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  • N.C. teen charged in alleged Houston synagogue plot was playing online 'fantasy game,' parents say

    04/24/2026 9:38:39 AM PDT · by DFG · 31 replies
    KHOU 11 Houston ^ | 04/23/2026 | KHOU 11 Staff
    The parents of an 18-year-old Lexington, North Carolina, woman charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Houston synagogue say their daughter had no means or intention to carry out any attack, describing the online activity that led to her arrest as nothing more than fantasy role-play. Angelina Han Hicks was arrested on Wednesday by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and faces two felony conspiracy counts after investigators alleged she and co-conspirators planned a mass-casualty attack at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Houston. A juvenile was separately charged in Harris County, Texas. Her father, Dannie Hicks, speaking in...
  • Katherine Kersten: A character-killer is lurking in your neighborhood

    02/02/2007 9:25:32 AM PST · by Johnny Gage · 67 replies · 2,114+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | 2/1/07 | Katherine Kersten
    There's a childhood epidemic sweeping Minnesota and the nation. Its warning signs aren't fever or skin rashes. The symptoms are behavioral -- and unmistakable. Consider a recent, particularly virulent outbreak of the affliction in Maplewood, N.J., as reported by the New York Times. In the last few years, out-of-control kids from the middle school have overrun the town's library after school. They routinely mouth off to librarians, disrupt common areas, leave restrooms a shambles and race about, sometimes almost knocking over elderly patrons