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The Elliot Institute has released a report that exposes America's forced abortion epidemic. Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Solby tells OneNewsNow that one study found 64 percent of women who had abortions reported they felt pressured to abort by others. "Something like 80 percent of them said that they didn't get the counseling they needed to make a good decision, that often they were not given counseling at all, or that the counseling they had was inadequate," she explains.

Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff. Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details. “As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency. “While taking this action is never easy,...

Murder defendant had nearly 600-page case file as juvenile Judge opted not to send teen to adult court in 2004 burglary-arson case Friday, January 9, 2009 10:30 PM By Holly Zachariah and John Futty THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Charlie Myers said this week that when he shot a woman to death in her Dayton-area home on Jan. 2, it was the first time he'd ever had a gun. That was a lie. On March 5, 2004, when Myers was just a few months shy of his 18 t h birthday, he broke into his neighbor's home in Union County and stole...

I found this at AtlasShrugs.com and it is a video that ought to go viral. The more people who can download it to their hard desks for keeps the better, Warning- there are some extremely violent scenes, and also scenes with semi-nude male prisoners with head covered, though probably not with panties.

Not content to just limit their embarrassing comments to the usual inappropriate times, namely while a flag-draped coffin is being unloaded from its journey home, the Taliban-friendly unwashed among us has swarmed to the issue of one Capt. Robert Semrau who has been slapped with a murder charge.

PORT ANGELES, Wash. – A 16-year-old girl suspected of drowning an infant boy in a toilet and throwing the body in the trash was charged with murder Wednesday...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man shot in the back 35 years ago has died of complications from the shooting and his death has been ruled a homicide - but prosecutors fear the trail for the suspect has long ago gone cold......

A family tragedy has begun unraveling as a 19-year-old soldier on leave appeared in court on accusations he killed and raped his 17-year-old sister. Steven Kelsey, home for the holidays from basic training with the U.S. Army, stood mute on charges of first-degree murder and felony murder Saturday morning during an arraignment in Oakland County Circuit Court. If convicted, he faces life in prison. The body of his sister, 17-year-old Jesika Kelsey, was found Thursday in the bedroom of a mobile home in the 40 block of Grant Drive in the Highland Greens Mobile Home Park, off of Milford Road...

Washington, DC -- Barack Obama has named the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department. Thomas Perrelli, who won an award for representing Schiavo's former husband, had severed on Obama's transition team. Full story at: http://www.LifeNews.com/bio2685.html

The cross-dressing Harvard-educated millionaire dermatologist who murdered his wife in their North Shore home in 2000 was found dead in his cell at MCI-Norfolk last night after he hanged himself, prison officials tell the Herald. Dr. Richard Sharpe – who was also charged with hatching a plan to escape from jail shortly after he was charged with murder – was found in his cell at 7:26 p.m. last night, said Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin. Wiffin said Sharpe, who blasted his wife in the chest with a shotgun, hanged himself with a bedsheet. According to a prison source, a...

A New Orleans father murdered his 2 1/2 yr. over a dispute of an order to pay child support.

Look what just happens to be down the street from where I am staying? Imagine that! I guess it will make it easier to see the Restraining Order from Harris County, and Ft. Bend Counties served and the criminal complaints against the original M&N processed in person. It is set, Scott and Laurie Covington and Mr. Donald Covington have had criminal felony fraud complaint sworn out on the Piano Store presenting a forged authorization and pulling a credit report using a fraudulent application and authorization. Happy New Year M&N! There are also New Years gifts of RO's going out in...

A Mexican citizen and former Houston gang member was deported to his native country Monday to answer murder charges in connection with the deaths of two women during a robbery earlier this year. Carlos Garcia-Hernandez, 19, was turned over to Mexican officials on the Brownsville International Bridge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Garcia-Hernandez was a member of the "Houstone" street gang. He was arrested Dec. 11 after ICE received word that Mexican authorities were seeking him. The homicides were committed during a robbery in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in March. Three other individuals involved in the killings already are serving...

Fifteen-year-old Sharell Butler has been charged with two savage murders, but the baby-faced Bloods gang member is still her daddy's little girl. The teen's father, James Butler, defended her a day after she was arraigned for dismembering one man and helping kill another in a pair of drug-related slayings. "[Our] families are devastated," Butler said Sunday. "I feel sorry for the victims and their families." --------- Snip The victims John Hopkins-Drago was found dead on Dec. 21. Christopher Umpierre was found dead on Dec. 19. ---------------------------- snip

At one time, England’s King Henry II and Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. Their ties were so strong that Henry named his friend to the powerful position of Archbishop of Canterbury. The relationship soon soured as the two strong-willed men challenged one another over the relative supremacy of the Church versus the State. At one point King Henry supposedly became so exasperated that he cried out in desperation to his courtiers “Who shall rid me of this meddlesome priest!” Taking this as a cue to act, four of Henry’s knights rushed to Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of...

(snip)The FBI reported 10,067 arrests in murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in 2007. Half of the people arrested — 5,078 — were black. Almost 10 percent of black people arrested for murder were under age 18, the FBI data show.(snip)Seizing on President-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration as an opportunity for more funding, Fox added: "There is an urgency for reinvestment in children and families. In essence, we need a bailout for kids at risk."(Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study)

The murder rate among black teenagers has climbed since 2000 even as murders by young whites have scarcely grown or declined in some places, according to a new report. The celebrated reduction in murder rates nationally has concealed a “worrisome divergence,” said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who wrote the report, to be released Monday, with Marc L. Swatt. And there are signs, they said, that the racial gap will grow without countermeasures like restoring police officers in the streets and creating social programs for poor youths. The main racial difference involves juveniles ages 14...

Suspect in Dallas, Garland freeway shootings dies08:03 AM CST on Friday, December 26, 2008By RICHARD ABSHIRE / The Dallas Morning Newsrabshire@dallasnews.com A former Utah Highway patrol trooper suspected in a series of deadly roadside attacks in Dallas and Garland died Christmas Eve as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Brian G. Smith, 37, died Wednesday night at Parkland Memorial Hospital, said nursing supervisor Arthur Clarke. Family said Mr. Smith was taken off life support Tuesday evening. Garland police said Mr. Smith shot himself in the head hours after the freeway shootings, when officers, who knew he was wanted on...

COVINA, Calif. (AP) - Stinging from an acrimonious divorce, a man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party and slaughtered at least six people before killing himself hours later. Three people were listed as missing after Bruce Pardo's rampage - his ex-wife and her parents - and it was feared their remains were among the ashes of the home, which Pardo set ablaze using a bizarre homemade device that sprayed flammable liquid.

The suspected murderer of Yemeni Jew Moshe Yaish Nahari told a court on Monday that he had warned Jews to convert to Islam or leave the country and that if they didn't, he would kill them. The court ordered the suspect, Abdel Aziz Yehia Hamoud al-Abdi, to go for a psychiatric examination to determine if he is competent to stand trial. The lawyers for the accused had appealed that he was mentally unfit and that he had no understanding of what he had done. They claimed that he had recently also killed his wife. Judge Abdel Bari Oqba adjourned the...