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A South Florida flight attendant has been charged with raping a 10-year-old boy more than 100 times.Padilla-Cruz was released on $200,000 bond. The arrest warrant says the boy, who is now 15, said Padilla-Cruz raped him almost daily between 2007 and 2008 while he was living with the boy's family in Bridgeport. The affidavit says Padilla-Cruz said something would happen to his mother if he complained.

4/24/2008 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- In an environment where the enemy troops conceal themselves among civilians and mountainous terrain, Airmen in the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron provide the warfighter real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data to combat that enemy. The weapon of choice: the MQ-1 Predator. The unit performs this operation jointly with Airmen at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. "We are called an LRE, or launch and recovery element, and the (Airmen) back in the states are the MCE, or the mission control element," said Maj. Lichen Pursley, 62nd ERS commander. Major Pursley explained this meant...

Everyone, Preditors is running their annual reader poll in a number of categories. Please help me boost the ratings for fellow freeper, Marak, and his fantasy book, Elvangar. It is truly a magnificent fantasy story. The poll is at: http://critters.critique.org/predpoll/novelsf.shtml and the book name is Elvangar by Richard S. Tuttle. Just click on the dot next to the book's name. Thanks a bunch!