| Juvenile detention centers record 13,000 claims of abuse in 4 years
COLUMBIA, Miss. (AP) _ The Columbia Training School pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi. If some of those girls and their advocates are to be believed, it is also a cruel and frightening place. The school has been sued twice in the past four years. One suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, which the state settled in 2005, claimed detainees were thrown naked in to cells and forced to eat their own vomit. The second one, brought by eight girls last year, said they were subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse." Several of the detainees said they were shackled for 12 hours a day. These are harsh and disturbing charges and, in the end, they were among the reasons why state officials announced in February that they will close Columbia.
Prepare for tough times in economy
You only do that in the most absolute desperate situation," Dvorkin said. Eastsider Adriana Molina and her husband, Eddie, have been working on creating an emergency savings fund since last November. The couple have three children, ages 3, 9 and 12, and want to make sure they have a savings cushion, especially since Adriana works part time and .
Amateur film stunt results in near-hanging
A man in Burnaby, B.C., is recovering in hospital after an amateur attempt to film his own fake hanging nearly turned real. The 23-year-old man and his 22-year-old friend went to a park in north Burnaby on Thursday afternoon to stage the mock hanging and capture it on video. "The males thought they were well prepared and had taken the proper safety precautions by having the one male wear a harness," the RCMP said in a statement. "Unfortunately, things did not go as planned and the male was unintentionally hung from the rope he had placed around his neck. "Due to the fact this was intended to look like a real hanging, the male filming it let his friend hang for a short time before realizing that something had gone wrong." Eventually the friend realized the man was unconscious and called 911 while he attempted a rescue.
Not on my TV
Pay the money for...get in your car....Dexter...well...you just have to walk over to the television and turn it on. Maybe your kids will see it on a sleepover at someone else's house. It won't make them psychotic but it will pollute their mind somewhat...a steady diet of it could make someone twist off. I am not going to watch it, and I have that right. It is not "Bible thumping". It is my choice. The ones in here that express that they are going to watch should not think they have a monopoly on opinion or cause. .
Iraq Casts Shadow on Ohio, Texas Votes
In an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll in December, nearly half of all respondents said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports immediate withdrawal of troops, while just over a third said they would be less likely to do so. Only 15 percent said a candidate's war position would make no difference. Backing for the war divides sharply along partisan lines. A staggering 92 percent of Democrats in that poll said they opposed the war while 65 percent of Republicans favored it. Another result could bode ill for McCain: 77 percent of independents also said they oppose the war. That swing voting group is critical in the general election. The change in public sentiment about the war over the last five years is evident in McConnelsville, Ohio. As the war began in March 2003, this sleepy Appalachian town bid farewell to what was then the largest single deployment of Ohio Army National Guard troops in a single unit, some 433.
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