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CNNs Jake tapper speaks to Illinois governor about gun legislation in his state.

<p>A teenage girl impregnated during a rape by a relative was beaten by four family members to induce an abortion in 2012, Dallas police say.</p> <p>The family then attempted to cover up the crime by burning the 8-month old stillborn baby on a charcoal grill at a home in Pleasant Grove in Dallas, according to police.</p>

It is Corbett himself who is most guilty of hesitating. Hesitating as then-attorney general to appropriately staff the Jerry Sandusky investigation, and hesitating for years to make an arrest, both of which jeopardized children. That hesitation, and Corbett’s stonewalling, has created an intense firestorm.

The 267-page document that was relied heavily upon by the NCAA in sanctioning Penn State football was never intended to use as justification for punishment, a member of the group that cultivated it said recently. In a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education, a member of the Freeh Group said the document was not “meant to be used as the sole piece, or the large piece, of the NCAA’s decision-making.”

Rod Blagojevich (is) the former Illinois governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in congress. When Obama was asked by the press if he had ever met Governor Blagojevich, Obama replied, "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."

The report of a Weare father attacking his daughter's boyfriend on school grounds after discovering the teenagers had sex earlier that day has evoked passion in readers. The boy is 17 and the girl is 15. Police say the attack happened Sept. 10 as John Stark High School in Henniker was letting out for the day and was witnessed many students. The girl's father was charged with simple assault, a class B felony. A Weare police detective was interviewing the 17-year-old from Henniker yesterday, said Deputy Chief Bill Quigley, but no charges have been filed against him. Because the girl...

WEARE – A 17-year-old Henniker boy who admitted to having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend will "absolutely" be arrested for sexual assault, police said yesterday. On top of the pending criminal charge, police said the 17-year-old also was beaten by the girl's father after the father learned the two had sex. It was Monday, Sept. 10 when the girl's father stormed school property and attacked the boy around 3 p.m., according to Turmelle. The principal said he's upset at the number of people who have sided with the father over this incident. "We all work so hard to give our...

During the ABC telecast of today's Penn State football game, announcer Craig James called Joe Paterno an 'old fart,' while congratulating Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema on his game strategy. ABC/ESPN college football spokesman Josh Krulewitz confirmed to Patriot-News reporter David Jones that James did in fact refer to Joe Paterno as an old fart. Krulewitz, reached by phone in Connecticut, didn't have any comments on the derogatory term, but said, "I'm going to have to speak with some people first." - David Jones, The Patriot-News

In June, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter sided with the 5-4 majority in the pernicious "Kelo" decision, which held that the foundering city of New London, Conn., could seize well-kept-up private homes and turn those properties over to private, third-party developers based on the developers' promises to pay more taxes. Outraged champions of property rights decided to follow precisely Justice Souter's own logic. They collected the signatures needed to place on the agenda of the March 14 Weare, N.H., town meeting a proposal that the municipality seize and demolish a 200-year-old farmhouse owned by Justice Souter to turn the...

WEARE, N.H. - Residents on Saturday rejected a proposal to evict U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse to make way for the "Lost Liberty Hotel." A group angered by last year's court decision that gave local governments more power to seize people's homes for economic development had petitioned to use the ruling against the justice. But voters deciding which issues should go on the town's March ballot replaced the group's proposal with a call to strengthen New Hampshire's law on eminent domain. "This is a game," said Walter Bohlin. "Why would we take something from one of...

Ballot initiative would ask city to seize justice's New Hampshire home The man behind the effort to have Supreme Court Justice David Souter's New England home seized by the local government to make way for a hotel is sponsoring a rally in Weare, N.H., next month, hoping supporters from around the nation will help residents collect signatures for a ballot initiative requesting the condemnation.As WorldNetDaily reported, Los Angeles advertising entrepreneur Logan Darrow Clements has spearheaded a campaign to have the city of Weare, N.H., condemn Souter's property, a modest 200-year-old farmhouse on eight acres, in retaliation for his vote approving...

“233 Years following the “Pine Tree Riot” By: Keith R. Lacasse, Vice-Chair of the Committee for the Protection of Natural Rights. October 7, 2005 We the people of Weare have a proud history of taking action to defend our rights. Back in April 1772 a group of 20 or so saw mill owners led by Ebenezer Mudgett took drastic actions to protect their private property rights, (white pine trees in this case). Back then it was made illegal to cut down or mill any white pine trees (even on your own property) without government permission and expensive permits. In one...