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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Hollywood police said officers have arrested a woman who is accused of killing her 77-year-old mother. Carmen Santiago's decomposing body was found on Tuesday at a home on Funston Street in Hollywood. Police arrested Santiago's daughter, 39-year-old Martha Walker, on Wednesday. Police said Santiago and Walker got into a fight that ended with Walker using an ax to strike her mother in the head.

A California judge has ordered a teenage mother in Visalia to stand trial on a murder charge for allegedly killing her infant daughter by spraying her face with Lysol to stop her from crying. Detectives testified Monday in Tulare County Superior Court that Shyla Chapman told investigators she was frustrated her 4-month-old daughter wouldn't stop crying and sprayed the cleaner into her face. Chapman said she was upset that no one helped her care for the baby and was seeking psychiatric help after giving birth. Chapman is scheduled to be arraigned on March 19 on charges of first-degree murder and...

Karachi - A Pakistani man sold his 10-year-old daughter for $500 to pay for his eye operation, a police official in the southern province of Sindh said on Friday. The father Noor Mohammad had agreed to hand his daughter over to a fellow villager, Gul Mohammad Kalohi, once she reached puberty, according to Abdul Hadi, district police officer for Badin, about 250km east of Karachi. "It is a shameful incident and has taken place," said Hadi. "We were informed about this incident from a complaint made by a relative of the father." Police have completed their investigation of the case,...

In the last two years, international organizations and Asian nations have stepped up their efforts to eliminate sex-selective abortions, which have created a massive dearth of girls in many nations over the past 20 years. With the new year, some new statistics have been released. The result of these efforts? The sex imbalance continues to worsen, not improve, thanks to the ever-increasing spread of cheap abortion and ultrasound technology into more and more areas of China, India, and other countries. One expert who spoke at the United Nations estimates that up to 200 million women and girls are missing worldwide...

Some slimebag DUer is promoting Flickr pictures of a girl who is supposedly Bob Corker's high school-age daughter Julia kissing another girl and partying in a skimpy outfit. Most of the commenters on the thread realize that this kind of beyond-the-pale crap will blow up in their faces. Here's the thread. I won't link to the pics. I wonder who alerted the moonbats about this stuff?

10/6/2006 - LACKLAND AFB, Texas -- Traditions run deep in the military, and for this father and daughter, traditions are what brought them together in Iraq. Col. Steven Dreyer, 4th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group commander, at Camp Victory, Iraq, reunited with his youngest daughter, 1st Lt. Kathrine Dreyer, 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Balad AB, Iraq. The visit marked not only the end of Colonel Dreyer's final deployment, but also the beginning of Lieutenant Dreyer's first deployment. During the visit, the colonel presented his daughter with the family's American flag. "This flag symbolizes our family's dedication to serving in the...

Groups, daughter endorse JeffersonBy JANET MCCONNAUGHEY Associated Press writer Published: Oct 3, 2006 U.S. Rep. William Jefferson delivers brief remarks Monday after receiving endorsements at his campaign headquarters in New Orleans. Jefferson, an eight-term congressman, has endorsements including more than a dozen political groups, including the Democratic Executive Committees of both Orleans and Jefferson parishes, 18 ministers, and 19 labor organizations, including the state AFL-CIO. Associated Press photo by BILL HABER NEW ORLEANS — U.S. Rep. William Jefferson’s initial endorsements this year are led by his daughter and five other state legislators, a former legislator and one of the city’s...

Dennis and Stephen Henley filling sand bags together. Department of Defense photo. CAMP RAMADI -- It has been nearly four decades since Dennis Henley filled a sand bag in a war zone. In 1967, he was a Marine Corps corporal in Quang Tri, Vietnam. This September while visiting Camp Ramadi, he found himself once again holding a sand bag, but this time the chore proved to be a very special, emotional moment as the individual standing beside him with the shovel was his youngest son, Marine Corps Corporal Stephen Henley. DennisÂ’ 20-year-old son Stephen is in his final days of...

LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson's only daughter, Hannah, married blues-rock guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd this weekend. Gibson, 26, and Shepherd, 29, of Benton, La., exchanged vows in California on Saturday, People magazine reported on its Web site. Shepherd's albums include "Ledbetter Heights" and "Live On." He proposed to Gibson on New Year's Eve 2004 in Rome, according to The Times of Shreveport, La. Gibson, 50, and his wife, Robyn, have seven children. Hannah is their oldest child and only daughter. The wedding came almost two months after Gibson, 50, star of the "Lethal Weapon" movies and director of "The Passion...

GREENWICH -- Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's daughter, Emily, has gone out on the campaign trail for her dad and contributed more than $4,000, but the 19-year-old couldn't vote for him. Emily Lamont's vote in Tuesday's primary battle between her father and U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman was thrown out yesterday after the Democratic registrar of voters in the family's hometown, Greenwich, determined she was ineligible. "Her vote was rejected because she is not enrolled in a party," said Sharon Vecchiolla, Democratic registrar in Greenwich.

