Category Archives: News

The Murder Of The Manchester Model

It reads like a line from a clever whodunnit:

The aspiring actress told an operator: “I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help me. I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death.”

There’s something about the murder mystery that holds a unique place in our popular lore, from Hitchcock to Agatha Christie to CSI. Such mysteries are fun and intellectually diverting…

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Sorry Dear, The Wedding’s Off <eom>

There are plenty of ways to leave someone at the altar, but it’s hard to beat email for efficiency – or tackiness.

Basketball player Richard Jefferson of the San Antonio Spurs recently did the deed electronically with fiance Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols because, he explains:

Sometimes you might write an e-mail to get your thoughts down right.

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The Porn Star Romantic Of Bristol

He had the body of a porn star. He would disappear mysteriously for days a time. Jason Brake even had the name of a porn star.

But Haylie Hocking believed him when he said he was a personal trainer. She believed him when he said that his mysterious weekend trips were just to visit gyms with his trainer clients. And…

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The Uneasy Dichotomy Of The Titan And The Cad

(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)

It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.

A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed…

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Justin And Jordan – Twins Separated Before Birth?

Everyone knows that cheating  can have unintended consequences, but here’s another story worthy of a bad soap opera:

Mia Washington noticed that her infant twin sons had different facial features. DNA testing proved that Justin and Jordan had different fathers.

Mia admits to cheating on her partner James Harrison, who is father to one of the twins.

Sky News

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Bad Karma For Good Rosaries?

A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.

Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there.  The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors,

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Switched At Birth – Not Just A Bad Plot Device!

I remember getting a little plastic bracelet when my first son was born, with his name on it.  My wife and he also had similar bracelets.  We were told that these bracelets were supposed to eliminate any confusion as to whose baby was whose.  Seemed a little silly at the time, like some bad soap opera plot device, but it…

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Little Girl Poca And Our Foster Care System: Why Public Outcry May Not Help Her (5 of 5)

In the first four parts of this five-part series, I have discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents; and 4) An attorney’s perspective on dealing

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Little Girl Poca And Our Foster Care System: An Attorney’s Perspective (4 of 5)

In the first three parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; and 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents.

Today, in part four, I offer an attorney’s

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Little Girl Poca And Our Foster Care System: Why DSHS & The Courts Favor Reunification (3 of 5)

In the first two parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; and 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case.

Today, in part three, I explain why DSHS and the courts tend to prefer reunification with biological parents.

Nationwide statistics show that…

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