A mother and father accused of murdering their daughter physically abused her “every day”, her sister tells a court.

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Parents ‘abused Shafilea daily’

Bellaghy parish priest Fr Andrew Dolan says teenager Lauren O’Neill died trying to protect her sister, as police charge a man with the shooting.

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Teenager died ‘protecting sister’

Two young girls kidnapped from Tennessee after their sister and mother were slain were found alive in Mississippi, authorities said. Adam Mayes, the man accused of the murders and kidnappings, died after shooting himself, the FBI said.

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Bill Clinton created his Sister Souljah moment. Mitt Romney keeps ducking his. This says something disturbing about the current political environment. It says something even more disturbing about the soon-to-be Republican nominee. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney wimps out on Grenell

A German man sent to prison over an incestuous relationship with his sister has lost his case that the conviction violated his right to a private and family life at the European Court of Human Rights.

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A periodic peek at the Post food critic’s e-mail, voice mail and inbox. While dining with family members at Lauriol Plaza Feb. 16, Gene SirLouis says his sister-in-law returned her well-done steak, which she had requested be cooked medium-rare. “I was chatting and a little slow to start my entree,” e-mails the District reader, “but when I did, I felt like the halibut was spoiled. I mentioned it to my partner, who also ordered halibut, and he tasted his and agreed. We summoned a waiter and sent these entrees back. Then we waited. A long time for different main courses.” After the entrees were cleared, “the waiter came to the table and said that the two of us who had the halibut were getting free dessert. My sister-in-law said that she should also get dessert, since her entree was also sent back. He refused her request.” Read full article > >

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Dining critic Tom Sietsema answers readers’ questions

A few days after country singer Julie Roberts lost her record deal, she watched her car float down the block. The Sunday morning floodwaters had risen to the front door of her west Nashville home — a condo she shared with her mother, her sister and four dogs. She remembers the rain slashing away at the rooftop and the eeriness of watching the Mercedes she had just paid off silently wash away. She and her family ran upstairs, snacked on Cheese Nips and waited for a rescue boat. Read full article > >

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After lifetime of hurdles, country singer Julie Roberts ready to make music again

SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, has died after a long bout with cancer. She was 58. Dunn died Sunday morning at her home in Orinda surrounded by her family, according to her sister, Debbie Lammers. She said Dunn’s ovarian cancer had returned. Read full article > >

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Ceremony officiated by Sister Helen Prejean.

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Susan Sarandon’s Daughter Marries

UK student Meredith Kercher has been “completely forgotten” in the four years since she was murdered during a year abroad in Italy, her sister says.

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Meredith forgotten, sister fears

After watching her big brother and sister ride off to school every morning for five years, Christina Trimble was ready for her turn on Tuesday. She was wearing her ruffled jean skirt, a glittery butterfly T-shirt and slightly crimped hair from an overnight experiment with curlers. With her pink lunch bag and rolling purple backpack stocked, she knelt in the front hall of her home in Arlington County, petting her dog Sam while the kitchen clock ticked off the minutes. A little before 8:30, her family huddled on their front porch to snap pictures. Then her sister, Audrey, announced with a third-grader’s confidence, “That’s the squeak of our bus.” Read full article > >

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First day of school starts with a sometimes bumpy ride

Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in Grease and Taxi, died Friday due to complications from pneumonia, his sister told The Los Angeles Times. The 60-year-old actor was found unconscious in his home in California on May 10 and had been in a coma…

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Grease Star Jeff Conaway Dead at 60

The book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God,” by Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, examines different understandings of God.

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Bishops Urge Catholic Schools to Ban a Nun’s Book

The story of a Libyan woman who claimed she was gang-raped by Gaddafi thugs keeps getting weirder: The Libyan government is claiming that Eman al-Obeidi is now free and is in Tripoli with her sister. Four men, including a senior police officer, were…

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The in-laws want to visit the sister-in-law who has a toddler, and stay with the kidless couple.

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In-laws may be annoying, but they also may be right