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The high school in Salem, N.H., was abuzz last month as a photograph of a topless 15-year-old girl was sent from cellphone to cellphone. School staff intervened, and by the time they met with students in assemblies the next day they had discovered another compromising cellphone photo, this one of an eighth-grade girl. They soon found two more photos of naked or nearly naked girls on students' phones. Two weeks later, a similar incident occurred at nearby Sanborn Regional High School. The photograph in question was of a teenage boy. A report being released today shows that these were not...

A former prison guard accused of giving birth in a motel bathtub and stuffing the full-term baby in the back tank of the toilet was in the Falls County Jail Tuesday, charged with capital murder. Sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Khaliliha Baucom of Lott earlier Tuesday. Bond was set at $200,000. She was named in a sealed indictment returned in December by the Falls County Grand Jury. Baucom was arrested in November on a warrant charging abuse of a corpse, which is a misdemeanor, but authorities said then a capital murder charge could still be filed. She was free on $2,500...

Directed by Roy Royland, this movie (These Wilder Years) has some good actors in it (and familiar names. They are: Jimmy Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, and Dean Jones. But the show stealer is the character Suzie, played by Betty Lou Kiem. It is like Bella, but then it is different, as Jimmy Cagney plays a very rich man, but with something in his past that he wants to find out about. That is a son that he abandoned all responsibility years ago when the pregnant came to him for help... Barbara Stanwyck plays the heroine, but is Cagney the...

Reducing Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortion Through Prevention in Early Childhood © A Proposal By Andrew Kenny Donlan, Ph.D. Few national policy issues are as contentious as abortion, and few so polarize citizens concerned with values and government. Many citizens argue passionately for policies to reduce abortion rates, such as prohibiting late stage abortions or requiring parental and/or father notification. These policies remain divisive, as many individuals advocate fervently that abortion should remain legal and accessible. The lack of consensus among citizens leaves policy makers with insecure ground on which to form politically sustainable public policy. Cultivation of new public policy...