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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested during Thursday night's primry debate that those who back President Trump and his immigration policies are “supporting racism." During the debate, Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor and a moderator of the ABC News-hosted debate in Houston, rattled off several immigration-related Trump administration controversies, including family separations at the border, a travel ban that blocked entrance to the U.S. from seven majority Muslim countries, and dust-ups over the president's own incendiary rhetoric. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., was asked if people who support Trump and his immigration policies are racist. “Anybody who supports...

BELLEFONTE – Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky lashed out Friday at former friends and neighbors whose complaints prompted prosecutors this week to seek his confinement inside his State College house. Sandusky's remarks to reporters came moments after a court heard testimony that several people had expressed concern over his frequent presence on his back deck, yards from a neighboring elementary school. "All of a sudden these people turn on me when they've been in my home with their kids, they've attended birthday parties here for my grandchildren, they've been on that deck and in that yard," he...

The astonishing news in the past couple of weeks out of State College, Pennsylvania has left America reeling. It is not so much that a monster like former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky would do the atrocious things he reportedly did to at least 8 boys, but that it appears a massive cover-up allowed him to continue his detestable treatment of those poor kids who were under his “care.” Sandusky is charged with 40 criminal counts, 21 of them felonies, relating to sexual assault on at least 8 boys, some possibly as young as 7 or 8 years...

Big Brothers-Big Sisters chapter director pleads guilty to sex crime NEWARK, Ohio An Ohio man who headed up a chapter of Big Brothers-Big Sisters has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing one of the children he worked with. James Russell has pleaded guilty to 25 sex-abuse charges involving a boy he'd mentored. Russell is now the second person in two years who worked for the central Ohio organization to be convicted of a sex crime. His victim is now 19 years old and tells police that his mentor abused him for seven years.

A New Jersey actor who reportedly played prominent roles in a homosexual-themed play paralleling the life of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to six years in prison after his conviction for seeking sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy he met on the Internet. Steven Shriner, right, plays Mary and Peter in 'Corpus Christi' (photo: Ulysses Theatre Comany) Steven Shriner, 43, was convicted in August of attempted sexual assault, attempted luring/enticing of a child, and attempted criminal sexual contact. "This sentence represents a solid victory for the citizens of New Jersey, effectively keeping a convicted sex offender and...

<p>SANTA ANA, Calif. — A convicted child molester serving a life sentence was freed after an appeals court ruled he never had a chance to confront his accuser -- a teenager who committed suicide before the man's trial.</p> <p>To the chagrin of prosecutors and even his sister, Edward Harvey Stokes (search) was released from jail last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Officials believe he has left the state.</p>

<p>July 29, 2003 -- Former city official Russell Harding, who faces up to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges, was drawn to the seedy underworld of Internet sex chat rooms because he was too embarrassed to tell his family and political friends he is gay, his psychiatrist claims.</p>

Late last year, a male day care employee named "Darryl" followed a 4-year-old boy into the bathroom of a First Hill day care center, sexually assaulted the boy, then warned him not to say a word, court papers say. But several months later, the boy did -- telling his mother, and later a social worker, about the encounter with the man at Our Place Daycare on East Spring Street. "He said he's gonna kill me if I tell," court papers say the boy said of his alleged assailant. Yesterday, authorities said the boy's graphic account, detailed in court papers, led...

REDMOND -- A 65-year-old Redmond schoolteacher and soccer coach honored by the city has been suspended by the Lake Washington School District and his soccer association amid allegations of sexual misconduct. A 35-year-old former student now living in Texas told police last week that the teacher molested him and his younger brother while their teams were on soccer trips more than 20 years ago. The abuse, the former student alleged, continued over a five-year period. Betsy Cable, a Redmond police spokeswoman, said the man came forward after learning the teacher had won the "hometown hero" award. "He said he wanted...