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PASADENA, Texas — Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put them up to it. Dannette R. Gillespie, 38, gave knives to her 15-year-old daughter and Vanessa Anne Ocampo, 19, then waited in the back seat of their car while the teens robbed and killed Eugene Palma, according to a probable cause warrant. ... Ocampo told investigators they went to the bar and followed Palma home when he left. Gillespie handed knives to her daughter and...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama is drawing gasps from pro-life advocates today over comments he made during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania over the weekend. The leading Democratic presidential candidate appeared to back a potential decision by his daughters to seek an abortion saying he wouldn't "punish" them with a baby. Obama's comments came in the context of off-the-cuff remarks addressing the issue of AIDS. The candidate indicated he favored teaching both abstinence education as well as sexual education and he appeared to be hard-pressed to come up with something else to say when he brought up his daughters....

An American woman fighting to get back four daughters living in the West Bank with their Palestinian father has gotten unusually high-powered help - from Barack Obama. The U.S. presidential hopeful raised the case of the Chicago-area woman in his meeting with Palestinian leaders last week, and won a promise from Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to look into the matter. And that's how the private battle between Yasser and Colleen Barghouti, which spans continents and cultures, took a public turn. In separate interviews, the two offered conflicting explanations of what brought the family to Barghouti's home village of Kobar in...

Father, have you been to the mall lately and watched an unsupervised group of teenage girls get hit on by the ubiquitous male oxygen thieves? Pretty disturbing, eh? What’s even more mind numbing is the number of beautiful young ladies who actually give these scat based boys the time of day. Unreal. Ticks you off now, doesn’t it? If you have a pre-teen niña, then more than likely after watching those mall chicks capitulate to the weird male critter’s advances, you probably just swore to God that your daughter will never grow up to be one of “those girls” who...

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican woman and her three American daughters have been caught smuggling $1.16 million worth of cocaine into Texas from Mexico, a rare case of a mother and her family trafficking drugs, U.S. customs said on Friday. The four women stashed the cocaine under their clothes and inside their 2006 Mercedes Benz and tried to cross through the Brownsville, Texas entry port from eastern Mexico. A sniffer dog alerted customs agents to the smell of cocaine emanating from the car and agents also noted unusual bulges under their clothes, finding cocaine packages on three of the...

Sir Mick Jagger parties with Jade and daughters in London's Automat nightclub By Tom Chivers Last Updated: 11:24AM BST 10/05/2008 Three generations of Jaggers were out partying this week in a trendy London nightspot.Amba, Jade and Assisi Jagger at the Automat nightclub Dominic O'Neill Amba Jagger at Automat Mick, daughter Jade and granddaughters Amba and Assisi descended upon the Automat club, in Mayfair, to celebrate the launch of an ice-pick. The children, aged 12 and 15 respectively, courted controversy by wearing outfits more suited to adults. Amba wore a black-and-white patterned mini-dress, while her sister wore a flimsy black satin...

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2008 – Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division are working with Iraqi Army troops to help create a Daughters of Iraq program to complement the work done by the Sons of Iraq. The Iraqi women in the program would be able to search other females at security checkpoints, expanding the capabilities of the Sons of Iraq currently manning the checkpoints. The Sons of Iraq are an organization of volunteers who have united to stand against terrorists in their homeland. They have been credited with helping bring peace to much of Iraq. Steve Martinez, a law enforcement professional...

A man is facing a murder charge after authorities say he shot and killed a motorcyclist who followed his daughters home from a department store. Richard Harold Gear, 45, claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot Bryan Joseph Mough around 6:45 p.m. Monday as Mough drove his motorcycle past Gear's house, Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said. The daughters, ages 17 and 19, had called their father on a cell phone to tell him they were being followed, Berry said. As they arrived home, Gear was waiting at the end of his driveway with a pistol, Berry said....

(AP) WEARE, N.H. First, a father was charged with beating up his daughter's boyfriend last week after learning the two had sex. Now, police are preparing to charge the boy with sexual assault. The 17-year-old boy from Henniker, who admitted to having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend, will "absolutely" be charged, police said. Weare Detective Lou Chatel said the boy will be charged as an adult and could face up to a year in jail. Both teens admitted to having sex during school hours on Sept. 10, but off school property, Chatel said. That afternoon, he said, the girl's father...

