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<p>The sicko New Jersey couple who starved their four sons apparently preferred their daughters - allowing them to pig out in front of the boys, authorities said.</p> <p>While the little girls could be seen frolicking in a small pool behind the family's house in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood in the summer, the tragic skin-and-bones boys were forced to wash their clothes in a bucket on the side of the house and clip the grass with small hand shears, neighbors said.</p>

<p>If you listen to the critics of last week's federal decision to relax rules on media ownership, you would think Western civilization is about to end.</p> <p>Just before Monday's final 3-to-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission, one commissioner, Michael J. Cropps, suggested the change ``empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy so heavily depend.''</p>

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Daily (Internet Version-WWW) in English 27 Mar 03 [Commentary by, deputy editor-in-chief: "Operation 'Liberation Cat'"] THREE weeks ago, a pregnant cat entered our back balcony to give birth to five kittens. We tolerated the situation with sympathy, knowing that we live in an urban compound filled with huge and monstrous stray killer cats ready to eat anything that moved except mice. On the first night, my wife woke up to the noises of a fierce cat fight. She chased away a huge and monsterous ugly-looking male cat which had made his way to the balcony, mowed...

13 year old boy shot infront of school. Police scanners on!

The case of a 50-year-old Yauco man who may have raped more than 12 girls between the ages of 4 and 15 after drugging them inside his Rio Prieto home could soon lead to federal child pornography charges, police said Friday. U.S. Customs agents have been feeding off the information provided by local police to make a move against Jose Robles Perez, who allegedly posed as a gynecologist, led victims to his office, and taped his sexual attacks, police said. U.S. Customs spokeswoman Janice Carabello confirmed Friday the case was under investigation, but refused to say when the additional charges...

British investigators flew to America to rescue a six-year-old girl who was being repeatedly raped on video by her father for the gratification of members of a highly secretive internet paedophile ring.Officers from the national high-tech crime unit discovered the girl’s ordeal - video footage of which was placed on an encrypted website - after the seizure of a computer in Bradford, West Yorks.Two officers flew to the US and, with FBI agents, local police and a child protection team, raided a house in Georgia. The girl, an only child, was at home with her married parents.A large amount of...