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In second grade, the family agreed to let Daniel legally change his name and at the boy's request, his school agreed to go along with the change, even letting Daniel use the boy's bathroom. "He is very well-adjusted" but still feels stress because he knows not everyone is so accepting, Heumann said. Daniel "was very anxious before coming out at school," but refused the option of keeping the secret, Heumann recalled. "He looked at me and said, 'Dad, I can't. It's harder to live a lie and not as I am truly than to deal with this anxiety right now.'"

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth teenager is dead after police said he tried to break into a house and was shot. The incident happened at about noon on Wednesday in the 1100 block of East Jefferson Avenue. The homeowner said shortly after he returned home from work he heard a noise at his back window. The man said he pulled back the blinds and saw a young man with a crow bar trying to pry the window open. “He was coming in the house. He scared me. I didn’t know what else to do,” he said. “I put...

“So it’s a boy, right?” a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier. See more family photos. Each week the woman asks the same question about the baby with the squishy cheeks and feathery blond hair. Witterick smiles, opens her arms wide, comments on the sunny spring day, and keeps walking. She’s used to it. The neighbours know Witterick and her husband, David Stocker, are raising a genderless baby. But they don’t pretend to understand it.

A woman with 30 tattoos claims she was told to "put a bag over her head" when she went for a job interview. Hayley O'Neil, 23, - who also has 20 body piercings - says was also advised to "stand behind a wall" when she asked a job centre official what post she could apply for. She eventually left the Job centre plus centre in Blackburn Lancs in tear without any interviewers lined up after the advisor concluded: "Who would hire you looking like that?" Miss O'Neil, who got her first tattoo from her mother as an 18th birthday present...

Got milk? South Boston toddler Jadm Moschella apparently thought he’d hit the motherlode Saturday night when, while out to dinner with his parents and stepsister, he reached for a glass and began drinking - a white Russian intended for his dad!

Authorities are searching for a tech-savvy mob of teens who used online social networking sites to terrorize a South Philadelphia neighborhood Saturday night, police said. More than 100 youths arranged via unspecified Internet-based means to meet on South Street near Broad about midnight, swarming the area and leading to a melee that ended only after the mob had hijacked a taxi, pulled a woman from her car and assaulted her, and ransacked a convenience store, police said

A 14-year-old boy died and four other teens were seriously injured early Thursday in Flower Mound when their pickup crashed into a tree and burst into flames. Flower Mound police Officer Paul Boon said the preliminary investigation shows that the 1994 Ford Ranger was westbound in the 3700 block of Flower Mound Road, just east of Furlong Drive, when the driver lost control and slammed into a tree. When firefighters and police arrived about 3:10 a.m., they found the vehicle engulfed in flames, he said. Michael Ryan, Flower Mound's director of community affairs, said two boys, ages 14 and 15,...

Michael Eric Dyson’s tour for his book, Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?) has been busting out all over radio and TV in the past few weeks. In fact there’s been lots of talk about Bill Cosby’s remarks concerning declining morality and poor behavior stemming from a lack of parental responsibility that’s holding black kids back. Mr. Cosby laments the lifestyle of young blacks; from their dress, to their music, their views on sex, their language and their moral ethos in general. He believes that it is the fault of black parents for...

After the wonderful Reagan Library trip yesterday, a caravan of FReepers headed for Rabid Dog's house for a FReeper party. We all enjoyed the great hospitality. On the 101 FReeway heading to the party I encountered a jerk in a tan Ford F150. I will give you part of his license plate: _E6478_. I would like to give the entire thing but JimRob probably wouldn't want that. As some of you know, I have magnetic stickers on my car so they can be removed when I park. We on the right worry about the angry whackjobs on the left doing...