in its honesty and detail.

A 16-year-old girl who had been missing since Saturday was found stabbed to death and dismembered — and police say her killer lived right next door. Jonathan Zarate, 18, appeared Monday in Morris County Court to face charges of murder, weapons offenses, and hindering apprehension in the slaying of Jennifer Parks. Zarate lived next door to Parks in their Randolph, N.J., neighborhood, and prosecutors say the 16-year-old victim left her house early Saturday morning to watch TV with Zarate. But then, authorities said, the two became embroiled in an argument that led to Parks' gruesome killing.

Teen Rescued After Three Days in Rail Car DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - A nude, dehydrated teenager was rescued after apparently spending nearly three days in a railroad tanker car that had been used to store fertilizer, but he refused to tell authorities how he got trapped, police said. A worker in the area heard 17-year-old Mark Cody White yelling Monday and found clothes beside the tanker. The teen was rescued through the car's roof opening by a firefighter who wore a protective suit because the tanker contained a residual amount of diammonium phosphate, which can cause skin irritation. White, described...

A Brooklyn teenager was ordered held without bail Monday on murder and other charges in the stabbing death of another teenager who refused to hand over an iPod. Darran Samuel, 16, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, first- and second-degree robbery, second-degree assault and fourth-degree weapons possession in the fight Saturday that led to the death of Christopher Rose, 15. Rose was stabbed twice in the chest as he waited with friends at a Brooklyn bus stop. It was the first leg home to his father in Pennsylvania, where he and his friends planned to spend the Fourth of July.

PHOENIX, AZ -- (ArriveNet - May 09, 2005) -- FPSnewswire/- A record number of young scientists and inventors arrive today to compete for $3 million in scholarships and awards at the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), presented by Agilent Technologies. Representing 45 countries, regions and territories, 1,447 high school students will spend the week meeting with senior scientists, sharing ideas and presenting projects on such varied topics as alternative fuels, water quality and organic compounds to fight infection and disease. Students range in age from 13 to 20; the split between females and males is almost...

LOS ANGELES - A 13-year-old pitcher was charged Thursday with murder for allegedly beating another boy to death with a baseball bat following his team's first loss of the season. AP Photos The alleged assailant is accused of striking 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke in the knee and again in the head after the youth league game Tuesday evening, said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Ron Smalstig. The 13-year-old and the older boy apparently had words in front of a concession stand at the Pony League park in Palmdale, about 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The accused youth will be...

Amanda Marquit poses in her New York City home January 19, 2005. Marquit at 18 already has quite a resume; child ballet star, accomplished on the piano and the electric guitar and she's just published her first novel, 'Shut the Door,' a story of teen sex and parental neglect. (Jeff Christensen/Reuters) Amanda Marquit poses in her New York City home January 19, 2005. Marquit who at 18 already has quite a resume, child ballet star, accomplished on the piano and electric guitar and she's just published her first novel, 'Shut the Door,' a story of teen sex and parental...

http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=11413 Diante Smoke, 13, was arrested shortly after the incident, at 11 a.m. Detectives are recommending the state attorney file charges of sexual battery. "Diante was in the apartment with the nine-year-old, actually went into the bathroom with her, pulled her pants down, put a condom on his penis and had vaginal sex and oral sex with her against her will," said Gainesville Police Detective Jamie Rohrbaugh. Investigators say the girl suffered vaginal bleeding, but was treated and is recovering at home. Meanwhile, many neighbors find it hard to believe Smoke was involved. "I don't think he's capable, but you...

Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when an American district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing US$156 million.The four were found liable for their roles in the murder of an American teenager, David Boim, on May 13, 1996, when he was shot by Hamas operatives as he waited for a bus near Jerusalem. This case is important in itself, providing some measure of justice and relief for the Boim family. Beyond that, it helps fight terrorism in four ways.First, it validates...

Hey Kids! Want Good Sex? Try Abstinence.Warren ThrockmortonAs a mental health counselor, I am really troubled by the numbers of adolescents that I have counseled who cried for days and hurt for years because they engaged in "safer sex" within dead end, unfulfilling relationships. Sadly, they learned that “safer sex” can be hazardous to their emotional health. I think the current political debate concerning abstinence vs. contraceptive based sexual education has failed to include an important variable in the discussion of what to teach in school: sexual well being. In many contemporary sexual education curricula, young boys and girls who...

MILNET: Those In The Know Interview with Ryan Mauro This briefing asks questions of the first analyst we have interviewed, Ryan Mauro, Ryan is a knowledgeable geo-political analyst in the commercial field (www.WorldThreats.com) whose expertise was recognized quite early in life... How would you interpret apparent U.S. Intelligence Community failures in light of information on WMD in Iraq? Intelligence on Iraq, as well as most foreign countries, was flawed. I do not think anyone can look at the present situation and be completely satisfied. Recognizing that, I have been amazed at some of the analysis regarding the WMD. First off,...

