The culture wars in this country have grown so acute that we can’t even agree to support a patriotic, faith-affirming, achievement-oriented group like the Girl Scouts. I smile when girls from the local troop stand nervously on my doorstep and ask me to buy Thin Mints and Trefoils. I see the next generation of a treasured institution about to celebrate 100 years of giving girls a chance to hike and camp, learn skills such as gardening and first aid, and build character and leadership. Read full article > >

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Robert McCartney: Don’t fall for smears against the Girl Scouts

A   New York Times story on Friday that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows: “We know absolutely nothing about this rumor except what six people told us anonymously about this guy who they say sexually assaulted this girl. We don’t know who she is or what she said, or really anything, but here’s HIS name and what ‘they’ say about him.” Read full article > >

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BERLIN — A man dressed as Santa drugged a 15-year-old girl at a Berlin Christmas market over the weekend — the latest such attack that has seen holiday revelers left either sickened or unconscious, police said Monday. At about 10 p.m. Saturday the suspect approached the girl and her friend at Berlin’s downtown Alexanderplatz Christmas market, offering both of them what he said was a shot of alcohol in a paper cup, police said. Read full article > >

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About the daters. … Dating history as a TV show … Jeff:  John Cusack starred in my dating movie about four times. Kayla:  Attractive young professional, having a great time in D.C., but every guy she meets is training to be a pilot in the military. For some reason, men in uniform headed to flight school keep gravitating toward her. Find out in the next episode if she can meet her perfect match. Will he actually be a local and live in the area, or will this girl just declare herself a “No Fly Zone”? Read full article > >

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Date Lab: Will a Marine’s revelation take this date from ‘oo-rah’ to ‘ruh-roh’?

The 12-year-old runaway was desperate — she was out out of money and had no place to stay. So she turned to the one man her friends said could help: a top MS-13 gang member. The day after they met at a party, the man drove the girl home, let her take a shower and gave her some fresh clothes. Then he told her, “We’re going to work.” Read full article > >

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MS-13 gang is branching into underage prostitution, authorities say

An 8-year-old girl reported that a man tried to get her into a car this weekend, continuing the rash of reported attempted abductions in Spotsylvania County, authorities said. According to an alert issued by the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s County, the girl said that she was approached by a Hispanic man at approximately 4:20 p.m. Saturday afternoon in Satterfield Court in Fredericksburg. Read full article > >

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A 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the Temple Hills area as she was walking home from school Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The girl, who lived in the Temple Hills area, was walking alone in the 3100 block of Scottish Drive when a boy who appeared to be between 14 and 16-years-old grabbed her and forced her into a nearby wooded area, police said. The boy sexually assaulted the 10-year-old until he was scared away by people who heard the girl’s cries for help and went into the woods, authorities said. Read full article > >

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A 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the Temple Hills area as she was walking home from school Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The girl, who lived in the Temple Hills area, was walking alone in the 3100 block of Scottish Drive when a boy who appeared to be between 14 and 16-years-old grabbed her and forced her into a nearby wooded area, police said. The boy sexually assaulted the 10-year-old until he was scared away by people who heard the girl’s cries for help and went into the woods, authorities said. Read full article > >

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Updated: Sept. 27, 7:28 a.m. A 6-year-old girl died Monday night after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in Prince George’s County , authorities said, the second report of a child drowning in a bathtub this month. Police said the girl was found about 8:15 p.m. in a tub in an apartment in the 3500 block of Hubbard Road in the Landover area. She was taken to a hospital where she died, authorities said. Read full article > >

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When a drunk brings a stripper home and starts talking about the murderous impulses in Dostoyevsky’s “ Crime and Punishment ,” that can’t be good, can it? That’s the launching point of Zoe Mavroudi’s ultimately not very fraught “The Stenographer,” getting its international premiere at Laurel’s Venus Theatre. The drunk in this two-character, 90-minute drama is a professor on the thrilling (to him) cusp of tenure. The stripper is a near-30-year-old he ought to remember but doesn’t. So while the professor pours drinks from his elegant home bar, the girl (as Mavroudi identifies her — both characters are nameless) seethes. She’s an unlikely audience for this bookish blowhard in a natty vest and glasses, dressed as she is in her black bustier and with a pink streak in her hair. The image that Amy Rhodes seems to have in mind as she plays the part is that of a kettle about to boil; the glares she rockets at Frank Britton’s glassy-eyed professor would blow him to bits. If only he’d notice them. Read full article > >

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Theater: ‘The Stenographer’ by Zoe Mavroudi

A 5-year-old Springfield girl was abducted from her bedroom early Saturday and assaulted somewhere nearby before she made her way back home, police said. Fairfax County police said the unknown attacker broke into the townhouse in the 7000 block of Brocton Court after midnight, went upstairs and took the girl from her bed. The girl’s parents and 1-year-old sibling were at home, police said. They said the parents did not realize that the girl had been abducted until she returned home about 4 a.m. and told them what had happened. Read full article > >

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A 5-year-old girl was abducted from her Springfield house while she was sleeping early Saturday morning and assaulted outside the home before she returned, police said. Police were called to a townhouse in the 7000 block of Brocton Court shortly after 4 a.m. Detectives determined that an unknown man broke into the house sometime after midnight, went upstairs and took the girl from her bed. The victim’s parents and 1-year-old sibling were in the home at the time of the abduction, according to Fairfax County police spokesman Officer Don Gotthardt. Read full article > >

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A New Mexico man is credited with rescuing a 6-year-old after he chased down a suspected kidnapper who hurled the girl into his van and took off.

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KENNETT, Mo. — Remains believed to be a 3-year-old Missouri girl who went missing more than a week ago were found Tuesday near a series of ditches where authorities say a neighbor is suspected of dumping her body after suffocating her with a plastic bag. A joint statement sent Tuesday night from prosecutors and law enforcement officers in the area said a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer searching by boat found the body of Breeann Rodriguez near the floodway ditches about eight miles southeast of the girl’s family’s home in Senath. Read full article > >

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Officials: Remains believed to be missing girl, 3, found near ditches in southeast Missouri