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'DIVORCED and separated fathers say they are being excluded from their children’s lives.

A study by Families Need Fathers revealed almost 80% of dads in North Wales are not adequately informed and involved by their child’s teachers following a break-up with their partner.

The organisation said most dads are not aware of their rights, and appealed for schools to get up to date with custody laws.

One Rhuddlan father, who wished to remain anonymous, said he had not been made aware of parents evenings, concerts or seen his daughter’s school report in over two years.

The 43-year-old, whose child is educated outside Denbighshire in neighbouring Conwy county, said: “It’s not so much the fault of school staff as it is the system, because dads are just an afterthought in general when it comes to parenting.'

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'NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Police confirmed Wednesday that ex-NFL star Steve McNair's 20-year-old girlfriend killed him before turning the gun on herself.

They said they may never know what was going through Sahel Kazemi's mind when she shot McNair in his condominium early Saturday, but interviews with friends led detectives to conclude she was becoming increasingly distraught over events in her life, including financial problems. Police said she also suspected McNair was seeing another woman.

Police earlier had labeled McNair's death a homicide, but awaited further tests and investigation before saying for sure what happened.

At one point, Kazemi told an associate that her "personal life was all screwed up," Police Chief Ronal Serpas said. She had mounting debts and had been unable to sell her car. Her roommate was moving, which would have doubled her rent.'

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'An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a crusading fathers'-rights activist to pay $20,000 to the federal government as punishment for mounting an ill-founded challenge to federal child-support payment guidelines.

Mr. Justice Alan C.R. Whitten ruled that Lucien Khodeir's negligence lawsuit amounted to a delaying tactic designed to forestall him having to pay support orders of $1,230 - including arrears - for Mr. Khodeir's 12- and 14-year-old children.

Several weeks ago, Judge Whitten dismissed the lawsuit after a brief hearing.
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However, Mr. Khodeir said in an interview that the cost ruling is another example of judges shutting the courtroom doors to self-represented litigants who display the audacity to attack a sacred legal shibboleth such as the child-support guidelines.

Mr. Khodeir said that he is in debt "up to my eyeballs," but he will not be deterred from his campaign to overturn guidelines that he regards as unfair, arbitrary and discriminatory toward men.'

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'STANDISH (NEWS CENTER) -- More than two months after Jeffrey Dolloff suffered serious head injuries in an assault at his home, his wife has been arrested.

State police arrested Linda Dolloff, 47, Wednesday afternoon. She is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of elevated aggravated assault and one count of filing a false report. The charges stem from the beating of her husband inside their home Easter morning.

Linda Dolloff was treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen after the incident. She is being held at the Cumberland County jail.'

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'FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A Fort Collins mother is under arrest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy she met through a common interest in "furry" gatherings. Furries are people who dress in animal costumes and get together to socialize.

According to the arrest affidavit, 45-year-old Richael Michels was considered to be a role model for the 16-year-old boy, but allegedly was having sex with him the entire time.

The initial tip apparently came from her husband, who was upset about her growing interest in Furries.

Brandon De Vito runs 25th Hour Anime shop and says most of his friends are Furries. He says they adopt animal personas and make costumes called "fur suits." De Vito says the Furry lifestyle is not about sex at all. He says Furries are harmless, gentle, good-natured people who like to get together to share their common interest.'

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'The "Crisis of Masculinity", as it's often termed, has been brewing a long while. My old boss at GQ, Michael VerMeulen, used to say in the 1990s that the ascent of women meant that men only had two choices, "playboy or drone". But soon even those options were closed: in 2003, after reading Y: The Descent of Men, by the Telegraph science writer Steve Jones, my husband told me mournfully that the crumbling Y chromosome meant his lot would be extinct in another couple of million years.

A few resilient Iron Johns kept beating their chests, sneering at metrosexuals and rushing into the wilderness to wrestle bears. And things started to look up after The Dangerous Book for Boys became a hit, and whittling sticks was once again acknowledged as a useful male activity. But the announcement that British scientists have discovered how to create human sperm from stem cells means it's official: men are redundant.'

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'A former Vancouver resident who won the right to withdraw her 2007 guilty plea to murder in the death of her son has returned to the Clark County Jail.

Kelly N. Meining, 34, arrived at the jail June 19 from the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.
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Prosecutors have re-filed a charge of first-degree murder in the May 19, 2006, stabbing of 20-month-old Bryce Jasper Meining.
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She was sentenced three weeks later to 24 years in prison.
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Her appellate attorney successfully argued that the prosecutor, judge and defense attorney failed to give adequate warning that first-degree murder carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years.'