Next month, about 80 young girls from southern Arizona will head off to an extended Girl Scout camp for free. "Operation Red Shirt" gives young girls with a parent deployed overseas the chance to attend Girl Scout camp whether they're a scout or not. Seven year old Emma Guerry is very excited about her first day of summer camp. "It's on Mountain Lemmon," said Emma with a laugh. The Mount Lemmon camp is an all girl's camp for military daughters with at least one parent serving overseas in the war. "Kids coming back to school in the fall don't always...

Source: University Of Edinburgh Date: July 10, 2007 Best Males Have Less Successful Daughters Science Daily — The strongest and fittest of a species might be expected to produce the best offspring, but this is not always the case, researchers at the University have found. Red deer stag. (Credit: iStockphoto/Roger Whiteway)Studies of red deer published recently in Nature suggest that the most successful males are more likely to produce less fertile daughters. Male and female deer need different attributes to succeed. Genes which prove to be an advantage in fathers don't necessarily prove beneficial in daughters. Males who win fights...

This morning my wife and my daughter left for a cruise. The old man had to stay behind and work. My daughter hugged and kissed me at 4:30 in the morning, as they left the house. I had given her the money to go on this cruise. My daughter and I had been at odds for a while. This was a bribe, pure and simple. I love that little girl more than she will ever know. Even if she is 23 years old, she is still my little girl, and she will always be my little girl. She is the...

In the last two years, international organizations and Asian nations have stepped up their efforts to eliminate sex-selective abortions, which have created a massive dearth of girls in many nations over the past 20 years. With the new year, some new statistics have been released. The result of these efforts? The sex imbalance continues to worsen, not improve, thanks to the ever-increasing spread of cheap abortion and ultrasound technology into more and more areas of China, India, and other countries. One expert who spoke at the United Nations estimates that up to 200 million women and girls are missing worldwide...

Benton Harbor, MI - A Benton Harbor father is charged with murdering his own daughter. Friends say there had been on-going friction between 60-year-old Albert Ellington and his 12-year-old daughter, Albertnisha for some time. Sunday night, an apparent argument ended with Albertnisha being stabbed to death. Shocking tragedy Albert Ellington just got custody of his two pre-teen daughters late last year. Friends say the meek, mild-mannered man apparently snapped after, what they say, was physical and mental abuse by his daughter. As Albert was arraigned for killing his 12-year-old daughter, those who knew of the situation inside their Hurd Street...

IT was not so long ago that men and women voted along similar lines. Both sexes went overwhelmingly for Richard Nixon in 1972 and narrowly for Jimmy Carter in 1976. Today, though, the gender gap — that men lean right and women lean left — has become a political truism, and a series of new studies suggests that gender plays an even bigger role in politics than many believed. Having a son tends to make parents more conservative, it appears, while a daughter makes them more liberal. The parental has become the political. snip... In Germany, two-thirds of people who...

Daughters, as Mr Bennett observed in Pride and Prejudice, can be a trial. But he never suggested that they were less likely to make him vote Tory. That conclusion comes from new research analysing the data in the British Household Panel Survey. Professor Andrew Oswald and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee have found a link between female offspring and a propensity to support Labour or the Lib Dems. Sixty-six percent of Britons with three sons and no daughters voted for one of the two parties, but 78% of parents with three daughters and no sons did so. The academics also found that...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2005 – Passion for his country, pride in his soldiers and acceptance of his own personal sacrifice are traits exuded by Col. Abbas Fadhil, the Iraqi military commander in Taji, Iraq, a senior Defense Department official recalled here after meeting him in Iraq. Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Allison Barber, who led a group of military analysts on a visit to Iraq the week of Oct. 17, said that in the first several months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the colonel began recruiting soldiers to join the new Iraq military. After he had been on television several...

Dropping Everything KONA NATIVE FINISHES THIRD TOUR OF IRAQ IN AIR DELIVERY PLATOON (Freeper Note: Kona is a town on the West coast of the Big island of Hawaii.)BY KIM EATON WEST HAWAII TODAY Lorrin Bush and two of his four daughters Kayla, left, and Malia. KIM EATON | WEST HAWAII TODAY Lorrin K. Bush is no stranger to Iraq. Over the last two years, he's seen more of the barren country than he has of his wife and four daughters. A gunnery sergeant with the Marine Corps, the 35-year-old Kailua-Kona native leads a group of 12 men and women...