The Marion County coroner has determined that an Avon girl died from a rare bacteria that took over her body. Doctors didn't know what was wrong with Sarah Backlund when she was taken to Methodist Hospital Saturday night, RTV6's Camille Amiri reported. Doctors amputated Backlund's arm, hoping to get rid of the infection, but it was too late. The 16-year-old Avon High School sophomore died the next day. The bacteria that caused Backlund's death was determined to be clostridia septicum, also known as gangrene. "It's just a bacteria that completely overwhelms the body's immune system," Marion County Coroner John McGoff...

For the past several months I have been in correspondence by email with an teenager who became a Christian two years ago but who is considering giving up the faith to become a Muslim. Since I am well trained in apologetics and theology I've used all my knowledge to try to convince him to keep the faith. He has expressed stong appreciation for my concern a number of times but hasn't replied very often. This week on the web site where I met him he said that he plans to "take shahada" (publiclly recite the one-line Muslim creed) and become...

THE STONED COUNTER By Henry Yang Our 13 year-old daughter Kelsey meets the legal definition of insolent, and so parenting this teenager is less formidable a challenge than taming Fallujah. During frequent internecine conflicts with her mother, I can almost envision Nancy radioing for back-up. During a family excursion to Wisconsin, The Impudent One prowls around Nancy's childhood bedroom where she discovers a high school diary. Like an oil strike in Qatar, this is a rich find. While Kelsey shows an indifference to most matters academic, her concentration and focus are fully brought to bear as she delights in reading:...

Surveillance Seized in Hacking Probe 14 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Police have seized surveillance equipment from the psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly and the convenience store where he was seen twice the night his wife, Lori, presumably died. Hacking, 28, is accused of killing Lori Hacking, 27, while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin. Authorities believe the bin is at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Hacking's former employer. The equipment taken from the hospital was a digital recorder for surveillance cameras, according...

A Westmoreland County teenager is accused of distributing child pornography after police say she took sexually explicit pictures of herself and posted them on the Internet. State police in Greensburg say the 15-year-old Latrobe girl sent pictures of herself to people she met in chat rooms. Police have seized her computer and are trying to determine who received the photos. The girl is charged with possession and dissemination of child pornography.

FWD E-Mail: Please find attached information regarding the disappearance of a 17 yr old Loudon county girl. My husband, Jim, works with Christa's father. This is the second case of a disappearing 17 year old girl that we have become aware of in the last 4 days. In both cases, the girl's car was found with the keys in the ignition. The 2nd girl's father works with a friend of ours and she was a local (Columbia area) girl. Her body was found in a ravine not too far from her car. The car was found in a turn lane...

CWA Calls on FDA to Act After Another Woman Dies From Abortion Pill 9/22/2003 Surely women should not be treated as collateral damage in the pursuit of making abortion accessible. Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America (CWA) renewed its call for the FDA to withdraw its approval of the abortion pill RU-486 after reports of another woman’s death. Eighteen-year-old Holly Patterson died from an infection caused by fragments of her baby left in her uterus after she took RU-486 at a Planned Parenthood facility in California. The facility's procedure for administering RU-486, advertised on the Web site of Planned...

A doctor guilty of manslaughter after a teenage cancer sufferer was mistakenly given a fatal injection in his spine has walked free from court. Dr Feda Mulhem admitted manslaughter after he ordered a junior colleague to administer the fatal treatment to Wayne Jowett, 18. Mr Jowett, 18, had been recovering from leukaemia and died a month after the drug was injected into his spine rather than a vein. Mulhem, from Leicester, was sentenced to a total of 18 months in prison for six charges, but allowed to walk free having already served 11 months on remand. Mulhem realised his mistake...

A doctor who ordered his junior to give an injection which proved fatal to a teenage cancer sufferer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Wayne Jowett, 18, was recovering from leukaemia when Dr Feda Mulhem failed to check the drugs that were being administered to him. The drug should have been administered into a vein instead of his spine. Dr Mulhem admitted the fatal error which led to the teenager's death, Nottingham Crown Court was told. Mr Jowett died a month after the drug was injected. The teenager, from Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, was being treated as an outpatient at the Queen's Medical...

BOULDER - A teenager stuck to her story Thursday in Boulder County Court that she was molested by a Lafayette police officer. But the 17-year-old conceded under questioning by the officer's lawyer that she has a lengthy record of minor offenses and does not always tell the truth. The officer, eight-year veteran Gardner Mendenhall, is charged with sexual assault by a person in a position of authority, a felony with a maximum sentence of life in prison. He also is charged with official misconduct, a misdemeanor. Mendenhall denies the charges. The preliminary hearing Thursday was to determine whether evidence is...

<p>Aug. 18 issue — Like many teenage girls in Minneapolis, 17-year-old Stacey liked to hang out after school at the Mall of America, Minnesota’s vast shopping megaplex. Cute, blond and chatty, she flirted with boys and tried on the latest Gap fashions. One day last summer, Stacey, which isn’t her real name, says she was approached by a man who told her how pretty she was, and asked if he could buy her some clothes. “He was an older guy, dressed really well,” she recalls. “He said he just wanted to see me in the clothes.” Stacey agreed, and went home that night with a $250 outfit.</p>