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The chief’s messages were gruesome in nature and illustrated his level of depravity. The chief knew that the person he was communicating with was a child. Despite the fact that he knew the person on the other end of the text was a child, the chief described his sexual desires to him, asked the child about the size of his genitals, and arranged to meet the child in a place “out of the way.”

The caliber of the men that Pope Francis is elevating to be bishops is typified by Bishop John Stowe who bashed the Covington students:  A Kentucky bishop known for pro-homosexual advocacy has published a commentary criticizing the high school boys who marched against abortion in Washington, D.C. for wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats.  “I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students have become a contradiction of the very reverence for human life that the march is supposed to manifest,” wrote Lexington Bishop John Stowe in an op-ed for the Lexington Herald Leader.  Bishop Stowe’s...

The San Francisco Giants fan beaten outside Dodger Stadium on Thursday threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener for the San Jose Giants, a team where he used to be a paramedic before he was left brain damaged in the attack four years ago. "It's a comeback story," said Dan Orum, president and CEO of the San Jose Giants, who faced off against the Bakersfield Blaze on Thursday. "Just to see what he's come through, and to be able to give him something back like this — it's just the kind of thing that resonates with everybody."...

The video shows Marvin Norwood sitting in an interrogation room, speaking to his mother on an LAPD detective's cellphone. "Hey, I got arrested for that Dodger Stadium thing," the 31-year-old says. "I was involved.... To a certain extent I was."

Breakthrough for Bryan Stow - he's speaking (09-22) 11:48 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- In a breakthrough in his recovery from being beaten nearly to death in March, Giants fan Bryan Stow was able to speak several words this week for the first time and carry on a conversation, according to his family's website. The website, "Support4BryanStow.com," said Wednesday that Stow was able to say the names of his daughter and son. Soon afterward, he was able to say his birth date and tell his sister he loved her. And when he was shown pictures of his children, Tyler and Tabitha,...

A key witness in the beating case of Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium died suddenly, apparently of an allergic food reaction. According to law enforcement sources familiar with the case, Matthew Lee died Sunday after eating a salad that apparently contained nuts, which caused the allergic reaction. The coroner has not determined a cause of death, however.

Tim Lincecum intends to donate $25,000 to help Bryan Stow, the comatose Giants fan who suffered a skull fracture in a brutal beating in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium after the first baseball game of the season. “I encourage Giants fans to support Mr. Stow in a positive way and hope there are not any more unfortunate acts between fans in this great rivalry,” the pitcher wrote on Facebook. Stow’s neurosurgeon, Dr. Gabriel Zada, said the 42-year-old Santa Cruz man, a paramedic and father of two, remains in a medically induced coma in an L.A. hospital although his sedative...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A man was convicted Thursday of inseminating his then 16-year-old stepdaughter with a syringe full of his semen, violating rape laws he had pushed legislators to enact. After deliberating for just over 2 hours, jurors found John Goff, 41, of nearby Stow, guilty of two counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery and one count of endangering children. He is to be sentenced Oct. 8 and could face up to 35 years in prison. Goff frowned and looked at his family as the verdict was read. Summit County Common Pleas John Adams revoked Goff's bond...