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ST. PETERSBURG - The mother of the 5-year-old girl who was handcuffed at school by police has withdrawn her daughter from Pinellas public schools and is moving out of state, superintendent Clayton Wilcox said Monday night. The development was the latest in a bizarre saga that began Friday, when a videotape of the handcuffing was made public. Since then, wrenching video images of the wailing kindergartener being handcuffed by St. Petersburg police have raced around the globe, airing and re-airing on television news shows in the United States, Great Britain, Spain, around Asia and beyond. On Monday morning, the Largo...

Teens try to burn cross on man's lawn Sara Leaming Staff writer Several teenagers were caught by an Elk, Wash., resident Sunday while trying to burn a cross in his front yard, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said. The man heard a noise outside his home Sunday morning in the 39000 block of North Hardesty Road and looked outside to see a cross on his front lawn, said sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan. The man ran outside and saw three teenagers riding away from his home on bicycles, and two more teenagers approaching, Reagan said. The resident stopped the two...