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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school´s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.

Baton Rouge Police on Friday (July 15) said they have arrested a fourth person, a 12-year-old boy, who they say was involved in a plot to kill police with handguns stolen from a city pawn shop. Police said they worked with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to to identify the boy. They had already arrested three other people -- an unnamed 13-year old, Antonio Thomas, 17 and Malik Bridgewater, 20.Officials said on Tuesday that they had not yet identified who the fourth person was, but that they believed the person still had two handguns that were unaccounted for...

12 Christians Brutally Executed By ISIS Refused to Renounce Name of Christ, Died Praying, Reciting Lord's PrayerBy Leah Marieann Klett Oct 02, 2015 01:46 PM EDT   Twelve Christians have been brutally executed by the Islamic State, including the 12-year-old son of a Syrian ministry team leader who had planted nine churches, because they refused to renounce the name of Jesus Christ and embrace Islam. The martyrs were faithful to the very end; right before one woman was beheaded by the terror group, she appeared to be smiling slightly as she said, "Jesus!" According to Christian Aid Mission, a humanitarian group...

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A state trooper may have fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in the back after his partner fell while chasing the youth and the partner's gun accidentally fired, a lawyer for the boy's family said. Attorney Joel Sansone refused to identify his sources for the account of the death of Michael Ellerbe, who was shot while running from police after a car chase Tuesday in Uniontown, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. "I wouldn't be saying it in public if I didn't think it was a good enough source," he said. State police Capt. Roger Waters and...