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Quebec students mark 100 days of tuition protests

Tens of thousands of students marched through the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. Tuesday's protest came after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation intended to end Canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever. The peaceful protest turned more violent in the ...

Fla. man arrested after shooting at neighbor

Police say an elderly man shot at his neighbor during an argument, then locked himself inside his home. The Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/KcBjYA ) reports shots were fired around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday. The standoff lasted until the man peacefully surrendered early Thursday morning. Police negotiators talked to the man for several ...

W. Mass. teacher charged with assaulting student

An East Longmeadow teacher charged with assault for allegedly pushing a 13-year-old student she thought had laughed at her has pleaded not guilty. Barbara Galanek was released on personal recognizance after her arraignment Tuesday in Palmer District Court. The Republican newspaper (http://bit.ly/JTxR6R ) reports that she is a teacher at ...

Deputy foils suspect's attempt to use fake ID

An alert Hillsborough County Jail deputy foiled a suspect's attempt at using a fake name after his arrest on petty theft charges. Authorities say the deputy recognized 23-year-old Arturo Zertuche from a Crime Stoppers website while he was being booked into jail Monday. Turns out Zertuche was wanted on attempted ...

Franciscan Files Tell Stories of Priest Abuse

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Franciscan Files Tell Stories of Priest Abuse

Sexual abuse at a Santa Barbara, Calif. boarding school is detailed in more than 4,000 pages from the confidential files of nine Franciscan religious brothers who were accused of abuse. (May 23)

South Carolina AG promotes Children's Advocacy Day

South Carolina's top prosecutor is holding an event which he hopes will promote the prevention of child abuse. Attorney General Alan Wilson is giving the keynote address on Wednesday at the first ever "Children's Advocacy Day" at the Statehouse. The day also includes presentations from several state lawmakers and Veronica ...

APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story

Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...

APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story

Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...

Sheriff: Suspect linked by DNA to missing CA teen

Police are intensifying their search for a Northern California teen missing for more than two months after arresting a man on suspicion of her murder and kidnapping. Since 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared on March 16, volunteers and authorities have searched fields, open spaces and reservoirs near Morgan Hill, a semi-rural ...

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2011 file photo shows the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution as Warden Randy Blades, right, stands in the observation room, in Boise, Idaho. The Associated Press and 16 other organizations are suing the state of Idaho to force officials to allow media witnesses to view executions in their entirety. The lawsuit, filed in Boise's U.S. District Court on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, asks a federal judge to require the state to increase witness access before the scheduled execution of convicted killer Richard A. Leavitt on June 12. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)

5 Western states shielding part of executions

A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat. The ruling established what was expected of the nine Western states within the court's jurisdiction. A ...

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