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SAN DIEGO – A pedophile who was part of the international child pornography ring that exchanged videos and photos of themselves molesting children was sentenced Thursday to more than 467 years to life in state prison. Paul Whitmore, a former counselor for autistic children, was convicted Nov. 30 of 51 felony charges, including committing a lewd act on a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child, posing a minor for pictures involving sexual conduct for commercial purposes and attempting to dissuade a witness from reporting a crime. The verdicts included special allegations of bondage, sodomy, sexual penetration, oral copulation and...

Knocking John Kerry's Gallic roots could be a thing of the past for George W Bush's camp after a claim that the president, too, is descended from the people his supporters call "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". French historians believe that Bush is a corruption of the name Boucher (butcher). The apparent connection was uncovered by a reporter on Le Figaro in a book on French America, Histoire de l'Amerique Française. The paper suggested that was why the president's official biographers never traced the family tree beyond 1850. "Perhaps that is the moment when the Boucher of the old world became the...