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DEXTER, Minn. - The Dexter parents who pleaded guilty to chaining one of their sons to his bed have been denied visitation rights. Thirty-three-year-old Brian Dale Miller and 26-year-old Charity Lynn Miller requested visitation with the younger of their two sons Friday. They both pleaded guilty earlier this month to gross misdemeanor false imprisonment. They were accused of chaining their 5-year-old son to his crib and withholding food and access to the bathroom from him and his 8-year-old brother.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A man plans to pursue visitation rights with the half-dozen black bears that were removed from his farm near Tecumseh last month. Duane Kuhl, 37, was ticketed on suspicion of illegally possessing wild animals. He pleaded not guilty to the six misdemeanor charges at an arraignment Wednesday in Johnson County Court. Kuhl also faces a five felony counts of stealing some 64 hogs. His lawyer, Christopher Ferdico, said he and his client plan to pursue the opportunity to visit with the bears, now being housed at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, and check on their...

(CNSNews.com) - Two homosexual advocacy groups and the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday appealed the case of a lesbian woman who is being denied visitation with the daughter she had with her former partner. Janet Miller-Jenkins is seeking to enforce a court order from a Vermont court that granted her regular visitation with the two-year-old daughter she and her former lover, Lisa Miller-Jenkins, had when they were joined in a Vermont civil union. "My daughter has a right to have access to both of the parents she was born to. I'm in this for her -- she is...

Posted on Fri, May. 17, 2002 Divorce court grants visitation rights - for dog MADRID, Spain (AP) - A divorce court judge has granted visitation rights to a man who missed his dog.The judge in southeast Alicante province said the Spaniard gets the animal on weekends and his ex-wife has custody during the week.In the middle of their tug-of-war is a pint-sized pooch known as a griffon.The couple's name was not disclosed. They were described in newspapers as a middle-aged couple living in the town of El Campello.The verdict was handed down in March but only surfaced this week...