Question: Is there a way that I as a father can influence my daughter's attitude toward boys? If she chooses to marry, she will need to understand men and know how to relate to them. Is that something I should be thinking about? Dr. Dobson: You bet it is. Long before a girl finds her first real boyfriend or falls in love, her attitude toward men has been shaped quietly by her father. Why? Because the father-daughter relationship sets the stage for all future romantic involvements. If a young woman's father rejects her, she'll spend her life trying to find...

Dear God, Tomorrow I go off to war Tonight I kneel in prayer I've got some things to ask you, God Because I know you care I go to fight for freedom Leaving family behind You protect so many families I pray you'll look after mine Please bless my wife with strength, Lord And confidence each day Help her see what we already know... She's always led the way Bless her with the knowledge To do the things I've always done Let her know I'll gladly do them all After the battle is won Bless my sons and bless my...

In a particularly ugly election-eve attack, a top Democratic National Committee official attacked first daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush for what he said was their lack of morality. Appearing on WWRL radio in New York City, DNC Deputy Chairman Ben Johnson was debating whether moral issues like gay marriage and abortion were behind the recent trend among African American voters toward Bush. Suddenly Johnson got personal, telling co-hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter: "Let me say this. No one has a monopoly on morality in this country. If you want to talk about morality, I mean, look at George Bush's...

Many of us ladies, when we wre growing up, learned handcrafting: Knitting, sewing, embroidery, tatting, crocheting. Some of us learned these arts from our mothers, grandmothers, or maybe a close aunt, even an older sister. Some of us learned these skills in Girl Scouts. Have any of you who learned these arts while growing up continued to improve your skills over the years? Are you now teaching your own daughters to work with their hands or are the genteel arts becoming a thing of the past? For those of us who never learned to handcraft in our youth but would...

on Sunday night when John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, the MTV youth were expected to welcome his daughter's as pop culture princesses. Instead, in an era of the unexpected, the daughters of the Democratic candidate were met with cheers -- AND JEERS -- during the live broadcast in Miami. From the moment Alexandra and Vanessa started speaking, the boos outweighed anything close to cheers, and the reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two...

Memo to Alexandra Kerry: Next Time Try Underwear! Those Kerry daughters! What will they do next to help their dad’s campaign? Back in March, 27-year-old Vanessa Kerry, weighing in on foreign policy, opined out of nowhere that George W. Bush had orchestrated the ouster of Haitian former president/Marxist dictator Jean-Bertrande Aristide. (Her father loyally backed her up, saying he’d heard the same thing from "a very close friend in Massachusetts who talked directly to people who have made that allegation." Oh really? Only double hearsay, as The Free Republic noted.) Vanessa, by the way, is in charge of the "youthquake"...

American culture grows more crass by the day. One of the most successful American TV shows is The Apprentice starring Donald Trump, a man loaded with money but bankrupt of class. The highlight of the show is when Trump humiliates potential employees by barking at them, "You're fired!" One can only grieve over a culture that promotes a coarse womanizer who has dumped a wife or two in favor of young models as its symbol of professional success. Indeed, watching people be humiliated is big business on American TV. Shows such as American Idol feature judges like Simon Cowell –...

Che Guevara daughter's fury over 'image exploitation' The daughter of Che Guevara says she is trying to stop capitalists from exploiting her father's famous image. The world-renowned image is from a snapshot taken of the bearded and beret-wearing revolutionary leader by photographer Alberto Diaz in 1960 in Havana, Cuba. "It cannot be that they are using it on bottles of vodka, bottles of rum," Aleida Guevara said in reference to the prevalent use of the "Che" image by businesses for advertising and profit-related ventures. Ms Guevara said she and other relatives are currently going through legal channels to prevent businesses...

HANAU, Germany -- Even though he was deployed to Iraq at the time, Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Henry was able to spend time with his 22-year-old twin daughters over Christmas, opening gifts together, celebrating midnight Mass and sharing a holiday dinner. Only Henry wasn’t at home on R&R, he was with his daughters at the base all three have called home since their unit deployed from Minnesota more than nine months ago. The Henrys, from Royalton, Minn. – Dan and Spcs. Amy and Amanda Henry -- are all part of the National Guard’s 142nd Engineer Battalion, currently attached to...

  In January of this year, 2003, a bill was introduced both in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives which would re-institute the military draft. This bill would not only allow the government to draft our sons however (as bad as that is itself), but it would also allow the government to draft our daughters into the military for two years. Recently, I was listening to a Christian radio talk show discussing this bill. The question laid out to the Christian men was - what do you think about the government wanting to draft your daughters into the...