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'A woman who cried rape after a night of kinky sex with an ex-boyfriend was convicted of trying to pervert the course of justice.

During the sex session Tracy Knowles had been tied to a four poster bed by Alex Warren.

Mr Warren told the court she consented to everything – but the next day Knowles complained to her current boyfriend, another friend and her parents that she had been raped.

Her father, a Ministry of Defence policeman in Bristol, then called police and Mr Warren was arrested and spent 22 hours in custody.

At the end of a three-day trial the jury convicted Knowles by a majority of 11 to 1 of making a false allegation of rape with intent to pervert the course of justice between June 15-18 last year.

Judge Martin Picton told Knowles it was a very serious offence made worse for her by fighting the case.'

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'Kansas City, Mo - infoZine - Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a wire fraud conspiracy involving a scheme between two women to hire a man to assault them. The woman was hoping to force a higher settlement of her sexual harassment lawsuit against a former employer.

Lindsey D. Crawford, 23, of Kansas City, waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith this morning to a federal information that charges her with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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'Charges of rape and kidnapping have been dropped against a married father of two who got more than he bargained for during a romantic rendezvous in the mountains with a stripper.

David Jansen was arrested after a pizza deliveryman stopped by his remote rented cabin in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains and saw a woman tied up on the couch mouthing, "Call 911."

But Jansen claimed all along that the woman was his lover and that she was into bondage, his lawyers providing stacks of evidence that the two had been in a relationship for sometime.

After news of the arrest hit the media, the woman's history of filing false rape claims surfaced and her mother was interviewed saying that her daughter was a notorious liar.
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"This office will not prosecute the victim," Dunn said in the statement. "The evidence would not sustain a conviction for making a false report."'

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'Two Golani Brigade soldiers who were arrested over the weekend for suspicion of raping two female soldiers after spiking their drinks with a date-rape drug were released from custody Wednesday after investigators failed to gather sufficient evidence against them.

The case is expected to be closed without indictments.

"I was certain that the truth would eventually come out; it was a false charge," one of the soldiers told his attorney after hearing of the decision to release him.
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The attorneys representing the two soldiers, Shai Roda, Yahel Ben Oved and Boaz Reuven, expressed their satisfaction with the decision to release their clients.

"There was no justification to arrest them in the first place," Roda said, "it was clear that the women soldiers had fabricated the story.

"I am considering filing a motion to launch an investigation against the complainants and demand that the soldiers be compensated for the injustice done to them towards the end of their military service," he said.'

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'CORRESPONDENCE that could support a woman's claims that Labor MP Theo Theophanous raped her may have been falsified, throwing doubt on the allegations against him.

Two former friends of the woman told a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday that conversations attributed to them in letters and emails from the alleged victim never happened.

The alleged victim told police that on September 10, 1998, Theophanous raped her on the couch in his Parliament House office.

She said that later she spoke to three friends about the alleged assault, but yesterday two of these women said the conversations never happened.'

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'LITTLE ROCK — In a request for commutation of her 12-year sentence, a former Greenwood teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage student admits for the first time that she had sex with the boy.

Deanna Bobo, 41, submitted to the state Parole Board a request for commutation in which she wrote, “I engaged in sexual intercourse with the victim on two separate occasions.”

“This would be first time we’ve heard that admission,” Sebastian County Prosecutor Dan Shue said Monday.

Shue said he would oppose any sort of commutation for Bobo.

Bobo, formerly a special education teacher at Raymond E. Wells Junior High School, was arrested in November 2005 after the parents of a student at the school gave police a series of e-mails, some of them sexually explicit, that apparently were exchanged between Bobo and their son.'

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'Renegades management estimated between 500 and 700 fans filled the ballpark when Tuesday night's game started - there were about another 100 outside - and team officials couldn't have been happier, watching their women-only promotion come to fruition.
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Billed as a tribute to female fans, the planned event would have kept men out of the ballpark until the game was official, providing male fans numerous diversions - from video games to large-screen television sets on which to watch the game - in a party-like atmosphere just outside the stadium gates.
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Late last week, however, county officials sent a letter to Renegades management warning them the promotion likely violated the state's human rights laws, if not the U.S. Constitution. The county owns Dutchess Stadium and leases it to the Renegades, the Tampa Bay Rays' short-season, Class A affiliate.'

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'A woman has been jailed for grooming a schoolgirl for sex, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.

Sarah Wilson, 21, from Camberwell, south London, sent the 15-year-old girl "sexually graphic" messages via mobile phone and the internet for six months.

She was arrested after persuading the "vulnerable" girl to meet her at King's Cross station in January this year.'