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A Texas mom on MSNBC argued that her child "socially transitioned" at age five and would be negatively affected by a recent Texas bill banning hormone therapies.

A sheriff’s office that helped chase down a saucer-shaped balloon that officials feared was carrying a six-year-old boy over Colorado is now considering billing the child’s family hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for a rescue effort that turned out to be needless, Canwest News Service reports: A spokeswoman for the Weld County Sheriff’s Office said all of the county’s on-duty resources were expended in the balloon chase Thursday, which ended when the sliver, UFO-likecontraption floated to the ground without a child aboard. It was later discovered the child was hiding in the attic of his family’s garage. Deputy...

The father of a mentally disturbed teenager who fatally shot two Fairfax County police officers last year was sentenced to more than three years in prison yesterday for illegal weapons possession. Brian H. Kennedy, 50, of Centreville, pleaded guilty in August to weapons charges in U.S. District Court in Alexandria as part of a plea bargain. Kennedy admitted that he illegally purchased an AK-47 rifle by failing to disclose on federal background checks that he regularly used marijuana. His son, Michael, used the AK-47 in the May 2006 ambush that killed Detective Vicki O. Armel and Officer Michael E. Garbarino....