Susan B. Anthony: Lying Victim Feminist Who's Lying to You About Early Feminism? by Art Lemasters September 13, 2003   Readers who enjoyed the last review about early feminists' racism will like this one. Women who have digested Susan B. Anthony essays or books that were sifted into pretty stories by feminist writers will be shocked. Learned anti-feminists will find new answers. Follow the links! Let's go Web surfing again.   Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda J. Gage were dishonest, man hating, victimhood feminists. Most articles, essays, books and columns about early feminism have been sanitized...

Saddam Hussein's eldest daughters paid an astonishing tribute to their father in a television interview yesterday, sending their love and prayers to the fallen despot even as they began a new life in exile in neighbouring Jordan. Praising him as a "very good father" with a "big heart", Raghad and Rana Hussein alternated between lavish praise of their family, and expressions of love and gratitude for their hosts in Amman. Raghad, 36, and Rana, 34, and their nine children, were granted asylum by King Abdullah on humanitarian grounds, amid reports that they had lived lives of misery and house arrest...

Woman discovers she isn't her daughter's real mum A Brazilian woman who took a DNA test to prove the identity of her daughter's father was shocked to find out she wasn't her real mother. Tereza Menas and her former boyfriend took DNA tests because her nine-year-old daughter wanted her father's name on her birth certificate. But when the tests came back the results said neither were the girl's biological parents. Two further tests gave the same result. It's now believed staff at the Santa Casa Hospital, where she had her baby in 1994, may have swapped Mrs Menas' baby for...

What Do Daddies DO? June 7, 2003 by Isaiah Flair Now playing: "Daddy Day Care"!I'm always amazed by the "Three Men and a Baby" motif of popular entertainment, which declares that men who can build a computer from scratch are somehow supposed to be befuddled by the changing of a diaper or warming of a bottle. It's silly, and to such an extreme extent that one wonders what the motivation for such ridiculous portrayals are.Physical tasks involved in childraising are fairly simplistic. Presuming one signs on to bottle-feeding as acceptable, as I and millions of others do, the day-to-day...

Invite us to UK say Saddam's two daughters By Philip Sherwell in Baghdad (Filed: 08/06/2003) The eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein has broken her silence to tell The Telegraph that she and her sister have no plans to seek asylum in Britain, as it would not be "appropriate". Raghad Saddam Hussein, who remains in hiding in Iraq with her sister, Rana, said they might, however, move to Britain if they were granted visas. Last week their cousin, Izzi-Din Hassan al-Majid, who lives in exile in Leeds, told a newspaper that the sisters wanted to apply for asylum in Britain. Making...

The cousin of Saddam Hussein has landed in Britain, airport officials confirmed. Izzi-Din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid is believed to be organising asylum applications on behalf of the former Iraqi dictator's two daughters, Raghad and Rana Hussein, in Britain. Officials at Leeds Bradford airport confirmed a KLM flight from Amsterdam landed this morning with Mr al-Majid on board. A large group of reporters had gathered in the arrivals lounge at the airport hoping to speak to the former dictator's cousin. It is understood Mr al-Majid was spoken to by immigration officials before being allowed to continue his journey. Raghad and Rana...

Just got off the phone with my 6th grade, 12 yr old daughter "B__"'s dad. Seems at school lunch Monday, she sat down at the table with her usual group of friends and one of them said "Why is B__ here?" My daughter B__ said "because I have friends here?", at which point they all got up and moved to another table, telling her she wasn't welcome in "the group" anymore. She didn't tell me or her father this until last night at dinner when he took her out just the two of them, breaking into tears three times hysterically....

Teach our Daughters to Shoot Day Yes, folks, today is the day. April 24th is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day®. What used to be known simply as Take Our Daughters to Work Day has now been expanded and improved to include the male gender. The idea seems innocent enough: expose our children to the working world, give them an idea of what career they may want to pursue, encourage boys and girls to look outside the stereotypical gender roles and broaden their vocational horizons. But as Lisa De Pasquale, Program Director at Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute,...

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HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Front page Feb. 18, 2003, 12:42AM Note offers chilling insight Dad apologized before killing girl By MIKE GLENN Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle TEXT OF NOTE The Harris County Sheriff's Department released portions of a handwritten note left by Purnell "Rick" Cauley, who killed his wife, three daughters and girlfriend days before killing himself: (Note: All errors represent those contained in the message.) 2/12/03 When: 2/10/03 @ 5:50 p.m. I shot my wife, Gidget, daughter, Elizabeth and daughter Victoria in the kitchen. I put Victoria and Elizabeth in the barrel. ... I was going to attempt to conceal...

