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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In the latest chapter of Weinergate, the New York congressman admitted to sending messages to a 17-year-old girl , but said they were “neither explicit or indecent.” After Rep. Weiner spoke to the girl’s school group in Washington, she started…

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A German teenager who forgot to make the invite for her birthday private on Facebook wound up with quite the surprise: 1,500 people turned up. That’s fewer than the 15,000 people who responded, but was still enough to force the girl to flee her own…

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A Southeast Washington man had sex with his 17-year-old daughter and later stabbed her 15 times before dumping her body in a trash bin, federal prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors Monday charged Rodney J. McIntyre, 45, with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Ebony Franklin, whose body was found in an alley behind the 1000 block of Fairmont Street in Columbia Heights on Nov. 28. Police arrested McIntyre on Saturday. On Monday in D.C. Superior Court, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballan­tine detailed how McIntyre’s semen was found in the girl’s body, several of her friends and family members who took up about four rows in the courtroom cried out before rushing out of the room. Read full article > >

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Mexican police in Acapulco reported Thursday the death of a four-year-old-the fifth child victim of the deadly drug war in the past week. Police said the girl’s body was found next to a 30-year-old woman, and the pair were reportedly gagged and shot…

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Though Lindsay Lohan is currently waiting to see if she’ll be heading back to jail for allegedly swiping some expensive jewelry and then “forgetting” to return it, that’s not stopping folks from talking up her next film role in the hopes she’ll be able to return to acting sooner rather than later. Not long ago it was rumored that Lohan was up for the part of Lois Lane in the new Superman movie, but that didn’t seem to go anywhere for reasons that include Warner Bros. not wanting to take a risk on an actress who may be heading to prison soon. Another reason why it’ll be hard to get the girl some work is because it’s too expensive to insure her. One producer, however, feels he can insure Lohan by making sure someone is keeping an eye on her… Read More Read Comments

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Elisa Baker, the stepmother of 10-year-old Zahra Baker, was indicted Monday on second-degree murder charges in the girl’s death, a Catawba County, North Carolina, court clerk told CNN.

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Big weekend folks! We’ve finally dug ourselves out from under the cold, harsh, lackluster winter movie season, and are now beginning to see signs of things picking up again at the box office. Before you know it we’ll be into March and some much larger films will begin heading our way. For now, though, let’s take a look at what will be heating up theaters this week. Just Go With It What’s The Scoop: Adam Sandler stars as a plastic surgeon who lies about having an ex-wife while trying to seduce a younger (and ridiculously sexy) girl, and then has to create this fictional other life (complete with fake ex-wife, played by Jennifer Aniston) in order to keep seeing the girl of his dreams. Why It Might Win The Weekend: Adam Sandler equals gold at the box office, and… Read More Read Comments

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The woman who raised Carlina White has told the F.B.I. that she kidnapped the girl from Harlem Hospital.

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Late Friday afternoon, North Carolina police issued an arrest warrant for Ann Pettway, the woman who kidnapped baby Carina White 23 years ago, raised her as her own, and then vanished when the girl she called Nejra Nance recently tracked down her birth…

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The mother of a missing 17-year-old honor student from North Carolina said she was stunned to learn that “20 different guys” passed through the home where the girl was staying and that the girl was allowed to drink alcohol while visiting family in Baltimore.

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Suzi Hileman was holding 9-year-old Christina Green’s hand when the girl was shot.

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LAS VEGAS — Vegas is a karaoke-loving place. Respectable steakhouses turn into grim amateur hours at a moment’s notice. One minute you’re chewing a decent sirloin, the next some guy is shoulder thrusting his way through Warren G’s “Regulate.” So I shouldn’t have been surprised when my quiet dinner with This American Life’s Starlee Kine turned into a besotted karaoke extravaganza. But I was. It went on and on and on with mostly predictable results, but there was one moment that spread a thin layer of sweetness over the whole proceeding. A large guy in a Baltimore Ravens tracksuit got up and confessed to the audience, “I feel like an old man singing ‘My Girl.’ But I’ve been coming to CES for years and years and I already miss my wife.” This turned out to be George. After his sterling rendition of the Motown hit, Starlee and I accosted George to find out the secrets of long-term love. After all, CES seems like the kind of place where people go to destroy marriages not affirm them (in front of a crowd of strangers). “I’m old fashioned,” he said. “I don’t want nobody else.” Then he told us a very Vegas story that manages to warm the heart about getting dragged to a strip club by some old business associates when he really wanted to be talking to his wife. I’ve been coming to CES for so long, and all the guys would always want to go to strip clubs. So, I was on my phone a strip club and there is this girl in front of me on a pole and she’s dancing. She says, “You don’t like what you see? Put the phone down.” Then she says, “Who you talking to?” I say, “My wife.” And she goes, “Get the hell out of here.” I gave her the phone, and I said, “I’m here for [my coworkers] not for this.” Your mileage may vary when you hand the phone to a stripper while talking to your partner, but the moral of the story may be a good one for CES attendees to consider. As an old friend used to say, “It’s never too late to make a good decision.” So, you might have been dragged to a strip club in Vegas, but you can always pay more attention to your wife than the show. It worked for George, who decamped soon after finishing his story for the nightly chat with his wife. They’ve been married for more than 30 years.

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A California man who spent a month on the run with his 15-year-old niece is now in a San Francisco jail, and the girl is back home with her parents, according to police and relatives.

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This Thanksgiving, even progressive Americans can find plenty of progress for which we can be grateful. Let’s start with the Girl Scouts of America. When news broke that the national organization for girls had fallen off its ethical pony, many of its grass-roots members and supporters knew that the first job of a citizen is to keep your mouth open. read more

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