Convicted pedophile attacked by victim’s mother outside courtroom

By Calvin Palmer
A New Jersey mother today attacked the man who molested her 14-year-old daughter and inappropriately touched her teenage friend just moments before he was sentenced in court.
The 41-year-old mother started pummeling Pascual Gonzalez, 39, of Roxbury, in a corridor at the Superior Court in Morristown.
The mother, from Dover, was restrained by Morris County [...]

Mother accused of choosing prayer over medical treatment for dying daughter

By Calvin Palmer
A mother’s claim that she was unaware her 11-year-old daughter was close to death with untreated diabetes was refuted by her sister-in-law in a Wisconsin court today.
Leilani Neumann, 41, is accused of second-degree reckless homicide in the death of her daughter, Madeline Kara, on March 23, 2008.
Prosecutors argue that any reasonable parent would [...]

School student shoots himself after aiming shot at teacher

By Calvin Palmer
A student shot himself in the head at a middle school in Louisiana today after he pointed a gun at a teacher and fired over he head.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said the 15-year-old student fired one shot inside a classroom at Larose-Cut Off Middle School and then went into a bathroom and [...]

Maureen Dowd admits ‘unintentional’ plagiarism from blogger

By Calvin Palmer
The doyenne of American liberals, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, has admitted plagiarizing a paragraph from a prominent liberal blogger in her column.
Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to The Huffington Post yesterday and The New York Times corrected her column online to give proper credit for the material to Talking [...]

Survivor from ill-fated boat charged with human smuggling

By Calvin Palmer
One of the 16 survivors of a boat overloaded with migrants from Haiti that capsized off the south Florida coast last week, killing at least nine people, was charged with human smuggling today.
Jimmy Metellus, of Haiti, faces charges of smuggling that caused the death of another person. He is due to make an [...]

Sex theme park fails to arouse Chinese officials

By Calvin Palmer
China’s Communist Party leaders were just not in the mood for the country’s first sex theme park. Before it even had chance to open to the public, the bulldozers moved in.
Love Land was due to open in October in the southwestern city of Chongqing but the government deemed it an “evil influence”.
Today the [...]