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Jailing people for stupidity isn’t solving our core problems
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|By now you’ve almost certainly seen the violent online videos and witnessed the horrendous conduct of a 39-year-old Palmetto, Fla., woman who vocally encouraged her 16-year-old daughter and cheered her on as the girl engaged in a fist-fight with another 16-year-old girl. The five-minute-long physical battle that occurred almost two weeks ago involved a confrontation…
It’s National Child Passenger Safety Week: Have you Checked Your Child’s Car Seat Lately?
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|When you drive with children in your vehicle, you are driving with precious cargo. As a reminder about keeping our children safe when traveling in motor vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has designated this week, Sept. 19 to 25, as 2010 National Child Passenger Safety Week across the U.S. On Saturday, Sept.…
Justice, the death penalty and convicted murderer Teresa Lewis
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|In 2002, Teresa Lewis conspired with her lover and another man to kill her husband and stepson to collect on a $250,000 life insurance policy. The guilt of the Pittsylvania County, Va., woman has never been in question. What has been in dispute, however, is whether she is mentally competent to face the penalty which…
Update: School district reaches settlement in lawsuit over search of teen’s cell phone in sexting case
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|Student’s case against the district attorney still being pursued Remember that teen texting incident in the Tunkhannock Area School District in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming County last year, where several teens became embroiled in a legal controversy over some naked and semi-naked photos taken with a cell phone camera? In a statement today, the American Civil Liberties…
The Megabus crash: Inadequate training and insufficient oversight lead to four tragic deaths
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|The tragic Megabus accident that killed four passengers early Saturday morning just outside Syracuse, N.Y., didn’t have to happen. The crash occurred when a Megabus driver became lost along his intended route and was apparently using his personal GPS unit to figure out where to go next. The bus was headed to Toronto from Philadelphia,…
On 9/11 and the madness of the threatened Koran burnings
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|As the ninth anniversary of the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania approached in the last several months, our attention was diverted by a small town Florida preacher who threatened to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, on this somber American day of…