'A second shot rang out. Both men were dead. Now I could never be known as Frank Sinatra's daughter' By Douglas Thompson (Filed: 23/07/2006)Page 1 of 9In February 1947, Frank Sinatra, cooler than his eyes were blue, flew into Havana to perform for an audience not only tougher than his usual crowd, but far deadlier. The engagement would change Sinatra's life, and do much to shape, in the years that followed, the world's idea of who he was. The Cuban interlude, a darkly Runyonesque affair, rich in sex and menace, would have an equally lasting effect on a woman who,...

UIJONGBU, South Korea (Army News Service, July 6, 2006) – Two Camp Red Cloud Soldiers saved an elderly woman and her handicapped daughter when a sandwich shop caught fire just outside the camp's front gate July 1. Pvt. Reid Erickson and Pvt. Russell McCanless Jr. of Headquarters and Headquarters Support Company, Special Troops Battalion, were first on the scene when New York Sub sandwich shop caught fire. “We walked out of 7 Club to see whether or not I could do handstand pushups, and when I was doing them I noticed something behind us,” Erickson said. Standing and turning around,...

San Juan, Jul 4 (EFE).- Four men who fired off guns on a beach in southern Puerto Rico were killed by an angry father who mistakenly thought his daughter had been struck by one of their shots, police said Tuesday. Ernesto Albarran, 19; Cristian Flores, 21; Armando Castro, 25, and his brother Angel, 20, fired shots Monday night on La Jungla beach in the town of Guanica, according to the preliminary investigation. Adan Torres Quiñones noticed the gunplay and thought his daughter had been hit when he saw her throw herself on the sand to dodge the bullets. Enraged, he...

Saddam's Wife, Daughter on Wanted List Saddam's Wife and Daughter, New Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq Among 41 on Iraq's Most-Wanted List By BUSHRA JUHI The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's wife and eldest daughter are among 41 people on the Iraqi government's most wanted list, along with the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a top official announced Sunday. The photo of the daughter of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Raghad, is seen on the Iraq government's new list of wanted outlaws at a press conference, Sunday, July 2, 2006,in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi National Security Advisor Dr....

Saddam's daughter on 'most wanted' list By Jim Muir in Baghdad (Filed: 03/07/2006) Saddam Hussein's first wife, Sajida Tulfah, and his daughter Raghd appeared yesterday alongside the new Iraqi al-Qa'eda leader on a list of 41 fugitives most wanted by the Iraqi government. The list includes high officials of Saddam's former Baathist regime as well as Islamist activists in the violent insurgency. Abu Hamza al-Muhajer Rewards are on offer, with the biggest bounty $10million (£5.4million), for Saddam's erstwhile right-hand man, Izzat Ibrahim, who has eluded capture for three years and apparently survives on the run despite numerous rumours of his...

If Dakoda Dowd suffers from stage fright, it will be understandable. She is just 13, a teenager who will play in her first LPGA Tour event beginning Thursday. She has been looking forward to this day for months, but nothing can prepare her for that first tee shot -- nothing, of course, but her mom, who will be just outside the ropes, beaming. And that's what this is all about. "If I get nervous, I'm going to look over and see my mom smiling," Dakoda said. "Once I look over and see her, all the nerves will go away." Cameras...

CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Mar. 21, 2006) -- It may sound crazy, but Marine First Sgt. Steven P. Crawford was looking forward to deploying to Iraq. After all, it’s not often a father gets to reunite with his daughter in a combat zone. Crawford was reunited with his stepdaughter, Lance Cpl. Beverly A. Thornhill, at Camp Fallujah where she spent the past seven months. Crawford had a chance to see his daughter and what she had accomplished when he went to visit a detachment of his Marines there earlier this month. Thornhill, a 20-year-old embarkation specialist assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion...

OAKLAND — The 25-year-old daughter of Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was charged Monday with driving under the influence, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Sonia Bustamante, a University of California, Berkeley graduate who lives in Oakland, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday after an officer spotted her driving erratically on eastbound Interstate 580 near the Grand Avenue curve, court records show. She failed a field sobriety test and registered a 0.16 blood-alcohol level — twice the legal limit — on the first of two Breathalyzer tests, authorities said. A second Breathalyzer registered...

My granddaughter, Emma, is about to be born. Prayers for her and my daughter are appreciated.

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48639 Friday, February 3, 2006 Sadat gave daughter in marriage at 12Camelia tells how top officials conspired to falsify her age Posted: February 3, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A daughter of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in a recent television interview her father used his power to give her away in marriage illegally at the age of 12 to a man who later abused her. Camelia Sadat told Dream 2 TV in Egypt that the president at that time, Gamal Abd...