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...since the law took effect in July, none of the children dropped off at hospitals were newborns and three of them were from out of state. The reason: Nebraska's law provides safe haven for any "child." It doesn't set an age limit. Some have taken the word "child" in the law to mean "minor," which in Nebraska includes anyone under the age of 19. Others have adopted the common law definition, which includes those under age 14.

OMAHA, Neb. -- Child welfare officials in Nebraska said 11 children -- nine from one father -- were abandoned at hospitals in the state Wednesday night under the state's unique safe haven law. On Wednesday night, one father left his five boys and four girls, ages 1 to 17, at a hospital emergency room. Two unrelated boys ages 11 and 15 were dropped off at another hospital. One of the boys was placed in foster care and the other is still at the hospital undergoing evaluation, reported KETV-TV. Five of the nine siblings who were abandoned Wednesday have been placed...

A 14-year-old Bridgeton teenager was charged Wednesday with murder for allegedly drowning her newborn child in a public toilet last weekend. According to Cumberland County Prosecutor Ron Casella, the teenager, identified in a complaint by the initials "I.S.," was charged with purposely causing the death of her newborn baby boy during a Cinco de Mayo celebration Sunday at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds, in Millville. "She was served with a complaint alleging murder. Specifically, she gave birth to the baby in a public toilet, then removed him from the working toilet bowl and placed him in the tank," Casella said Wednesday....

UPDATE 1-U.S. 3-month bill yield seen lowest in 50 years Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:41am EDT (Updates market action, adds quote) By Richard Leong NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - The yield on U.S. 3-month Treasury bills fell below 1 percent on Monday to levels not seen in 50 years prompted by intense safety bids for cash spurred by the ongoing global credit crunch. Investors were pulling money out of stocks and even the booming commodity market even after the Federal Reserve conducted a fresh round of measures over the weekend to alleviate the credit crisis. Major U.S. stock indexes...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK -- A baby girl was pronounced dead after she was found in a garbage bag on a back porch early Saturday, police said. A 25-year-old woman was being questioned about the infant, police said. The woman was taken to a hospital with a medical problem around 9 p.m. Friday, and a doctor called authorities to say she might have given birth, according to police. They were directed to a Brooklyn home, where they found the infant unconscious around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The baby was pronounced dead at a local hospital, police said. Medical examiners were working to...

Mohammed Rashed, another anti-American terrorist who received safe haven in Iraq Earlier this year, Mohammed Rashed, a.k.a. Rashid Mohammed, was quietly convicted and sentenced in connection with the 1982 bombing of Pan Am flight 830. The attack took the life of Shigetsugu Ozawa and injured several other passengers. Ozawa's father recalled witnessing the murder of his own son in a letter to government officials, saying "At the time, my honest emotion was to wish the plane would crash into the Hawaiian ocean as I had lost the will to live since my son was no longer alive." Rashed belonged to...

In the wake of the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Britain drafted UN resolution 1373 which called on all governments to "Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support or commit terrorist acts, or who provide safe havens; and to prevent those who finance, plan, facilitate or commit terrorist acts from using their respective territories for those purposes against other states." That elementary measure was also a piece of blatant hypocrisy from the British government. For at least a decade, and possibly much longer, it had been covert British policy to provide, in Britain, a safe haven...

NEW YORK MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO FEDERAL SOFTWARE PIRACY CHARGE NEW HAVEN, CT-Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew J. Etre, acting special agent-in-charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced that Hunter Pine, 27, of 33 Gold Street, New York, New York waived indictment and pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. According to documents filed with the court and statements made in court, Pine was a participant in the "warez scene" - an...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2005 – Like their military counterparts, families of DoD civilian employees ordered to evacuate their duty stations due to Hurricane Katrina and whose housing is now uninhabitable can seek temporary safe haven anywhere within the continental United States. The policy, announced by David S. C. Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, in a Sept. 2 memo, affects civilian employees who were ordered to evacuate their official duty stations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama by installation commanders or civil authorities. Affected civilian employees must remain within the geographic area designated by their respective commanders. However, their...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2005 – Military family members ordered to evacuate military installations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama due to Hurricane Katrina are now authorized to select an alternate safe haven anywhere in the continental United States, defense officials confirmed today. David S. C. Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, announced the new policy in a memo sent to the service secretaries Sept. 1. The authority applies to family members whose housing was declared uninhabitable following the hurricane, Chu wrote. Families affected by the policy qualify for up to two months of advance pay, and military family members...

