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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. -- A teenager was convicted yesterday of criminal harassment in a landmark case filed after one of her girlfriends committed suicide -- the first time the province has filed charges in a case centered on student bullying. A second girl was acquitted of uttering threats after an emotional trial in youth court attended by the mothers of 14-year-old victim Dawn-Marie Wesley and the two defendants. The girls are not identified by name because they are minors. "It's unfortunate that my daughter has to be in the middle of all this. I wish that my family, my community, my...

Violence On TV Can Have Long-Lasting Impact Researchers Follow Children Into Adulthood Posted: 7:21 a.m. EST March 10, 2003 Updated: 9:54 a.m. EST March 10, 2003 Violence on TV could have a long-lasting impact in the real world, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that people who watch violent television as children behave more aggressively even 15 years later. Researchers say the study is one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood. They say the findings hold true for any child from any family, regardless of gender or of...

People who watch violent television as children behave more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood. The effect appeared in both sexes and regardless of how aggressive a person was as a child, researchers found. The study linked violent TV viewing at ages 6 to 9 to such outcomes as spouse abuse and criminal convictions in a person's early 20s. Experts said the results are no surprise, but added that the study is important because it used a wide range of measures, included many participants and showed the...

Union general called innovative and `every bit the match of Lee' MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Ask any schoolboy and he'll tell you Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher, simply using the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates.Not so, says historian Gordon Rhea, who has spent almost two decades meticulously researching and writing about the 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia."There has been a shift in Grant's reputation in the past few years," Rhea says. "I think he has been painted into a corner of being a butcher, when in...

WEST POINT -- The coffee-colored waters of the Chattahoochee River are a bone-numbing 52 degrees. The brisk wind adds a bitter edge to a frosty November morning.At the water's edge, a dozen divers, swaddled in layers of neoprene, with snorkels, regulators and clipboards dangling from their wet suits, make final checks of their gear. They are eager to enter the river, even though one quips, "It's so cold velcro won't stick."The divers are the first of what state officials hope will become a legion of sport divers interested in surveying and preserving the forgotten history that lies beneath Georgia's rivers,...

1,400 Years of Islamic Aggression: An Analysis By Richard C. Csaplar, Jr.Guest Columnist December 3, 2002 Mr. Csaplar, a member of the Regent University Board of Trustees, writes in response to a recent article on the Crusades in U.S. News & World Report. CBN.com – I was very disappointed to see that U.S. News would publish a clearly false article, adopting the world's clearly false, politically correct (PC) view of the place of the Crusades in history. What makes it even worse, the article hides its views under the additional headline falsehood, "The Truth About the Epic Clash Between Christianity...

  A Civil War Book Collection for 2002 by Donald W. Miller, Jr.As a boy and teenager I came to know a woman who was born in 1866, one year after the war ended. She was Mary Lyde Hicks Williams, my great-grandmother. She lived in North Carolina in an antebellum plantation home that General Alfred Howe Terry of General Sherman’s Army used as his headquarters during Sherman’s march through North Carolina. Her father fought for the Confederacy at Fredericksburg, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, and led the 20th North Carolina Regiment in the Battle at Gettysburg. He was captured on the...

GULFPORT (AP) -- Harrison County will not remove the Confederate battle flag from a display on the beach, a majority of supervisors say.Protests began about a week ago. An Alcorn State University student, who has staged a sit-in at the beach monument on the Biloxi-Gulfport line, says he will not leave until the Rebel flag comes down.Anti- and pro-Rebel flag protests over the county's display, which have been staged on and off for years, started again last week after the sit-in began.Last week, the county placed eight flags, including the Confederate battle banner, below the eight American flags that have...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) --  After analyzing six decades of expert research on corporal punishment, a psychologist says parents who spank their children risk causing long-term harm that outweighs the short-term benefit of instant obedience.</p> <p>The psychologist, Elizabeth Gershoff, found links between spanking and 10 negative behaviors or experiences, including aggression, anti-social behavior and mental health problems. The one positive result of spanking that she identified was quick compliance with parental demands.</p>