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A UK mom wept in court Thursday as she was cleared of knowingly having sex with a boy who was only 14 years old — after he admitted previously lying about his age to set up a social media account, according to reports. Mom of three Teah Vincent, 32, admitted to initiating sex with the teen after inviting him and a pal into her Glousterceshire home — but insisted she thought he was 16, the legal age of consent in the UK. She had told the court that it was only after they were finished in bed that the schoolboy...

A Connecticut man, apparently in a spat with his neighbor, placed a Craigslist ad inviting strangers to her house to fulfill her "group sex" fantasies, police said. A Connecticut man's alleged Craigslist posting included his neighbor's address.Philip James Conran, 42, of West Hartford, Conn., was arrested in early April for allegedly creating a fraudulent Craigslist ad from a soccer mom "looking for fantasy to be filled." He entered no plea to charges of harassment, reckless endangerment, breach of peace, accessory to burglary, accessory to sexual assault, accessory to disorderly conduct, accessory to criminal trespass and risk of injury to child.

LEBANON PA--Some people have called Meleanie Hain a courageous defender of the Second Amendment. Others have referred to her in online forums as an "idiot" for taking her gun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game in Lebanon in September. Hain said she is "just a mom who happens to carry a gun ... everywhere."

A Long Island woman has been charged with hitting her daughter’s soccer coach with a folding chair because he gave her bad directions to a game, the police said yesterday. The woman, Alicia Vigil, 33, of East Rockaway, was arrested at her home on Monday and charged with reckless endangerment, the Nassau County police said. Ms. Vigil’s daughter plays for the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Soccer Club, Detective Frederick Goldman said. He said Ms. Vigil was upset about directions to Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park that the coach had e-mailed to her before Sunday’s game. She is charged with swinging a...

It is the talk of the neighborhood. Police say a 44-year-old woman killed her 12-year-old son, and then tried unsuccessfully to take her own life. On Friday night, the woman's husband came home from work and found a suicide note in the bedroom of their Basking Ridge home. He immediately called police who found the woman and her son in the basement. Twelve-year-old Jack Kimzey was on the floor dead. Preliminary indications are that he may have been strangled or suffocated. His mother, Denise Volpicelli, was found bleeding in a bathroom in the basement. Her wrists, arms and legs had...

Sorry, but my children bore me to death!by HELEN KIRWAN-TAYLOLR, Daily Mail 08:00am 26th July 2006It's the start of the summer holidays, when millions of mothers despair at how to entertain their children for the next six weeks. What none of them dare say is that they would rather their children were still at school or, frankly, anywhere else. Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a 42-year-old writer, lives in Notting Hill, West London, with her businessman husband Charles and their sons Constantin, 12, and Ivan, ten. Here, she argues provocatively that modern women must not be enslaved by their children. The lies started...

No one seems to have a phrase to describe Arnold's politics. Is he a "conservative," a "moderate," a "liberal" or a "pragmatic libertarian?" None of the above. Arnold Schwarzenegger is... a Soccer Mom! Your prototypical Soccer Mom isn't a hate-the-greedy-corporations Democrat. Heck, her husband is probably a middle manager at Procter & Gamble. She's a "fiscal conservative," in the sense that she doesn't want more taxes and regulation. She doesn't like affirmative action either, since it goes against her sense of fairness and threatens her childrens' future. On the other hand, she doesn't want to be seen as a meanie....

A former Quartz Hill cheerleader and community queen who alleges she was unfairly treated during cheerleader tryouts last year has taken her fight to federal court after an unsuccessful attempt in the California Superior Court system. In court papers filed this week, former Quartz Hill High student Kelly Smith alleges the Antelope Valley Union High School District violated her civil rights when she was rejected at cheerleader tryouts, according to published reports. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Smith, who contends that cheerleading coach Tammy Stewart, allegedly motivated by racial bias, rigged her scores during the...

Republican pollster David Winston was the first to identify the shift from Soccer Mom to Security Mom and he warns 'What these women are looking for is solutions to make their families and children safer. It's about solutions, it's not about partisan bickering'Democratic political consulant Rachel Gorlin agrees, 'We cant criticize what the Bush Administration is doing unless we make it clear that the criticism is toward a new and improved approach -we are turning people off.' It is that kind of impatience with point scoring politics that nettles women like 31 year old Stacy McDaniel, who stockpiles water and...

CREDIT: Grant Black, Calgary Herald Ald. Darlene Heatherington A Lethbridge city councillor -- who claimed to have been drugged and abducted in Great Falls and driven to Las Vegas -- staged the elaborate hoax from the beginning, right down to tossing her keys under a rental car and leaving her personal belongings in clear view, authorities told the Herald. "That was clearly an effort to show that something happened to her," said Cascade County Attorney Brant Light. "By her doing that, it would be consistent with someone attacking her from behind and knocking the keys out of her hand,...