Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A RapeThis story contains a description of sexual assault.Over spring break in April 2015, 13-year-old G. stopped eating and sleeping. She started having panic attacks and complained of excruciating pain. When G.’s friends and mother asked what was wrong, G. refused to tell them. Then, later that month, the video started to spread.A boy in G.’s eighth-grade class at Spring Creek Community School,... [...]
Someone Called The Cops On This Toronto Dad Because His Son Has Darker SkinAn afternoon with his son turned into a very strange encounter with police for Toronto dad Jason Thompson and his 4-year-old son Xavier.Thompson, 39, was travelling back home with his son on Tuesday from the Victoria Park transit station in the city’s east end. They boarded a bus around 2 p.m., but just a few blocks into the ride, the driver stopped the bus and said... [...]
Body of missing jet skier found, FWC saysMIAMI - The body of a 46-year-old man last seen on a personal watercraft Saturday in Miami was recovered Monday, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Lorenzo Veloz said.Officials with the FWC said Jose Montes de Oca was test-driving the jet ski when he was reported missing about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.Miami-Dade police had their helicopter in the air searching Blue Lagoon Lake behind... [...]
Lebanon: 'River of trash' chokes Beirut suburb as city's garbage crisis continuesBeirut, Lebanon (CNN)A river of stinking garbage bags snakes its way through the suburbs of Beirut, a surreal and unhygienic blight on Lebanon's cosmopolitan capital.This overflowing landfill, stretching for hundreds of meters through Jdeideh in the city's suburbs, is the consequence of the city's months-long garbage crisis -- both a symbol and a byproduct of the... [...]
Why Sandy Hook parents are suing a gun-maker
(CNN)To hear Jackie Barden and David Wheeler describe their lives today is a master class in hope.
On December 14, 2012, Barden's youngest son, Daniel, and Wheeler's son, Ben, were among those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"(My husband) Mark and I still have a great life, and we really have to remember that," Barden said, adding that their two children bring the... [...]
