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JEDDAH, 8 July 2006 — Cases of Asian maids running away and leaving their employers in desperate situations seem to be a growing phenomenon. We tend to hear many cases of maids being abused by their employers but at the same time there are multiple cases of families themselves being abused and treated inappropriately by their maids.Recently, having only been in the Kingdom for two days an Asian maid ran away from her sponsor’s home. In another case one maid demanded her employers send her back to her home country saying working, as a maid, was not befitting her and...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police have arrested three teenagers after they said a robbery turned deadly when the victim pulled a gun and shot at the suspects Saturday morning. Neighbors heard gunfire at the Paradise Island apartment complex near the Avenues Mall about 5:30 a.m. When police arrived, they found a 16-year-old dead. Investigators said that boy and three others tried to rob a man at gunpoint in the parking lot, but he pulled his own gun and began firing. Aaron Muhammad, 17, was wounded in the shooting. He, along with Oren Louder, 18, and a 15-year-old WJXT is not naming...