North American Report/Fatherhood At-Home Dads Gather and Bond by Kristyn Komarnicki in Des Plaines, Illinois At a November 21 convention in suburban Chicago, 100 American men gathered to network, listen to experts, and exchange strategies for improving job performance. But any resemblance to corporate America ended there. Dress was casual, the atmosphere noncompetitive, and topics included ways to support working spouses, tips on defusing a two-year-old's temper tantrums, and the desire to see more diaper-changing tables installed in men's restrooms. Giving voice to the growing ranks of men engaged in full-time fatherhood, the third annual At-Home Dads Convention in Des...

When Eric and Jody courted during graduate school, they assumed that when the time came to raise a family, Eric would work and Jody would stay home with the kids. Six years later, things looked different. "I liked my job, but Jody loved hers," says Eric. "Jody made lots more money than I ever could have. It became clear to each of us that she should work and I should stay home. We came to this decision through a lot of prayer and by discussing it with our church friends ad nauseum."Three children later, Eric is passionate about being a...

How old is your daughter? 13? 14? If that's the case, are you sure you know where she is right now? You need to be. You need to be extremely aware of who she is talking to and who she is hanging with. The reason why is simple. Some medical "professionals" are aiding those who would like to rape or sexually assault her and they will aid them again and again and again - as long as they can make $285-$710 per rape or sexual assault. The really strange thing about it is - that most likely you or your...

A man is accused of beating two of his daughters to death with a stick as they slept at their home in Karachi. Police in Pakistan say he also critically injured their 12-year old sister because he was angry she was attending school. All three girls were rushed to a local hospital in Hyderabad, where two of them, aged 2 and 4, died.

Daughters, gay mother face off in court today Teen runaways fight to go to church school By JO ANN ZUNIGA Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Two teenage girls who say they ran away from home because they cannot condone their mother's homosexuality will face her in court today in a fight over who should decide where they go to high school. While it may be unusual for such a dispute to reach the courthouse, gay-rights activists say family conflicts over sexuality issues are common. "We see every combination," said Clarence Bagby, a board member with the local chapter of Parents, Families...

Thursday, 25 July, 2002, 16:28 GMT 17:28 UK Pakistan killers offer girls for freedom Police have been accused of failing women Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into reports that four convicted killers sought to buy their freedom by offering girls in marriage to relatives of their victims. This is a negation of Islamic law Zia Ahmad Awan,human rights lawyer According to local press reports, the four men had been sentenced to hang for murdering two men in the village of Mianwali in Punjab province in 1988. The killers eventually cut a deal with the families of the...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 19, 2002 Tracing a path of deceptionStar-Telegram Last of three parts Jack Thomason's family believed that if they could find their missing father's money, they would find him. "As much as he loved his family and his money, there's no way he would walk off and leave them - especially not his veteran's pension, his Social Security and his trailer park," said Jack's cousin-in-law Odis Martin. A natural-born hustler and ex-Marine, Windsor "Jack" Thomason was 64 the last time he had a face-to-face conversation with one of his six grown children. Soon after that Christmas...

Posted on Mon, Mar. 18, 2002 Dead reckoning Little proof of life, and many signs of foul playBy JENNIFER AUTREY Star-Telegram Staff Writer Second of three parts The missing-person report was six months overdue. For months, the children of Windsor "Jack" Thomason of Rendon had been demanding that his fourth wife, Amanda, explain where he was. None of his six children had seen their father since Christmas 1991, although Amanda had passed along messages. As Amanda's excuses for his absence grew stranger - he suffered from exotic diseases, he was on the lam from gangsters or law enforcement -...

Posted on Sun, Mar. 17, 2002 Dead reckoning By Jennifer Autrey Star-Telegram Staff Writer `First of three parts' Even the children who love him admit that there are plenty of people who might have contemplated killing Windsor Denman Thomason. The rotund former Marine sergeant barked orders at everyone, occasionally bootlegged liquor from Mexico, laughed as he ejected deadbeat tenants from his trailer park and regularly spent time behind bars in the Tarrant County Jail. For decades, Jack, as he was called, vexed the police, his lawyer, his ex-wife and even his own children with his foolish hustles. Then he...