December 10, 2004Dear Pro-Life Friends:The bill to Open Adoption Records S1093 passed the NJ Senate on Monday by a vote of 23-14-3.  The bill now moves to the Assembly where it will be merged with the Assembly version which is Bill A3237.  9/23/2004 Introduced, Referred to Assembly Family, Women and Children's Services Committee. Introduced - 12 pages PDF Format  Identical Bill Number:  S1093  Introduced - 8 pages PDF Format    HTML Format The following action is needed:  (1) Please phone, e-mail, mail and fax your two Assembly members ASAP and urge them to vote "No" on S1093/A3237.  (2) Please phone, e-mail, call and fax Assembly Speaker Albio Sires and...

Pakistan ‘gives Al-Qaeda refuge’ Nicholas Rufford OSAMA BIN LADEN is being given safe haven with the help of Pakistani officials, British security sources believe. Recent intelligence reports coming from remote tribal areas of Pakistan have indicated the Al-Qaeda leader is being given refuge by senior figures in the regional government. America has given Pakistan tens of millions of dollars since the start of the war on terrorism and the hunt for Bin Laden. There is growing impatience in Washington at the failure of the military to capture him. He is believed to be hiding along the mountainous 1,500mile frontier between...

No details yet. Follows on news of Bin Laden associate from Iran/Afghan border surrenders to Saudi authorities.

<p>I've never met Linda Lingle, the governor of Hawaii, but I'm a fan.</p> <p>Recently she vetoed legislation to provide safe havens for newborns so they wouldn't be left to die by mothers unwilling or unable to provide for them. There are thousands of abandoned babies, and many of them have died before being found; any system where these infants could be left at designated venues -- like hospitals, police or fire stations -- could save lives.</p>

Newborn rescued from trash can Monday, April 28, 2003 By WHITNEY KVASAGER, HERALD NEWS A newborn girl is in good condition after she was found wrapped in two plastic bags and left in the bottom of a Sherman Avenue trash can.Three people walking down Sherman Avenue around 1 a.m. Sunday found the baby after following what they thought were noises made by a cat. City and county police responded, and an ambulance took the child to Passaic General Hospital. Police also contacted officials at the state Division of Youth and Family Services, which will determine where the baby stays until...

Sanctuary: A Question for the Church A Study Paper of the Lutheran Church in America < snip ..... > SanctuaryMany churches have become aware of the needs of these undocumented people and have declared themselves to be places of sanctuary. According to the manner in which the immigration law is implemented by the INS at present, the act of sanctuary is to be recognized as an act of civil disobedience against the United States government, not Central American governments. This act protests the refusal to grant political asylum to Central Americans displaced by violence and war, thereby declaring them...

Cape Town - South Africa could be providing a safe haven for al-Qaeda, from where the organisation - driven from European cells after 9/11 - can regroup, raise and launder money, and plan its next terror operation. The American Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that there was mounting evidence of al-Qaeda's presence in SA. Especially after last month's attacks in Kenya, there is growing concern among South African and American law enforcement officials that Islamic extremists, including al-Qaeda, "are using South Africa's open society as a safe haven", the Journal said. The Journal quoted a senior US official as...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) _ An 18-year-old mother who gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom of her father's Brookfield diner and dumped the infant in the garbage has been sentenced to four years in prison. Teresa Perez of Danbury was sentenced by Judge Patrick Carroll in Danbury Superior Court on Thursday. The baby, named Christopher, was born Nov. 23. An employee emptying the trash found the infant several hours after his birth. The child barely survived the incident. His temperature had dropped to 85 degrees and he was treated for hypothermia at Danbury Hospital. He now lives with...